Recently I across this post from Digital Inspiration and thought of sharing this with you. Matt Cutts (Head of webspam at Google) said:

Websites “don’t get any PageRank boost from having an .edu link or .gov link automatically. If you get an .edu link and no one is linking to that .edu page, you’re not going to get any PageRank at all because that .edu page doesn’t have any PageRank.”

John Mueller (Google Switzerland) also added the statement saying Google will “generally treat all links the same – be it from .gov or .edu or .info sites.”

So next time, when you are building .edu and .gov backlinks, do see their link authority and PageRank.

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1. HostGator

Among various VPS hosting providers these days, HostGator serves to be one of the top service providers. Its Linux VPS hosting offers main entry, thereby meaning that you can easily install the difficult applications and personalize it fully. The best part about the hosting is that you actually experience the benefits from a top class web host and that too at affordable rates.

The VPS plans offered by HostGator start at $19.90 per month. You can even choose to expand the memory, space and bandwidth as per your requirements by choosing the appropriate plan. Also, all plans have 2 dedicated IPs, full root entry as well as Virtuozzo Power Panel. Some alternatives are also offered to purchase more of the committed IP addresses as required.

2. LiquidWeb

LiquidWeb is a hosting company focusing on enterprise and corporate website hosting services. The company mainly focuses on dedicated hosting, VPS plans and Servers utilising cloud technology. Their Managed VPS Hosting line is the ideal solution for clients who require the control of a dedicated server matched with the affordability of shared hosting, and the features of The Storm® Platform. Each VPS package supports 100 percent network uptime, monitoring and a 30 minute response guarantee.

3. Linode

You can also take VPS hosting from Linode, the company that is built upon a very simple premise i.e. of offering best possible services and tools to all those who need better hosting. Linode VPS truly means freedom. This way, when you hire their VPS plans, you get almost everything right from root access to kernel. Everything is managed by their simple and effective control panel.

4. KnownHost

Last but not least, Known Host is a popular name again when it comes to taking VPS hosting. With unlimited domains on every VPS server, complete root access, efficient and fast support by the professionals, Known Host offers Virtuozzo powered power panel. Seamless upgrades are provided with no problem of downtime and you enjoy amazing managed VPS hosting solution.

5. InMotion VPS

Then comes InMotion hosting whose VPS delivers amazing performance along with control and flexibility of dedicated server. VPS hosting by InMotion is great for the businesses that expect fast growth, huge site traffic and that want dynamic sites. The service provider partitions high performance server in various virtual servers each being there with reserved RAM and CPU resources. VPS solutions by InMotion offer affordable and effective hosting for the businesses which need the features like dedicated mail server, high amount of control and custom firewall.

So, with a number of hosting companies out there offering the best of VPS solutions and plans, you need to pick up the best of all and use its services for your advantage.

This article is written by Ankit Pandey. He is Proud owner of Link Building Firm SeoEaze. SeoEaze is known for Quality SEO services like Social Bookmarking Service & More.

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Your Website’s Downtime and Ranking

So when Google crawls a webpage and its current status is unavailable (downtime), it will have two scenarios then. Like whether your site will eventually appear soon or if your site is gone forever.

#1 – If your site is down for some minutes or maximum a day or two.

If this is the case then Google might not harm your site in any way because they can understand it as a normal downtime caused on most of the blogs. So Google crawls again, and if your site is up then the rankings will be normal, nothing touched.

#2 – If your site is down for several days, a week or a month.

But due to some laziness or some inactivity, your site might be down for some weeks or even months. At this point Google has no other option then to drop it from the search results at least until they can fetch again, find it, index it and then return it, just like good old days.

USEFUL: Be The First To Know When Your Site/Blog Is Down

Below you can see how Matt Cutts handles this question, just like the we explained above.

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To verify whether your server is using suPHP or not, create a simple ‘php info’ script. Create a file named ‘phpinfo.php’ in the public_html folder of your site and insert the following code:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Now you need to load the file in your browser and in the top section find the line ‘Server API‘.

If it shows ‘CGI‘ then your account is on a server with suPHP.

