The basic idea of each social link community is that people share their discovered links with others via the Internet. Actually it’s only allowed to send those links to your social community friends. Having a lot of friends with the same interest like yourself is something very valuable to generate a lot of traffic to your website or weblog. We all know that both communities digg.com and StumbleUpon are good for big traffic if some story became hot in these communities. A listing on the digg.com main page is good for many 10K of visitors. Let’s have a look on the link sharing features which both communities provide:

StumbleUpon (SU toolbar fun)

Each SU member can add friends while stumbling other member pages. Members of stumbleupon use a browser toolbar for voting and navigation (stumbling), will say you need to send links to your friends via this toolbar. Your friends will notice your “shout” because of some tiny red number in their SU toolbar. After they stumbled your page they see your message and it possible to send some message back. If you have some active SU friends and they like what you send them via the toolbar it’s possible that this “Stumble” becomes hot and the stumbled page becomes a hot item and is presented more often to other stumblers. (more…)

Often people doesn’t like to use Flash websites because Google can’t “read” the text inside a flash movie. In the past people used a mirror HTML version to get in the SERP’s of Google and other search engines.

These days I read about some nice project the SWFObject a nice JavaScript solution that enables Flash user to detect the Flash plug-in for each browser. Actually there is no more OBJECT, PARAM or EMBED element in the HTML code required because this is done by the SWFObject. Using this object the security issue that comes with Internet Explorer belongs to the present (people don’t need to click twice to access a Flash element). How is this working? This is the code you need to add a Flash movie to you web page? (more…)

When you are setting up a website for the first time, one of the more important considerations is the domain name you will use. Probably as important as the domain name you will use for your website is the company that you use to register the domain. Here we will explain how you can choose a domain name that matches the needs of your business as well how to choose a domain name registrar that will be suitable for your type of business.

Choosing the domain name

There are two ways to choose a domain name for your website; a branded name or a keyword focused name.

Keyword focused domain names

Keyword focused domain names are exactly what they sound like, choosing a domain name that incorporates the use of keyword phrases, or terms that you would like to rank for in search engines. Let’s say, for instance, that you want to offer writing services on your website. If going the keyword focused domain name route, you might look for “writingservices.com”, “freelancewriter.net” or the like.

There are two benefits to choosing a keyword focused domain name: (more…)

There are a number of different ways that you can save on web hosting when it comes right down to it and because of that there are cheap web hosting solutions available to you all over the internet. The most obvious type of low price web hosting available on the internet today is probably Cpanel hosting.

Cpanel is a software program that people use to facilitate the construction of their websites and it is very popular in the internet world today. You can facilitate a lot of different things with the Cpanel software; everything from normal web hosting all the way up to php web hosting if you want to be able to do some server scripting on your web site. Below are some of great features of using the Cpanel software:

• Easily setup and manage email accounts including web mail and pop access.
• Manage files, ftp and different level access effortlessly
• Detailed stats about your visitors
• Pre written cgi, Perl and other software available for easy install
• Manage sub domains, add on domains and parked domains simply.

The use of Cpanel to drive down hosting costs is something that has been known for a very long time now and ultimately that is what people primarily use for that purpose.