How to switch your web host

There’s so many reason you want to change or switch your web host. It could be you are not satisfied with your present web host performance. It could be you are not happy with the services that your web host company provides. The response time for technical support or customer service is too long. Or you have found a less price solution for your website. And finally you make decision to change web host. And want to do it by yourself.

Sure every website has files where placed and saved at your web host.
And now you need to transfer all those file from old web host to new web host.
The question is:
How to change your web host without loosing your file?

Well you can do this by through this way:
To transfer your web pages files is to copy the source code by right clicking on the page as you see it when you visit the site and select ’view/source’. It will come up on Notepad. Select ’file/save as’ and save to a place of your choice as an HTML file. To do this, at the bottom of the box just before you save it, it will say ’.txt’. Change the drop menu to ’all files’ and then change the ’.txt’ at the end of the name you’re saving it as to ’.html’, then save it. And now you have a complete page ready to load to wherever you want.
If you have a less pages say 10 pages it is easy to do this with this way but if you have a lot of pages you may need takes more time.

Another way to transfer your file completely you can use FTP utility to download all files to your computer from your web host. If you are using Dreamweaver, use the GET command to copy all your files. If you are using Frontpage, use the import feature to make a complete copy of the old web site.

Contact the domain name registrar this is the place where you registered your domain name and change Domain Name Server (DNS) or Name Server information to your new hosts DNS information. Your site is going to downtime while your DNS record is being changed through the world’s WHOIS servers. It will takes time for hours to waiting the process done.
You need to maintain any existing services set up on your old domain name such as email forwarding, web pointing and website hosting until the transfer is complete to ensure continuity of your service. You can check the progress of your domain name transfer by using a Domain Name Search feature such as Whois.net. Once the transfer is completely You can see the details change from your previous Host to your New Host

When you are sure your domain name has been transferred, upload the files to your new Web
Host.Using FTP utility or dreamweaver or frontpage software.

How to obtain a free blog

Blogs are easy to set up and maintain.No matter what the reason as a background people here start to blogging for fun or to express their tough and to make money.You can to write,post and publish content that interest you via blog.

First lets talk about free blog You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com. Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, While Wordpress.com is a free open source blog engine.Both blog engines have good reputation and unfortunately I don’t have comparison data on the speed of getting indexed by search engines.

You can get a free blog at either Blogger.com or Wordpress Then, familiarize yourself by choose template,set up and try to posting your first post on your blog. And also try to test the features and widget that come included with it
Even though these blog engines are good. In my opinion wordpress is better since there’s features such as Trackbacks and also more advanced widget,template etc that develop by people around the world.

Here a common words that you will find in a blog world.

Pinging :
Pinging is actually the service to notified a certain aggregator whenever your blog is updated so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website.you will find a such service at pingoat.com or pingomatic.com

Permalink
Permalink is stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource
locator) that direct to an individual post that you make in your blog

Trackback
When you post about something while contain others blog link, your post will
show up in their “trackback” section it is usually you can find at a comment section.

Actually the above feature is useful way to gaining traffic.
I will talk about this later on.
It will better if we can discuss and share the many ways we can gain to make money online for more via blog.

How to find the right affordable web hosting

To find the right affordable web hosting, you need to find one that offer what you really need. Your website or blog will be important for you, so take your time and compare the features, capabilities, and costs from several different web service companies. However usually you get what you pay for when it comes to web hosting. But before you make a decision please consider and ask yourself a few questions about your needs

Here some example question that may useful before you decide to choose web hosting provider:

Do you aim for a business or personal website such a blog?
What kind of customer service and technical support do you want?
How much data transfer or bandwidth usage that you need?
How much disk space that you need?
What about security and privacy?
When your business grows will the provider be able to handle your needs?
What kind of website tools, control panel, and user interface are offered?
Is support for e-commerce, domain name registration included?

The important think is Reliability in terms of uptime and performance Make sure that the companies you are evaluating have 100% (or close to) uptime, fast and consistent performance.

Make sure that high security and privacy features are included. Spam and virus filtering must be part of the basic service. Check out where the company is located. This may affect performance and technical support capabilities. Security and privacy are important especially if you going to use your website for a business. .

If you still not clear you can call or email them directly to get clarification. A good web hosting provider will be glad to spend time with you in order to get your questions answered and possibly gain your trust. You see the sample question as above and may you can add some question by your self. I hope it will help you to choose and find right affordable web hosting.

