Website Tips and Marketing

• DNS settings (A, CNAME, MX, NS, SOA, TXT, PTR, SPF)
• Setup parking domains
• POP3 setup
• SFTP to edit your PHP
• prevent hacking of your website
• and more...
  

For those who wonder what some of us geeks might use for Virus protection, I use AVG Antivirus. Why? It's not because they have a free option. (free for personal use)

It's because it doesn't slow down my computer.

Getting in the Internet Search Engines has always been a topic of changes facts. Google and Yahoo (and the rest) seem to change their rules (special secret algorithms) monthly. What worked last month might not be the best option this week. It can be an endless job keeping on top of all of it.

But, there is a way to bypass all that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Shuffle. SEO Shuffle, a term I just made up and think will write more about later, is the endless tweaking and altering of your site for keyword saturation, metatags, reciprocal linking, and landing pages. Bypass that.

What is this site? Who is this site? Why am I here?

Yes, all valid questions. Put simply, this site is just a storage place for info that I find useful for different purposes.

It could be tips YOU, the reader could use, and find through search engines. Or tips you can share with others that seem to need a little assistance.  A big part of it is tips that *I* can use as reminders of how I might have done something.

Cheap Web Hosting? Yes. There are plenty of discount hosting companies. You probably see ads for them, or your techie friends might tell you about places to get hosting for as cheap as $3 a month!

Those companies work on volume, and though they may have good support, they still expect a certain level of skill and knowledge from the customer.

I have a link to free virus protection at my website.
It's AVG Antivirus.

When you get to their site, they hide the link for the free version. The paid version is still half the price of Norton, but you can get by with the free version.

• Go to their Products menu (on the left). After you click on it, it opens a product list.
• Find AVG FREE Edition in the list. Click.
• Scroll down. There will be a Download section with a link to the AVG Free Advisor. Click.

Now you're on the free site. Download. Save to the Desktop, or somewhere you will remember where the file goes.

Before installing, remove Norton. It will take a while, as it is a big hog.2008-May edit: Note that this opinion is from 2006. Things change, so try to base decisions on recent reviews.