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**Guest post** What web hosting type to choose for your blog? So you’ve decided to start your own blog, but you’re absolutely clueless when it comes to anything technical.  Before you decide on your design or any technical specifications you need to first buy a domain and hosting. This is a quick guide to introduce you to the types of web hosting there are, so that you’ll be able to find what suits you best. There are four main types of web hosting available: shared hosting, VPS, cloud hosting and dedicated hosting.   Shared Hosting With shared hosting your website is located on the same server as hundreds of other websites and all of you share the resources and have the same IP address. While many providers say they give you unlimited resources, in reality they are limited, and if one of the websites consumes more resources, your website will be slow and may often experience downtime. Shared hosting is not regarded as the best option, however it is quite cheap. If yo...

Everyone has one or more tales to tell about their experience with products they've used overtime and in this post, I'll be filling the world in of my experience with Godaddy, one of the largest and most popular hosting company in the world. I've always used them for hosting and domain purchasing but now I've got a thing to share about their shared hosting economy plan which I bought at a terrific rate. Crap, absolutely crap! I had to abandon the hosting plan pending when it expires by March 2018.  Honestly, godaddy's $1/mo promo shared hosting plan for one year however enticing it is, should be a no no for you. Please do not fall for the cajoling ads you see popping here and there while you surf the web. Yes, I wrote a post promoting the offer but after my unlikely experience with the service, I'd be damned not to advise you against falling for the almost free hosting plan. The only good thing about the offer is the free domain name (lasts for a year) you...

If you've been in the blogosphere for a while now, I believe you should have heard about and made use of either blogger or WordPress.org if not both. But for the benefit of those who do not have an idea about Blogger and WordPress.org; they are platforms used for managing, maintaining and updating a blog. The duo, are the most famous blogging platforms. While blogger is brings about hosted blogs, the latter brings about self-hosted blogs. It won't be totally fair to compare the two blogging platform since they aren't of the same category but then, some lies have to be debunked. ~ Eye Opening Tips For New Bloggers; Read this DO's and DON'Ts before Starting Your Blog   Now, I've read tons of websites comparing blogger and WordPress.org, but most of these blog sites have being somewhat unjust to blogger for reasons best known to them and in this post, I will be doing a much more better comparison without slanting or favouring one over the other. This po...

I've written so much about blogging to an extent that a regular visitor of my blog should have had a good knowledge of what it is all about. Blogging is a beautiful practise and it has grown bigger than just a piece of cake! Different people use do for different purpose. Some just love to share and save their life experiences, hobbies and personal life issues while may others do it for something deeper, to make money. There is a 99% chance that most bloggers have heard of “Open Source CMS, WordPress", the most popular free application for running a blog. Also, there is a similar chance that most bloggers have never heard about other great free Open Source CMS similar to WordPress.org. They can serve the same purpose and some might even do better than WordPress. 1. Joomla First on my list is Joomla. This CMS is actually gaining grounds and is being used by several websites. Joomla is flexible but unlike WordPress, needs a programmer's understanding. If you give ...

There are numerous well-established bloggers in diaspora blogging in several niches that target one specific gender or both. If you target a specific gender, then it's important that you show that through your blog design. For female audiences, you'll need the right feminine WordPress theme! Blogging is one if the best agent of online marketing and most people use reviews and recommendations from blogs to choose products/services for their needs. This method of product selection is crucial to women, as a good percentage of them shop online. It's Important for blogs targeting female audiences to have a touch of femininity in them. Put simply, the moment a woman visits your website her sole interest is to check out what's being provided on your website and yes, a feminine design is more appealing and will make her trust your judgement. Themes do enhance the look of a site and a feminine theme will give your blog reader a feeling that she's on the right track fo...

Blogger provides limited font styles for its users despite the availability of numerous fonts in the google web fonts. It's OK to get tired of the default fonts provided by blogger in the template designer. Also, you might want something girly, chic or fancy either for ads or blog header There are tons of beautiful fonts online that will bring more life to your posts as well as design. Yes, your fonts can actually make your blog look beautiful. Good news is, If your desired font is not in the Blogger template designer, you can add fonts to Blogger manually. The most popular web font directory is Google Font library , which is a greatly utilized by web developers and designers. Unlike most web font sites, the fonts hosted on google are free for personal or commercial purposes and are easily accessible. To add a font manually to your blog, all you have to do is head over to google web font , and find a preferred font (There are lots of fonts to choose from, don't get...

If you use the self hosted WordPress.org, I'm sure you constantly consider the security of your self hosted site and want to Secure Your WordPress website From Hackers because there are lots miscreants out there planing or already attempting to attack and hack your blog or site. While there are several steps to take in securing your blog, today, I will be sharing the easiest of them all, "Changing your wp-login page URL"... The first place a hacker attempts to visit in your blog is your wp-admin login page. Obviously, everyone knows the default WordPress login page URL. Anyone can type your URL and add /wp-admin or /wp-login to visit your WordPress login page.  I've seen visits to my blogger blog having '/wp-login.php link'. Why on earth will someone try to visit that? Probably trying to hack a blog on blogger? Lol.  If you've noticed notifications (that's if you have one set up) of several failed login attempts, chances are you have an enemy...