How to determine The File Size of Your Web Site?

If I am not a mistake actually There’s a standardization how to measure the file sizes. All files that contain image, content, web pages etc are measured in bytes or kilobytes.

Usually we find a words “ bytes “on floppy disk, hard disk, bandwidth, data transfer, file size etc and As I posted before Disk space is the amount of bytes space to keep your file at your site. While Data transfer or usually we call this bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse and visit your site.
Most floppy disks hold around 1.4 megabytes of information.
You will find also various sizes of information on USD flash disk, hard disk, etc where most of these stuff measured start with big bytes usually we call Giga bytes.Sure most of all related with computer and internet stuff including your website.

And the question is what byte is?
I will explain for those who did not know about byte.

First you need to understand how file size is measured.
The smallest unit on a computer is a bit.
One bit is one electronic on or off pulse.

And then if 8 bits strung together make one byte.
One byte of information can put a letter such as D on your monitor.
If you put 1024 bytes together and then you have one unit of information called a kilobyte.
If you Put 1024 kilobytes together and you have a megabyte. (Most floppy disks hold around 1.4 megabytes of information).
If you Put 1024 megabyte together and you have a Gigabyte. (Most hard disks hold various size gigabytes of information).
And so on

Back to the question how to determine The File Size of Your Web Site?
It is a simple to determine your total site file size just right click on the root folder where your web site is hosted you will find an file size information this will not only give you the total site size but also how many files and folders are contained in your site.
And now I think you want to know The File Size of Your Web Site.Just check it out.

How to check your web host technical support

Most web hosting provider comes with Technical support and usually it is one of service package that web hosting company offer. And you see their advertise technical support function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week), all year around

You will be surprised at how often things go wrong at the most inconvenient of times such as your site shutdown suddenly.
Especially you have a good traffic or you run biz website.If your site shutdown means you loose a potential buyer or other think loose google adsense ads being displayed briefly you loose your money during inconvenient of times.

That’s why you want to know what the reason and want the problem fix and addressed immediately.

What kind of customer service and technical support do you want?

I want to know does its technical support function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 360 days all year around.I will not accept a host which does not have staff working on weekends or public holidays. Because a host advertises that it has 24/7 support does not necessarily mean that it really has that kind of support.

You can Test the water by calling at midnight or Test them out by emailing at midnight and on Saturday nights, Sunday mornings, public holiday etc. Check out how long they take to respond your call or email. And also you need to see if they are technically competent. And also if there’s problem you can also log down what problem is and how many times that needed to fix the problem.

Sure you need a solid technical support to back up your website and to back up your business and you would not want to buy web Host provider Company that run by people who only know how to sell and not fix problems.

Fill and launch your website

After you decide what your website do and chose your website name and find reliable hosting provider and all preparation was done. And now you ready to Fill and launch your website. You need software to create and build a website.

I usually use Microsoft FrontPage or others software out there. These software packages you can find for free at internet just go to google.com by searching with keyword “ free website builder” , “ free website creator “ “free website software “or you can try other key words that related with website and software.

You can go also and find free software that related with website build too at download.com with keyword the same as above.

Based on my experienced actually there’s a lot hosting company that offer website builder software include in their service. It just make easy for you to make a basic website and fast. if I am not mistake we call “fastastico” and seem it is almost there on every web host provider as a part of their service.

To test the water try to make one pages as start and once you feel comfortable you can upload and launch your content that you prepared before.

Expressing your personal opinion thru blog

Before you create the blog, you need to figure out what topic the blog will focus on. So what you include in a blog? Practically anything that comes in your head and mind.Blogs are an excellent way of expressing your personal opinion.There’s no almost topic barrier, it could be from discussion about news, sport, hobby,carrier,experience and others many think.

Think about your skills or hobbies that you're really good. You might not be a mechanic, but if you're really good at working on motorcycle modification on the weekend and you like to do it, that would make a great blog post. If you can think it, you can type it and you can publish it.

You don’t have to worry to build a blog even you are a dummy computer like me. Blogging does not any programming skill and complicated code.It is free to express your opinion, for fun, business purpose etc or to make a comment even a complain and make a discussion among bloggers.Perhaps we can create friend or network and stay connected with big wide world cyberspace out there.

For me blogging much like website and give me world wide reach. And it does not require much cost. With almost no barrier to entry, blog grow everyday and presently according to technorati it is almost a hundred million blogs on the internet today and still growing day by day.

