Full Website Backup through cPanel

There are a few different kinds of backups that you can do through cPanel. A full website backup, as its name suggests, backs up your whole website. This includes the webpages you have made, any content management programs you are using along with their settings, any databases you are running, and any emails that are…

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Alexa Rankings

A friend of mine use to often brag about his “Alexa Ranking”. He was so proud of it … I was happy for him, but I didn’t really understand what it was. And I wondered if Alexa ranings are so good – why didn’t I have one? To sum it up, Alexa (owned by Amazon.com)…

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Chitika Ads – Initial Impression

I heard about Chitika ads around November 1, 2009 and decided to try them out on one of my other websites. They are similar to adsense in the fact that you get paid for when ads are clicked. They are different in the following ways: Chitika ads do not pay you for multiple clicks from…

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PayPerPost Review

While researching how much the average blogger earns and how they earn it, I ran into PayPerPost.com . The name pretty much says it all – when your website is selected by advertisers, you get paid to post the information they request on your blog. It sounded interesting, so I signed up. Here is what…

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An Honest Review of Google Adsense

If you are thinking that Google Adsense may be an easy way to monetize your already-popular website, you could be right. If you are thinking that Google Adsense could be an easy way to earn money from home with little or no effort – you are flat-out-wrong. Adsense does not make a very good “Get…

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Hostgator – I always come back to you

Being a full-time webmaster for a wide variety of websites, I have had the oportunity to work with many webhosts and registrars.  I have found that the contents included in a package and level of service can vary greatly.  And you don’t always “get what you paid for.” Although it has problems, HostGator is the…

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$34.99 For A Domain?

I could barely believe it the first time I saw it. A few years ago my favorite registrar, Yahoo!, (who gets domains through Melbourne IT) upped their domain name price to $34.99 per year. In a betrayed outrage, I began transferring my domains to a registrar much like GoDaddy. A few years later it appears…

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