Moving from blogger to WordPress without losing traffic have been one very big challenge bloggers encounter while trying to step up to another phase in their blogging career. Sometimes we realize how much we need to take control and total ownership of our blog and wish to move from being hosted to being self hosted but the major problem of this decision is coming to terms with the fact that you might lose a good percentage of your traffic due to changes that may occur mainly in your URL...  Apparently, transferring your posts from blogger to wordpress is not a big deal and the move has become so easy; thanks to the consistent updates by WordPress.Losing traffic after transfer is obviously a very big deal especially to bloggers having so many posts which can encourage manual set up for redirection... Note; To make your migration easy, I you must have had a custom domain attached to your blogger blog. This process will not work for you and the transfer will be tedious i...

Godaddy $1 webhosting With Free Domain Coupon (Only Applicable To Economy Hosting Plan) Godaddy $1 Hosting: Today I'm pleased to share Godaddy's $1 webhosting promo for the general public. This offer is currently available but only on Economy Hosting Plan but lots of internet users have benefitted from this offer. although this the godaddy $1 webhosting promo has been available for a while now but  I don't have an idea of its validity period. You are advised to grab this offer while it lasts. This $1 per month Discounted is applicable to Economy Hosting Plan. How To Get This Discounted Hosting 1. Visit godaddy following Link Godaddy $1 Web hosting . 2. If you click on the link above, you will be taken to Godaddy’s website and offer webpage. 3. You will find yourself in a page with 3 hosting plans as shown in the picture above. You have to choose the Economy plan out of the 3 to enjoy the Godaddy $1 hosting promo. 4. After you select...

  New to blogging? There are lots of places you could start off your blogging journey, and starting off on these sites is as simple as A B and C. My first pick is Blogger… Blogger  Blogger is an amazing free blogging platform owned by google Inc. creating a blog on blogger is so easy that everyday, new bloggers opt in for this platform which gives access to the popular .blogspot.com subdomain extension. You can register and use your own Top level domain extension to get a perfect and professional feeling. Blogging on blogger is absolutely free and you do not get subjected to annoying forced advertisements. The best part of blogging with blogger is the chance to monetize your blog contents directly with Adsense after a successful application… Trust me,  it’s that easy. Also read: Simple Blogging Rules to Boost your Blog Tumbr Although People rightly consider Tumblr not as a publishing platform but more of a social network, it still made my lis...

I once wrote a post highlighting reasons why blogger is the best place to blog for free , well today, I will be giving you some cool reasons why you should probably stick with blogger... Blogger isn't as bad as a whole lot of people paint it to be, infact I'm a very big fan of blogger and though it has its downsides, there are just a good number of reasons why you need to stick with blogger... Moving to WordPress or Joomla isn't a big deal but the big deal there is moving in with the right host, strong enough to barricade your site... I have heard of sites and blogs which got hacked but never heard of a blog hosted on blogger getting hacked... Before you make your major move to a supposed better blog host, there is one thing you should think of... How protected will your site be? Trust me, Every blogger out there gets scared of being hacked and hackers are becoming amazingly good by the day! If you own a simple blog, I wonder if there is a seri...

This article is dedicated to every Nigerian hoping to start their own Self-hosted Blog but wish to do so with an indigenous host. Basically, We have two types of blog host; The free blog host like Blogger, WordPress.com and Tumblr. And the paid hosts... You need a host for blogging software like WordPress.org, joomla, drupal (WordPress.org is the best cms you can get). WordPress.org blogs are usually referred to as self hosted because you only get access to them by hosting them, self–hosted server. If free hosts like Blogger end up not satisfying you because the limits are so many, WordPress.org self hosted blog can just be what you need... Read: How to Create a Blogger Blog Everyone no doubt would love to start something they can totally be in control of. I will be pointing out some basic things you should do in order to Start your Self Hosted Blog. STARTING YOUR SELF-HOSTED BLOG 1. GET A DOMAIN Your Domain name should be the first th...

WordPress ping list are indeed useful when you want to extend your blog reach to major search engines. If you are not aware of pinging feature in WordPress, then be aware now! :) When ever you publish, edit or modify a post, WordPress sends ping to all the Ping services which must have been listed under your ping update service. So this way, ping services get notified about new post and search engine will quickly index them. Now by default WordPress notifies all major ping services but we can always extend our limit by pinging more services. adding them manually is an option definitely.  Below is a list of ping services for WordPress , which will help you to ping more services. You can also copy the list from WordPress doc file http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://1470.net/api/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com...

Do you make and upload your videos to YouTube and would want to share it with your blog readers in your sidebar, footer, or blog posts Or did you see an amazing video you would want your blog readers to get a glimpse of? This post is for you!  The basic thing to do is to upload or find a video then copy the embed code from YouTube and add it to your blogger blog post.  You can change the width and height of the iframe as well to fit into your blog post so that it doesn't overlap the width of your website or give your blog a clumpy lazy look.  Embedding YouTube videos on your blog post enables you to showcase videos from youtube on your blog without wasting bandwidth and storage space on your hosting space. this enable your visitor to watch the video right from your website without the popular problem of buffering and delay in playback.  In this post, I will share with you how you can embed a YouTube video in your blog post or anywhere else. It is abs...

You probably have an Instagram account and would want to showcase your pictures in your blog. Adding an Instagram widget to your blog goes beyond just showcasing your account to gaining followers, who wouldn't want more followers? This post will be your guide in embedding an Instagram feed into your blog. For people do not use or have an idea of Instagram, to let you know about the beautiful platform, I will run through it briefly.  Instagram is an online photo and video sharing network which let you share photos and videos straight from your mobile device to your account for your followers viewing pleasure. With Instagram, you can automatically share your photos and videos on social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. I will be sharing a couple of tutorials with you today that not require a plugin, and can be used on either WordPress or Blogger platform, although I will center more on blogger users. There are many websites that could work ...