Decide what our website will do

People want to establish website with various purpose. It could be for fun, business, self expression, make money online and many think.
But if you willing to make money with your website and plan to build one I provide a simple question for you before you decide to getting started. There are some questions that you must ask to your self before you start to run your own website.

Here some example question that may useful before you decide to getting started:

Will your website sell a product that you produce or service that you render?
Will your website sell a product or service for others company in which you will get a commission for?
Will your website be an informative content that make money thru advertisement that being displayed on your website?
Or will your website combine all these money making ideas that integrated into one site, Means will your website sell a product or service that you or others company produces and combine with advertisement that displayed on your website ?
Etc

You see the sample question as above and may you can add some question by your self.
I hope it will help you to prevent bias objective for your website purpose and good luck.

Make money online with Content based website

Beside affiliate program, online investment, online trading etc .One of way to make money online is simply by building a content based website that provides information to your visitors. With this way your website becomes a resource to internet users that looking for information that you provided.

As we know Content is extremely important if you wish to have Google adsense, and the other large search engines such as yahoo,altavista,google etc will index your site properly. The more pages you have on your site the more pages you will have indexed in the search engines. While if there’s ads that being displayed on your website this means, more content = more traffic to your site = more clicks = more money.

As long as you have a unique content and useful information for your visitor you have a chance to make money online with Content based website. Sure writing your own content takes a lot of time. If you happen to be a good writer, or even a poor writer you might decide that you'd rather write your own articles. Since you write your own content will be entirely unique. If you take content from a free content site, who knows how many websites have those same articles on them. What I am trying to say is that if you write your own articles, you have a better chance of getting hits from search engines and no need to worry about search engine penalty due to duplicate content.

And sure it is need takes time to learn how to be a good writer. You can learn by doing or alternate way is you can hire ghostwriter to create good niche article for you. Your goal should be get people visit to your website to read and come back to your website to read again another your post or article that you publish.

I will discuss about ghostwriter at another post

Benefit to write content with visitor friendly.

Actually there is almost no barrier that your blog should have, so what you include in a blog? Practically anything that comes in your head and mind which means you can write about whatever you’re interested in and sure you need to figure out what topic the blog will focus on

When people visit your blog,they are not looking for just information.But also looking for information they can obtain easily.So it is very important to add a human touch to your blog content posts.It will better if you write your content as if you’re having a conversation to your own friend. and you should not write content as if you’re preparing a speech for audience.

It will be nice if your content should visitor friendly. Just imagining you’re talking about a certain topic with your personal friend And don’t forget to try to add funny comments in your articles It will make for your readers happy,A great sense of humour your visitor feel suitable and relax once they read your blog.It will make your visitor think of you more as a personal friend rather than stranger.

It will better to write blog with visitor friendly as an equal friend to your visitors, write to them as if you’re talking to your own friend to attract more visitors as well as to keep your current visitors coming back for more.And in the end if you got more friends mean you get more traffic.And especially if your blog integrated with google adsense or other affiliate program means you have a chance to get more income for your pocket plus a new friend that you get from your blog.

So why not to write your content to be visitor friendly?

Basic Website abd blog Promotion

Once you are starting a web site for online business. It involves many stages of creative, technical and professional skill. Start from domain registration designing a web site to create the page layout, load file, image, content, and hosting the web site.

The web master should have professional skills to not only create an interesting web site but also should to promote the web site online. It is almost not different with real life once you need to register the business, find an office and recruit the employee for the real business. Every step that takes for business concern is should plan and managed.

Search engine optimization and search engine marketing are important factor where webmaster and web promoters should pay attention on these factors. Search engine optimization is a technique to make a website made known to the general public through, link building, directory submission etc. when the site is indexed and entered into a directory of a search engine it is saved in the search engine data base and when someone searches for related words which relates to the web content of this site the site name and details come up in the search page result page.

While Search engine marketing is a technique which involves marketing tactics which helps in website appearance in search engines. Email subscriber, newsletters, press releases, promotional ads etc are also considered marketing techniques. So basically both techniques to help your online biz with no stop point and continuously.

Perfect web hosting company

You will fin a “ promised “ A hundred percent guarantee server uptime. Back up by 24/7 top notched support. Unlimited disk space and bandwidth. A latest advanced feature and technology ready. And come with cheap price. It is may Perfect web hosting company that you looking for.

