One thing you should be familiar with if you buy domains is the Whois directory. This is a worldwide listing that has every domain that is registered. There is no way to register a domain and not be listed in Whois. There are, however, options to safeguard your privacy. In this article, I’ll be explaining what Whois is and discussing what it means for you. The Whois Directory Whois is a database...

There is a myth that registering or renewing domain names for many years would actually help its ranking, and it looked like a good one to accept, but unfortunately we have a problem, it isn’t. Length of a domain registration won’t have a good impact on its ranking. Google employee John Mueller suggested in a Google Webmaster Help forum thread that Google doesn’t look at the length of...

Unless they have PageRank! Most of the people forget this main thing, they think getting a backlink from .edu or .gov domain name is just enough for them to get good rankings, but they should have good link authority and they should be linked by reputed sources. You would have seen so much of services online providing .edu and .gov backlinks, but the trick is, you’ll have backlinks from .edu...

Downtime is such a hard word for Bloggers and Webmasters. We fear it next to those Panda and Penguin updates. But do you know a site’s downtime could affect its ranking? We are going to discuss this issue from Google’s view, like how they consider a site’s downtime for its ranking. Because you might have downtime for 10 minutes, 30 minutes or even for a week sometimes. Your Website’s...

Earlier we told you why you should use suPHP on your server for better Security. Now we’ll tell you how to verify whether they are using it or not. Well you can simply ask your Hosting Support for that, but we can also know this simple tip too. To verify whether your server is using suPHP or not, create a simple ‘php info’ script. Create a file named ‘phpinfo.php’ in the...

We all know the sad story about Google Apps (Hey wait! You know about Posterous’s story too right?) and I can see so much of eager faces to know the best alternative for it. We are quite lucky to get support from none other than Microsoft and their awesome mail platform – OutLook.com. So if you need a custom email address like pradeep@hostlater.com, yes something like yourname@yourblog.com...

We all know the sad story. Posterous.com will be gone forever on April 30th and the worst news is we have PostHaven from its co-founder, where we have to pay $5 per month to blog, remember the days we used to do like that for free? Moving Content From Posterous to WordPress.com WordPress.com is a blog web hosting service provider owned by Automattic, and powered by the open source WordPress software. First...

This is really unfortunate. Posterous is a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, later acquired by Twitter in March 2012. Its simple interface to blog about things you like/admire made it popular within a short period of time. Sachin Agarwal said that their full focus will be on Twitter, so they’ll be completely shutting down Posterous on April 30th. That means, you can neither view...

If you are a webmaster then probably you’ll be knowing about “Pingdom” and how popular it is. It is a service that tracks the uptime, downtime, and performance of websites.They monitor websites from various locations to track the downtime and monitor the website. I have been using Pingdom for checking my blog loading speeds and it was quite helpful. But not many of make use of their...

Even I was not aware about this term few months back, then I actually start to use this on our servers. suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and a setuid root binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter. suPHP is nothing but Secure PHP, so thus...