Domain Hosting Tips

July 20, 2015

Who can register .BUZZ domain names?

Anyone can register .BUZZ domain names.

These domain names can have up to 63 characters. You can’t register domain names with special characters such as & and #.

The .BUZZ extension does support Spanish IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) characters.

Whether you’re a blogger, journalist, advertising manager or product marketer, .BUZZ is the place online to build excitement for your brand, product, service or startup. It’s also a fun Web address for sites dedicated to memes, entertainment news or gossip.

Domain Registration Information

General Availability

Beginning April 15, 2014, at 15:00 UTC, customers can register .BUZZ domain names on a first-come, first-served basis.

Bulk .BUZZ registration is supported during General Availability.

Multiple applications with different registrars are resolved on a first-come, first-served basis during General Availability. If you aren’t able to secure the domain name, we’ll refund the registration fee.

Make sure you go here to get the latest scoop on registering this domain name.

July 16, 2015July 16, 2015

Do you want your website to be penalized?

Black Hat and Hidden Content – These techniques are usually short lived. Search engines are constantly updating their ranking algorithms to eliminate the effectiveness of black hat practices

Black Hat — In SEO, black hat SEO refers to using deceptive techniques to fool search engines into ranking a site higher than it deserves. These techniques are usually short lived. Search engines are constantly updating their ranking algorithms to eliminate the effectiveness of black hat practices. Search engines ban sites that use black hat techniques.

Hidden Content — This is another technique common among black hat SEO. This practice involves placing content on a Web page that is hidden to normal Web viewers, and is only visible to search engines. The hidden content artificially increases search result rankings. Search engines have gotten very good at detecting these type of techniques. Using hidden content can cause your site to be penalized, including exclusion from search results.

Why should I choose LuckyRegister for my SEO services?

We know there are plenty of SEO tools out there, but as the world’s number one domain registrar, we know the Web inside and out. We’re passionate about this stuff, so we designed our SEO services to be as powerful as they are easy to use and cost effective. Got questions? Our award-winning, 24/7 support team is just a phone call away.

Search Engine Visibility works however you need it to. Our SEO tools analyze your website and help you identify search terms and keywords that can increase traffic on your website. Once you’ve placed the search terms and keywords in your website’s content, use our one-click site submission tool to submit your site to the world’s top search engines. For more detail, you can analyze and optimize your site with a wide variety of SEO tools, from our keyword generator to our site map creator.

July 14, 2015

Content and Links For Search Engines

Content

When you look at a Web page, you see the page displayed on your computer screen. You can read the text, look at the images, and figure out what that page is about.

Search engines don’t see Web pages the same way a person does. In fact, search engines cannot actually see at all, at least not visually. Instead, they read the HTML code of the Web page, and the actual text that it contains.

All the search engines can read is text. They also can look at the HTML code (which is also text) of the site to try and get some clues about what that text means or which text is most important.

Search engines can sometimes use the HTML code to get some clues about other elements on the page, such as images and animation. For example, search engines can look at an image tag and read the alt text attribute, if the page author supplied it, to get an idea of what the image is.

img src="cowpicture.jpg" alt="Picture of a cow"
However, this is not a replacement for actual text content.

Links

Web links from other sites are also important clues that search engines use to figure out what your page is about, or how important your page is for a particular search query. In a search engine’s view, a link from one page to another is basically a “vote” for that page.

If you have a page about cows, and a local farmer’s Web page links to your page from their website for more information on the topic of cows, that is an extra vote for your page.

How to create great alt text?

ALT Tags – If your browser cannot display an image from a website, then the ALT tag displays the description of the image as text. ALT image tags also make it possible for the visually impaired to understand the images on your website. The ALT tag should be only a few words describing the content of the image. ALT tags contribute to the keyword count on the Web page. So, using relevant images with appropriate ALT tags can increase the overall keyword count on your page.

Google Image publishing guidelines

Don’t embed important text inside images
Tell Google as much as you can about the image
Give your images detailed, informative filenames
Provide good context for your image
Create a great user experience

The alt attribute is used to describe the contents of an image file. It’s important for several reasons:

<img src="puppy.jpg" alt=""/>

Better:

<img src="puppy.jpg" alt="puppy"/>

Best:

<img src="puppy.jpg" alt="Dalmatian puppy playing fetch">

To be avoided

<img src="puppy.jpg" alt="puppy dog baby 
dog pup pups puppies doggies pups litter puppies dog retriever 
 labrador wolfhound setter pointer puppy jack russell terrier 
puppies dog food cheap dogfood puppy food"/>

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016?hl=en

July 10, 2015

About Malware in your server

Keep your site clean and secure. Every time shoppers place an order, they’re trusting you to keep them safe from hackers who steal information or spread spyware and viruses.