If it shows ‘apache‘ then you are NOT on a suPHP server.

With this information you can know the servers normally have PHP running as CGI (not Apache).

(Tip via HostGator Support Portal)

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#1 Go to Windows Live Admin Center. Here you can manage and customise Microsoft Services, here we are going to use OutLook. After setting up your domain name, you can create user accounts, customise the look, and you can enjoy full features. Click the “Get Started” link to proceed.

#2 Now here you need to enter your domain name. For example, spradeep.com. Now choose the mail service for your domain name. Select the option “Set up OutLook.com for my domain” and click the button “Continue”.

#3 Now you need to assign a domain administrator. You can either sign in using your existing Microsoft Account or you can create one and sign in. Since I already have one I’m using that, if you don’t have one you can create it easily.

#4 In the next screenshot you can see this. After confirming the details, click on the button “I Accept”.

#5 Now that’s all. Things are perfect! Now what you need to do is, update some records in your DNS Manager. If your domain registrar allows DNS management, then you can do these there or else, you can do this in your hosting account. Just copy the things on the screen to be done, now send a request to your hosting account (Support team) to do them. Simple. It will be quite tedious for us to update these records one by one, you can request the support team to do these for you instead.

That’s it. Now you can go to your Account settings and create User accounts. Enjoy OutLook! Do let us know in comments if you face any issues. Thanks.

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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 you need to backup your Posterous Spaces. I explained it clearly on this tutorial. Refer that. After downloading the backup, just open the ZIP file. It contains all your images, audio, and video files.

IMAGE CREDIT: WORDPRESS.COM

They also have the directory containing a web page for each of your posts. It includes a file named wordpress_export_1.xml (Posterous XML file). You’ll use this file to import into WordPress.com.

Signup or Log Into WordPress.com

If you don’t have a WordPress.com then sign up for one. If you already have one account, just log into it. Go to your Dashboard, then “Tools” -> “Import”. Now from the list of Blogging services, select “Posterous”. By this you can Import posts, comments, images, video, and categories from a Posterous export file.

Now just upload your Posterous XML file and we’ll import the posts, comments, categories, images, and video into this site.

That’s all. After the import all your content (includes images, posts, comments, etc) to WordPress.com blog. Welcome to WordPress.

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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 nor edit your content. That’s it!

How to Backup Your Posterous Space?

Since we got less time (April 30th deadline) we can backup our Posterous Spaces now and work on our new Blogging space right now to avoid SEO effects. Fortunately there is a simple backup option will help you to get a zip archive of your spaces. It’ll be delivered to your email. If you visit that backup link, you’ll come to a place like this where you can find the ‘backup’ option for all your Posterous Spaces.

You need to click the “Request Backup” button to generate the backup. This backup process won’t affect your Space. Also this backup will only include your current content, you need to take another backup if you make any changes to your content or if you get any new comments.

Depending upon the size of your content the backup time varies. They’ll mail you the backup when it is ready to download.

That’s all you’ll get a mail with your backup content ZIP archive. I know it hurts, but we need to find some other good Blogging space now. Questions rises whether they are shutting down because of Twitter or because of Posterous co-founder Garry Tan’s new site “Posthaven”. You can operate your blog there for $5 a month.

USEFUL: Move Your Blog Content From Posterous to WordPress.com

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Pingdom’s Website Monitoring service is free to signup and you don’t need to have your credit card near by.

I guess you can understand the basic things to be entered, just make sure to enable the option to notify you when your site is down. The screenshot of the dashboard is shown below, you can get the uptime and downtime stats there.

Key Features

• Email, text & iPhone alerts
• Uptime & Response time reports
• Multiple check locations
• Public & email reports
• Multi-step transaction monitoring
• Root cause analysis

When something happens your blog/website you’ll receive alerts via email and SMS. Getting updates via SMS and Email helps us to reduce the downtime by doing the needful. Do check this useful tool and let us know your opinions in the comments below.

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According to WordPress, it is one of the recommended security measures..