I wonder if there’s any perfect web hosting company out there. Even if you are prepared to pay high price for your hosting needs. It does not guarantee that your host is perfect. In other side you can probably be sure of is that you will not get top-notched support if you only pay $10 a month for web host. At that price, which web host company provider can afford to provide enough service and help to cater to all its customers?

In another case many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting space that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not need this much space. Have you ever calculated just how much disc space your web site uses? Have you ever monitor just how much bandwidth your web site usage? Do you really need an expensive hosting solution for your web site? Most of my friends’ sites only use less than 5 megabytes for their sites. Therefore it is not necessary to purchase a large amount of space for a small site.

I think wind up settling my needs to trade off between price and reliability that I willing to live with.
And web host package price still in my main consideration. How about you?

Perfect web hosting company

You may already notice about a promotion from webhosting company such as A hundred percent guarantee server uptime. Back up by 24/7 top notched support. Unlimited disk space and bandwidth. A latest advanced feature and technology ready. And come with cheap price. It is may Perfect web hosting company that you looking for.

I wonder if there’s any perfect web hosting company out there. Even if you are prepared to pay high price for your hosting needs. It does not guarantee that your host is perfect. In other side you can probably be sure of is that you will not get top-notched support if you only pay $10 a month for web host. At that price, which web host company provider can afford to provide enough service and help to cater to all its customers?

In another case many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting space that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not need this much space. Have you ever calculated just how much disc space your web site uses? Have you ever monitor just how much bandwidth your web site usage? Do you really need an expensive hosting solution for your web site? Most of my friends’ sites only use less than 5 megabytes for their sites. Therefore it is not necessary to purchase a large amount of space for a small site.

I think wind up settling my needs to trade off between price and reliability that I willing to live with.
And web host package price still in my main consideration. How about you?

Basic Web and blog Design

After you have a domain and space for web host. Another thing that you should consider is your website design and also this is one of parts to generate more website traffic for you.

Below some basic point to consider once you build your website design.

Your website loading time should fast.
Obviously most people don’t want waiting too long just waiting your website present. Make your website loading time as fast as possible.
And your visitor (or may your potential customer) will like it.
Minimize the use of images, or picture and as much as possible make your website neat looking. It is also help your website loading time faster. You may use simple eye-catching icons or bold font with color to draw your visitors to a certain page or part of your website. It even makes your website content more understandable and readable to your visitors.

Make your website look simple and professional.
Prevent crowded pages on your website. You can try to use span stuff.
Please make sure that there are no broken links within your site. Before uploading your site to your web server,

That’s the basic point once you design your website. Generally the key is fast,simple and readable for your visitor.

What is Web Hosting?

After you purchased and have a domain name now you must have web hosting or hosting provider for your website. Web hosting is an internet hosting service that allows people like you to make their websites available on to World Wide Web. So once people reach and find your website on the internet, no matter how they reach you on the internet, you are available on the internet because you have a web host. Web hosting companies provide space on a server and allow access to the website through cyberspace.
Shared hosting
Shared hosting is the most basic web hosting service and you has the least control over the technology and less feature that hosts on your site. Since many websites reside on the same server. , the costs are shared between the individuals on the server, that’s why the basic web hosting service is relatively cheap.
Dedicated hosting
Once your website become large and your website traffic strain up and increased you need to upgrade to increase your host space, bandwidths and more data transfer. At this point you will want to purchase a dedicated server. Dedicated hosting is for people that want to have their own server. You get to specify the type of hardware and feature that you want and do not share space with any other websites. Additionally, you can host several sites on the same server depending on space capacity.
Reseller hosting
A third type of web hosting is called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting allows individuals to sell their hosting space. The benefit of reseller hosting is that you get to sell the space. For those starting up an internet business such as website design, website programs etc.

Once I visit your website.

Due to so many reason ,Often I as searchers can be impatient when surfing through sites in the Internet. So Once I visit your website your website loading should be faster. And I don’t want to wait too long otherwise I move to a different site easily where link attached from search engine result.

Once I visit your website or blog, I expected to look for something that’s relevant to my needs. If my eyes ended in a particular site through advertisements, then I would expect to see something related to that ad.

If I need some stuff and decide to buy thru online and once I go to a shopping cart.
I expected to find photos with high quality, a variety of applicable views and lastly, a concise and clear description and the important thing is costs.