Malware is short for malicious software. It’s a catch-all term that describes harmful applications or other malicious code such as adware, spyware, trojan horses, worms or viruses.

Malware comes in many forms, from an unwanted ad reappearing on your site to an executable file that infects visitors who click on it. Telltale signs that your site is infected can include unexplained ads, links or pop-ups, but some malware can have no noticeable effects at all.

Your best defenses against malware are staying current with third-party application patches and using strong server passwords. When checking for the presence of malware, be sure to check the code residing on your server and not your backup files. Always use a virtual machine for verification to avoid infecting your own computer.

We cannot assist you with removing malware from your server. Consider taking your site down immediately to prevent infecting visitors, and take action quickly to identify/remove it.

Defend your website

SiteLock protects your web investment, keeping you and your customers safe from hackers and other online threats.

July 10, 2015

Slow Website Speed Problems – Why?

Knowing how to improve your website’s performance is important. We use tools like P3 Profiler, Yslow, Pagespeed, and WebPageTest.org to diagnose poor Web page performance. For more information on using tools to determine site slowness, see Website speed tests

It’s quite possible that your website is slow because of one of the five issues below. Check them out, and see how they relate to your site.

Page Size — The bigger your page, the longer it takes to download, especially over slower connections.Big images are probably the number one cause of slow loading pages. Most image creation software has image compression options. There are also online tools, such as Smushit by Yahoo®! that can help you compress large images. You should make sure that each image on your website is optimized for the Web. Also, resize images to fit the width and height you want them to display on your page. We often see people upload giant 2000-plus pixels-wide images they snapped with their digital cameras and then use the width and height parameters to shrink them, like this width="500"height="300". Don’t do that. If you say width=”500″ height=”300″ in your img tag, the image should be optimized and 500×300 pixels.
Time to First Byte — An increased time to 1st byte means there are too many SQL queries or non optimized SQL queries. This can also include server-side calls to third-party API. If you’re running WordPress, get the WordPress Plugin P3 Profiler to discover what plugins are running what queries and how long each one takes.If you’re a WordPress user, there are a number of plugins you can check out. We’ve seen caching plugins affect performance both positively and negatively on customer sites and it’s largely dependent upon the traffic, and how dynamic the site is. Popular choices for WordPress are WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Batcache and Tribe Object Cache. These plugins offer various page, database and browser cache features. Try each one out (one at a time, not all at once) and see what works best for you.
Total Objects and Third-Party Objects — Too many objects on your page will require visitors’ browsers to perform the request and receive pattern too many times and slow down your page. Try combining JavaScript and CSS. Use sprites for your images. You could use mod_pagespeed to help automate this for your site. For more information, see Which mod_pagespeed functions do you support? Also be wary of how many third-party domains you’re using. Too many social buttons cause problems. If you use WordPress, you might want to check out the WordPress plugin Lazy Social Buttons.
Cached Objects — You want browsers caching your site. You need to instruct the Web server to enable expires headers on your static objects. This tells browsers to cache the site. This is not currently enabled by default on our Windows hosting plans, but is available for Linux plans. For more information, see Enabling mod_expires with Your Hosting Account.
Text Compression — If you don’t have text compression turned on, your page is going to be slow. We turn this on by default on our Web Hosting plans, so your if your page is suffering from this, it’s either because of third-party objects, or it somehow got disabled on your hosting account. See Enabling mod_deflate with Your Hosting Account for more information

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015

Website Builder Version 7 is Here!

Website Builder Version 7 is Here!
The release of Website Builder v7 has been much anticipated and We are happy to announce that it is now available!

Key Features of Version 7:

Drag and drop website builder, designed for easy use
Unlimited Pages on ALL plans!
Up to 300 themes available depending on the plan purchased
Mobile Site available depending on plan
All this and more! Check out your Website Builder page for more details!
With this change, we updated the names of the different plans to best communicate who they are intended for; specifically, the Economy plan is now called Personal, Deluxe is now called Business, and Premium is now called Business Plus. All new purchases of Website Builder will be provisioned in version 7 of the product. Current Website Builder customers will continue to have access and use of version 6 of Website Builder. Unfortunately, at this time, there is not a migration path between version 6 and 7. Visit here for more information about website builder V7 or cheap domain registration service here.

