This post IS NOT what you should be looking for when finding a blog hosting company… It is determining which one is best. It’s often hard to find blog hosting reviews on the internet as the people refer to “web hosting” as the correct term…
So judging from the reviews on 2 different websites that let people give web hosting ratings - WebHostingRating.com (I’ll actually be using two web hosting reviewers (WebhostingGeeks) for this analysis of the Best Web/Blog Hosting.), I’ll give you a recommendation based on 3 criteria:
- Package Inclusions
- Cost
- Customer Support
Package Inclusions:
All of the web hosting will try to sell you on their “extra” gifts to make you buy their products.. What you need to be concerned about is: How much bandwidth and disk space do I get?
On both of the reviewing sites, it seems that InMotion hosting seems to be the most reliable and scored a 98% on one of the sites, and 5/5 for user ratings on the other site. The people seem pretty happy with what they have bought and give a recommendation to new people buying hosting.
Cost:
Cost is another factor that you need to consider when choosing the webhosting for your blog. Webhosting Pad charges $3.96/month for their services and give you a very nice arsenal of “gifts” (free domain, unlimited bandwidth, etc.) with their hosting.
If you choose some large budget hosting, hope that you develop a site that can generate that back in revenue 
Customer Support:
This is simple: If they have bad customer support, don’t use them. I guarantee that you will need them once or more.
The two sites that I used for this review also have some great Cpanel tutorials at their web hosting tutorials section. (WebhostingGeeks also has a web hosting tutorials section).
Last but not least, web hosting awards always let you see the “Cream of the Crop” (so to speak) of what web hosts really stand out from the others. Although they shouldn’t be the only factor in choosing your blog hosting, it doesn’t hurt to at least scan them over for details.
What blog host do you like the best?? Why??
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Its a lot of work writing articles for a blog - anyone that has one will know what I am talking about. It’s great to have some articles reach the top of google and get lots of traffic from it, but others simply vanish behind the “Next Page” button at the bottom of your first page.
So what this post is doing is question whether bringing back old articles from your early blog stages (1 mos.-2 mos.) would be a good idea.. So that your new subscribers can get some articles that you have written, without having to go looking for them.
You would simply just copy and paste, perhaps deleting the old post to avoid duplicate content. The content would be delivered to all RSS Subscribers and Email Subscribers… Most will think it is a new article, the others that have read your blog for a while will know it’s a duplicate.
What your thoughts on bringing content, “Back from the Dead?”
Since everyone will be enjoying the long weekend on Labour day (Labor Day for the readers in the U.S.A), I’ve decided to create a filler post telling everyone about the content lineup we have. This post will give you an idea of what you can expect this first week of September.
Post Lineup:
- Tuesday: Best Of August 2008 Posts
- Wednesday: Choosing The Right Blog Hosting
- Thursday: Reuse Reduce Recycle (Resurrect your old posts??)
- Saturday: Weekend Wordpress Security Tip
Now, regarding the “Advertising and Guest Posting” trial I did on a couple of blogs, I said that there would be a detailed analysis at the end of the month. I am currently working on that and it will likely be up next week. Don’t forget to subscribe to this blog’s feed however, because the password for the Ebook/Post (I haven’t decided which.. Suggestions?) will be delivered to you in the post footer.
This report will include:
- Subscribers at start vs. Subscribers at end
- Pageviews at start vs. Pageviews at end
- Advertisers at start vs. Advertisers at end
- Backlinks at start vs. Backlinks at end
- Graphs … Perhaps even a piechart!
- Anything else I think is important
So hopefully you have a great labour day and I will see you back here Tuesday.
I really haven’t seen a tool that can do as much as this DVD Software says it can. I’ve used free solutions, online solutions which either produce a low quality end-product, or just don’t have the availability of the formats I would like.
Aside from the long list of audio and burning formats that it can convert to, it has a video encoder that supports almost any type of format that you desire. For example, do you want that .MOV file turned into a .mpg file? Simple.. Just used the MOV converter thats also built into the program.
Don’t take my word for it, heres a picture of the interface of the application:
I haven’t personally tested it, but it looks like it could be really useful for anyone that edits videos/music.
There is a tag in your Wordpress header file that generates it’s version number, every time someone loads the page. A simple view of the source code will reveal that you have Wordpress 2.x. If you’ve chosen not to upgrade because you like 2.3’s interface or have some plugins that will not be compatible, your don’t want people (ahem, hackers) knowing that do you?? I thought not.
The Simple Fix:
- Download your current theme’s “Header.php” via FTP, or edit it in the Wordpress Theme Editor.
- Open it up in Notepad++ (That I Recommended Last Post) and find the line that says:
meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <php bloginfo(’version’); >” / <!– leave this for stats please –>
- Delete it and save your file.
- Your Done! Wasn’t so hard was it?
I actually knew about this fix for a long time, but I even still had it in my theme. Doh!
Affiliate links are hard to get clicks on. Rather than giving you the money for referring the potential visitor, they just type the URL in and save that money for themselves (I’m even guilty for that). I however, have found a plugin that allows you to change any URL you wish to a desired name. For example: I can link to my friend Yan’s blog (Thoushallblog.com) by creating a custom redirect for him.
Original URL:
http://thoushallblog.com/why-you-should-invest-your-time-money-for-a-custom-wordpress-theme/ (A Guest Post Of Mine)
My Custom URL:
http://bradblogging.com/go/yan
Not only will this plugin convert your links, it can disguise affiliate links too, to seem more natural. The plugin is called GoCodes and is free for Wordpress. I highly recommend it for any outbound URL that you would like to shorten/cloak.
Personally, I would rather click on a link that looks customized and short than a 20 digit referral number. (Perhaps it makes the link seem more natural??)
The only downside to this plugin?? Rick-Rolling (No.. The Gocodes Link in this post is not a rick-roll link.. I was thinking about it though) got a whole lot easier
I saw this new plugin in my blog dashboard this morning called, “Liz Comment Counter“. It’s description is as follows:
Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has.
Now, I know the author took a while to create the plugin to open up to the Wordpress community (And to get some trackbacks/links am I wrong? ) which I think is good. But seriously.. What is the use of it?
It’s supposed to replicate Feedburner’s interface to show R.S.S Subscribers (which helps you in turn, gain them to your feed - read more about that here) but what does the plugin accomplish? More comments? A better reputation because people have chosen to say their piece on your post?
If I saw that on Problogger or Shoemoney.. I would say something along the lines of:
Wow. They have over 1 million comments* over a course of their entire blog life…
* - Not actual number, just my exaggerated estimate.
I think this plugin would result in sidebar/above the fold clutter that really doesn’t help your readers or visitors see or accomplish anything. Whats your thoughts?