If I need info I expected to find to locate a website content that is consistent with the keywords that I enter into search engine.

But sometimes I do not find what I need in a website or sometimes I have a hard time going around the site.

That’s my behavior during online and I guess you online behavior almost the same.

What is data transfer?

I will explain for those who did not know about data transfer. Data transfer or usually we call this bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse and visit your site. Usually Host Company offers the data transfer that include in their package base on a month basis.

Once you try to find and buy host provider service company for your site. You need to look data transfer that they offer. Data transfer is on of important parameters that you consider once you choose hosting provider Service Company.

Ideally a typical traffic requirement it is depend with your website or blog traffic needs.
You need enough data transfer or bandwidth that suitable with your site. It should be not too less or too high. Please always look for details on how much traffic the package allows.
I know it is hard to estimate a bandwidth for your website usage especially if you have new site and don’t know what to do.

To give you a rough idea of the typical traffic requirements of a website, that are not video or software achieve to download use less than 1GB of bandwidth per month. However your traffic
Requirements will grow over time. Since search engine will index your pages more and you have more inbound link and your visitor increase. So that practically you need more data transfers to back up your site.

Start with small data traffic amount and then upgrade the bandwidth later on once your site grow and your website traffic increased. You can monitor the traffic usage at your website admin control panel.

What is disk space?

I will explain for those who did not know about disk space. Disk space is the amount of bytes space to keep your file at your site.

It is almost the same with data transfer .Once you try to find and buy host provider service company for your site. You need to look disk space that they offer. disk space is on of important parameters that you consider once you choose hosting provider Service Company.

Ideally a typical disk space requirement it is depend with your website or blog needs.
You need enough disk space that suitable with your site. It should be not too less or too high. Please always look for details on how much disk space the package offer.I know it is hard to estimate a disk space for your website usage especially if you have new site and don’t know what to do.

To give you a rough idea of the typical disk space requirements of a website, that are not video or software achieve, most sites need less than 5MB of web space.But if you have a plan to upload more content,picture,video or other file in a regular basis.You need to consider to add more disk space.

It happened if you a run a blog where you add content,picture or video frequently automatically you need more disk space in order to keep this file on your website.By the way You can monitor the disk space usage at your website admin control panel.

What is your website or blog name?

Did you call your friend with completely her/his name?
Yup…I guess you call just her / his with short name. So do I. It is also implementing in cyberspace, I am too lazy to typo a website with long name sometime it is too hard to remember. And I guess you so.

I strongly recommend if you have planned to build a website or blog your domain name should:

Easy to remember
Short
Catchy
And I possible try to place keywords in you domain name.

We can look some of the most popular websites out there (that I think you are already know and familiar with them) such as google.com yahoo.com lycos.com alexa.com ebay.com etc.
Their website names are easy to remember short and catchy while even their domain names have anything to do with what website about.

However presently it is getting difficult to find and register a short domain names. Since most of them are already taken by others. But in another hand beside a primer domain extension likes dot com you always have alternate option to buying other domain extension name such as dot net, dot org dot biz etc

Try to list your domain names plans as much as possible say it ten names. Please make sure that your domain name is available after you had domain names that you decided.

Why You Need to Purchase a Domain Name?

I recommend you need to purchase your own domain name. For those who wants making money online via website or blog.Indeed I do not encourage you to use free domain unless your objective of creating a blog is just to share your journal with your friends. Or just to learn and familiarize how to build a website.

But there’s an exceptions if you're short on cash for hosting and purchase a domain name. But you are eager to get started to make money online, you might give to try blogger.com as your start and then just integrated your blog with google adsense since Google will give out AdSense accounts to Blogger user as long as your blog content follow their rules.So if you're looking to get started with AdSense and not spend much money, Blogger is a great way to get started.And the best for all it is free.And once you get enough money it is better and still you need to purchase your own domain name.

There’s a reason why you need purchase your own domain name. It is important that you choose the right one. Your domain name will be your blog’s address on the Internet, A domain gives the public a hint of what they will find at your site. If the domain name relates to your or your company’s name, it makes your site that much easier to find.

If you get it free from a web hosting company, your domain name will
Includes the company’s name sometimes there’s web Host Company’s advertisement on your free website.

By Purchase your own Domain Name, Your domain name is easy to remember; Your visitor always know how to get to your site, and another benefit is You can easily customize and modify your look ,design ,layout and web template.And of course you get more reliability and reputation if you have your own domain name