Do it quickly. DreamHost is offering 1000 Geocities members two years of free hosting with free domain name registration. All you have to do is to add this below string to any of your Geocities page
“I’m off to DreamHost!”
Did you notice the policy change? Look before you settle for a free .co.cc domain. It is not free for life anymore. You can still register it for free but only for a year. Then you have to pay for renewals. Here is what they have to say in the FAQ:
1. Can I use my free domain forever?
Yeah! That’s official. You can find it from Yahoo Geocities Help page:
Why is GeoCities not accepting new customers?
We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year.
This is a very common question asked by bloggers using Google Blogger platform. I don’t know exactly why. Personally I like the navigation bar. It gives you quite a few options:
Sometimes when you comment on a WordPress blog you get a reply email from the blog author thanking you for your input. As a first time visitor it catches the eye of the reader. It shows that the blog author is taking care of his readers. And if the blog consists a bit of quality content, there is every possibility that the reader will subscribe to it. Thus increase your blog community.
Most of you register & verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools pretty soon as you start a new website. But have you verified your site with the similar service from Yahoo? As a newbie you often miss the point for using Site Explorer. Registering your site with them will allow you to access detailed stats & a few cool tools to optimize your site for Yahoo search. Detailed stats include:
I have previously written a post about updating Twitter automatically with every new blog post that you make. I was using Feedlr service & quite happy with it. But recently I noticed that my last blog post wasn’t showed in my Twitter update. So I checked Feedlr & saw it suspended. I visited the Feedlr blog. There I found that Feedlr was having repeated posts problem due some bugs in the code. The admin of Feedlr is now planning to rectify the code & migrate the site to the Google App. But it will take time.
While browsing I have found this cool free tool that can get something out of your blog scrapers. Go & register your site with Tynt Tracer. You will get a line of code that you have to add before </body> tag of your blog page. You can easily find it in WordPress by going to footer.php file. Now run “Test My Script” to see if it has been correctly installed. You are done. Now when a blog scraper copies any part of your content a link back to your site is added to the copied content. The linkback can be removed manually. But very few scrapers would care to see & do so. Check the stats & find out who copied from you.
Perhaps most of you know that favicon doesn’t help directly in SEO. And that’s very true. But that doesn’t mean that you should neglect this tiny part of your site design.