Hosting is more secure when PHP applications, like WordPress, are run using your account’s username instead of the server’s default shared username. The most common way nowadays for hosting companies to do this is using suPHP. Just ask your potential host if they run suPHP or something similar.

Using suPHP the file permissions can be set more securely, you can still being able to execute scripts on your site. In the suPHP environment, cPanel user name will have the needed permissions to read, write, and execute all the files.

If suPHP is enabled on the server then the PHP scripts will be running under the ownership of the account user. You can ask your Web Hosting whether they have the capacity to run suPHP, if yes, then you can enable it. Also do ask them whether you’ll have any drawbacks (just in case). You can also verify whether your Server is using suPHP or not.

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Those online businesses can only function effectively if they individually have a web address – a domain name. A domain name is a unique identifier that is entered into the URL or address bar of a web browser that directs users to any desired website of their choice.

You want to start an online business – and you’re wondering how to get a “.edu” domain name? Have you being wondering how they register “.edu” domain names?

Well, EduCause.edu is a non-profit organization which handles all “.edu” registration. Unlike “.com”; “.net”; “.org” which all has numerous registrars; the sole accreditation of “.edu” registration is only awarded to one organization – Educause.edu.

You want to know how you can get a unique “.edu” domain name with them? Make sure your institution meets all the eligibility requirements.

Below is a simple way to register “.edu” domain name with EduCaus.edu–

1. From your web browser, go to EduCause.edu and click on the “Request a New Domain” link situated at the top-most part of the website.

2. Now, from the newly opened page- scroll down to the far end of the website and input the .edu domain name of your choice in the search bar just after “.edu Domain Name Availability Lookup”. After writing down your desired domain name – click on “Check Domain”.

3. The next page that will come up will determine whether the domain you chose in step two is available or not. If the .edu domain name isn’t available – you would be required to input another domain name and click on “Check Domain” again.

If the domain name is available – you will be taken to another page called “Domain availability results”.

4. Still on the new page – scroll down to the end of the page and click on “Request This Domain”.

But before you click on it, there is some important information you have to understand, which they’ll need you to fill on the next page after you click on “Request This Domain” button.

Below is some of the important information you will need to get yourself aquatinted with before you proceed:

Institution Name

This is the legal name and address of the group or institution requesting to get the .edu domain name. The institution must have a legal name and must be affiliated to one of the accredited agencies that EduCause has given the right to give out “.edu” domain names.

Password

You will need to set an initial password that you’ll use in creating and managing your .edu domain name.

Administrative Contact

This is the name of the person or group who is responsible for the administrative details of the “.edu” domain name.

Technical Contact

This is the name of the person or group that is responsible for the technical details of the domain name.

Billing Contact

This is the name of the person or group who responsible for the billing on the domain name.

Primary And Secondary Domain Name Servers

You’ll have to direct your domain to your website. The name servers should be set appropriately so that it will respond to queries from your domain name.

5. Having read the above, click on “Request Domain Name” and continue with the domain name registration.

6. Input the institution name, state and address for the “.edu” domain and click on “search”.
The post-secondary institution that you’re affiliated with must be a verified and accredited agency of the U.S Department of Education. If your agency isn’t listed when your “search” queries returns – it means, you cannot create a “.edu” domain name.

If the list returns with your agency’s name on the search query – click on the institution’s name.

7. You’ll be prompted to create a password for the domain name. Enter the password of your choice and click on “Next”.

8. Just as I have being able to explain above – you’ll be asked to enter the name of an “administration contact”; “Technical contact”; and “Billing contact” – I have explained them above.

9. Enter the appropriate details of your Primary and Secondary Domain Name Servers (DNS). Contact the hosting company you’re currently using – so that they can help you out with the proper settings.

10. When you’re through, a verification email will be sent to you to confirm the activation of your “.edu” domain. EduCause.edu will review and go through your application to see whether you or your group are competent enough to get approved or not. You may likely get a reply from EduCause.edu after 1 week of registration.

Following the above steps will make it much easier to register a ”.edu” domain name from the internet.

This article is written by Onibalusi Segun. He writes articles for www.opendoorloan.co.uk. If you wish to write for HostLater, kindly contact us.

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