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.IN domains for $7.95

thinkdj — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:15:45 +0000

Wizehost.net is offering .in domains for $7.95 for the month of March 2009. (The earlier price was $15).

The promo also comes with free private registration worth $8.99. That’s a $23.99 worth of products for $7.95

Now register .IN domains at Godaddy

thinkdj — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:24:30 +0000

.IN domains (official top-level domain for India) are now available for registration from godaddy.com. Its been sometime since .in domains were officially released. Dont know why it took the #1 dot com registrar and leading hosting provider this long to add .in registrations to its arsenal.

New look Google Analytics

thinkdj — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:52:49 +0000

It seems that Google Analytics has made slight changes to it’s styling. The main layout remains the same..

The menu has been made a bit more appealing but all the features and functionality remains the same.

This is only a slight improvement over the older interface but it sure looks better than the previous.

Chat with blog visitors using Yahoo! Pingbox

thinkdj — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:00:27 +0000

Chat privately with visitors on your social network profiles, blog, or website through Yahoo! Messenger.

Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox™

Create your pingbox, style it, copy the code and paste it on your blog. Only you and person you are chatting with can see the IMs, even if there are multiple visitors viewing your web page. Sign into Yahoo! Messenger and receive private IMs from your visitors. It’s that simple. Read More>>

Web hosting reviews, articles and Tutorials

thinkdj — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:52:18 +0000

WebHostingRating.com is a relatively new web hosting rating site where anyone can find complete information on all web hosting providers, all of their web hosting plans, promotional and discount coupons, and unedited reviews by real customers.

Apart from being just a Web hosting directory, what makes WebHostingRating.com unique is the collection of web hosting tutorials and resources like web hosting awards page that it houses. The articles available would help users with various aspects of web hosting and way beyond like Understanding Ruby on Rails, Payment Options For Your E-Commerce Site, Things you need to know about Windows Server 2008, Shared Hosting And Security Vulnerability etc.. Take a look at the articles even if you have no plans of getting a webhost anytime soon.. They might help..

There are a host of categories.You can find a host browsing categories like :

Unix Hosting
Windows Hosting
Reseller Hosting
VPS Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
Collocation Hosting
Managed Hosting

Also, there is an Awards page that has listings like :

Best Budget Hosting
Best Blog Hosting
Best Forum Hosting
Best Unix Hosting
Best Windows Hosting
Best PHP Hosting
Best Email Hosting
Best E-commerce Hosting
Best Multi-Domain Hosting
Best VPS Hosting
Best Reseller Hosting
Best Dedicated Hosting

Given below is an excerpt from a real unedited user review of a web host..

Used about a year. About 25% of the time I access my site, either directly or through CPanel my account is frozen 1 to 5 minutes at a time. Daily situation. After many contacts with support, I’m always told that they see no problem, & it must be either my router or my ISP.

Hosting companies can apply for an account at webhostingrating.com here.(PS: This is only for Hosting Companies and NOT for affiliates and resellers)

Voxant Newsroom offers $7 CPM for July 2008

thinkdj — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:27:29 +0000

There is a Special promotion for the month of July where The Voxant Newsroom would be offering a $7 CPM for non-autoplay videos
This holds valid ONLY for the month of July.. Other July CPM rates are given below (no changes have been made other than the addition of the July promotion):

Text and Image – $0.10
Referral Text and Image – $0
Autoplay video $0.50
Referral autoplay video $0.10
Non-autoplay video $7 – ONE MONTH SPECIAL PROMOTION
Referral non-autoplay video $1.00

For those of you wondering what Voxant Newsroom is, Voxant’s Newsroom has a huge collection of video, text, and photos from over 300 news sources. Find in-depth news, embed it to your site, and build community!

Their network affiliates include CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press (AP), Reuters, MTV, NHL, AFP, and HowStuffWorks, as well as a variety of website publishers and bloggers.

Each time the EMBEDDED video/article/photo/Slideshow is viewed on your site, you can earn revenue. The Video feeds provide a very high CPM and if your site has an audience interested in news videos, you could make a fortune with this programme.

SAMPLE :

WP-ShortStat plugin : Blog Statistics

thinkdj — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:55:17 +0000

Get statistics like visitor’s browser type, OS, total hits etc. from the admin panel of your wordpress blog with WP-Shortstat plugin.

Fix 500 Internal server Error on .htaccess

thinkdj — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:14:58 +0000

500 Internal Server Error on Localhost for Web.Developer Server Suite was pissing me off for a long time. The Apache error logs shows “RewriteEngine not allowed here”. Deleting .htaccess would fix the problem, but here is the fix. It’s a problem with mod_rewrite module and Apache’s AllowOverride configuration. Here’s how to fix it :

Firstly, make sure LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so is enabled in httpd.conf (Remove # before the line to enable)

Then, edit httpd.conf .. Find out the foll lines and mod -

#replace this with your dir name
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All #Added

Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride Limit #Old Value
AllowOverride All #Added
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Satisfy all

What is Adsense Smart Pricing ?

thinkdj — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:59:44 +0000

Smart Pricing is a feature added by Google to give Advertisers value for money. Adsense publishers set up temporary, trashy and/or un-authoritative pages of content on topics that they know will get high paying adverts. Clicks on such pages are not really of good value for advertisers (really ?) The system, known as “smart pricing,” assigns each click a value based on a variety of factors, according to Google. Variables include site on which the ad appears, and the portion of the site where the ad appears.

Google gives a little away in its statement announcing Smart Pricing to advertisers back in April 2004.

‘We’re introducing automatic price adjustments for certain clicks you get from the Google Network. Google’s smart pricing model has always provided better placement for better performing ads, and reduced the cost of a click to the least amount possible to stay above your competitor’s ad. And now, with no change in how you bid, Google may reduce the cost for a click if that better reflects the value it brings to advertisers like you.

How smart pricing works

We are constantly analyzing data across our network, and if our data shows that a click is less likely to turn into business results (e.g. online sale, registration, phone call, newsletter sign-up), we may reduce the price you pay for that click. You may notice a reduction in the cost of clicks from content sites.

We take into account many factors such as what keywords or concepts triggered the ad, as well as the type of site on which the ad was served. For example, a click on an ad for digital cameras on a web page about photography tips may be worth less than a click on the same ad appearing next to a review of digital cameras.

Google saves you time and hassle by estimating the value of clicks and adjusting prices on an ongoing basis. With improved smart pricing, you should automatically get greater value for clicks from ad impressions across our network, all with no change in how you bid.

GoDaddy 500 Internal Server Error Fix

thinkdj — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:49:36 +0000

I was facing the Internal Server Error on my GoDaddy hosting after installing the WP-Cache plugin.

Givver has a post over at his blog that helped me fix the problem. So, if you are facing the 500 “Internal Server Error” on your wordpress blog after installing the WP Cache, have a look at GoDaddy 500 Internal Server Error at Ramblings of a Bored Geek and get it fixed ..

cheers ! ( and thankyou Givver )
dj