June 23, 2015

If your website is hacked, it means a few things:

“Hacked” is a term you hear thrown around a lot — especially regarding websites — without much definition.

If your website is hacked, it means a few things:

Someone gained access to your account (typically via File Transfer Protocol, a.k.a. FTP). By gaining FTP access, hackers can insert their own code on your site.
After gaining access to your site, they put malicious code in it. What the code does depends on the hacker’s objectives.

Because hacking can be extra insidious, sometimes your site can get hacked without you ever realizing it. Other times, hackers will be incredibly ham-fisted and either bring down your site or replace it with an obscene message.

Among the other unpleasant things hackers do to sites:

Install viruses on visitor’s computers
Redirect visitors to other sites
Use your website to attack other websites, bringing them down

Now, unfortunately, there’s no LoJack® for a hijacked website, but there are a few things you can do to make sure you don’t fall victim to a hacker:

Use a secure password. This means something better than just tacking a numeral 1 to the end of your first dog’s name. We have information in Keeping Your Hosting/FTP Password Secure.
Have your site scanned regularly. A lot of companies offer tools that will go through your site looking for malicious/suspicious-looking code or activity.
Update your website’s software. If you use something like WordPress®, keeping your software up-to-date is the difference between your site running smoothly and having a site infested with malware

By being aware of the threat of hackers and taking a few precautions, you can stop your site from harming visitors and other sites around the Internet.

April 15, 2015

What is a Cron Job?

Cron is a standard Linux feature that allows you to schedule tasks, called “Cron Jobs,” to run unattended at a specified frequency. For example, you can set the frequency of a job to run twice an hour, Mondays at 8:00 a.m., or weekdays at 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Cron Job reports are sent to the email address specified in the Hosting Control Panel Cron Job Manager.

There are several ways to schedule commands to run. Typically, you create a shell script to run as a Cron Job. It runs a list of commands while checking for errors and valid return codes. To run a shell script, set its bit set permissions to “executable.” Alternatively, compose a binary executable with a number of arguments. For example, “touch” a file:

/bin/touch $HOME/html/cron_test

The first part of this sample command, “/bin/touch” runs the executable. The second part, “$HOME/html/cron_test” is an argument for the “touch” command.

NOTE: In the example above, the “$HOME” variable is set to the default directory of the hosting account. The “html” directory is the document root of the hosting account.

In addition to shell scripts, your hosting environment supports other language scripts. For example, Perl is a commonly used scripting language that can use scripts as Cron Jobs. In most cases, you can perform this task by specifying to use the executable as the first line of the script. For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

When a script begins with a line, as in the previous example, and the executable permissions are set, you can specify the line as the command to run for a Cron Job.

The PHP (versions 4 and 5) hosting installations do not support the use of the executable line in scripts. To run a PHP script with Cron, you must set the path to the PHP interpreter as the first element of the command, and then enter the full path of the script you want to run.

The full path to the PHP executables depend on what type of hosting you have (more info) and your PHP version (more info):

All cPanel Shared Hosting: /usr/local/bin/php -q
Other hosting PHP version 4: /web/cgi-bin/php
Other hosting PHP version 5 through 5.2: /web/cgi-bin/php5
Other hosting PHP version 5.3: /web/cgi-bin/php5_3
Plesk hosting PHP version 5.4: /web/cgi-bin/php5_4

NOTE: Our Classic & Web hosting accounts using PHP version 5.4 do not currently support running PHP scripts with Cron.

April 6, 2015

Search Engine Visibility – Optimizing Your Search Engine Tags

Search Engine Visibility lets you view your site’s current tags and create populated tags for easy downloading and pasting in your Web page’s code.

To View Current Tags

Log in to your Account Manager.
Click Search Engine Visibility V1.
Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
From the Optimize tab, select Optimize Tags.
Click the Current Tags tab to view your site’s active tags.
Use the Back and Next buttons to navigate between your site’s pages.

NOTE: You cannot modify content on the Current Tags tab. To modify or add new tags, use the Optimized Tags tab.

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To Create New Tags

On the Optimize Tags page, select the Optimize Tags tab.
Use the Back and Next buttons to navigate between your site’s pages.
In the Title field, enter the title tag.
In the Description field, enter description tags.
In the Keywords field, enter the keywords tags.

NOTE: For suggestions and guidelines on each tag, click the question mark next to the tag name.

(Optional) Click Select defined keywords to add keywords that you have already defined.
Click Publish All Pages or More Options, and then choose between Download Text File or Export to Webmaster. Continue downloading or publishing for each page as needed