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Most of the time, some webhost just like their domain name says — the monster in web hosting. Indeed, there're many web hosting companies setup their websites via animal names and actually doing very well in the business. In this article I'll introduce several well-known brands and make a general comparison.

What're the most famous animal named hosting?

Till present, Hostgator, Hostmonster and Hawkhost are 3 of the most famous hosting brands in the industry. Their services will meet requirements for most webmasters. Whenever you choose any of them you can always find a good solution for your website. So which of them are doing better?

Actually each of them has their own advantages according to your different requirements to hosting. Here's a table list of their hosting features

Hostgator vs Hostmonster vs Hawkhost

Hostgator — Almost known by every people, it's definitely the real "monster" in this industry. With successful business marketing and outstanding service, hostgator creates over 1% of total internet traffic. Each service you get from this company can be recognized as industry standard.

Hostmonster — Sister site of Bluehost and serving half of their total business. For very a long time, many people prefer to use hostmonster instead of bluehost because of the "one buck difference". Now their price is configured the same by their new owner and everything seems to be equal.

Hawkhost — Hawkhost is outstanding for their litespeed web server which is recognized as one of the fastest web server softwares. SSH access is another feature to attract people's eye-balls. if you need high performance and ssh support, hawkhost is your right choice.

As you see from above explanation, All the three are linux hosting based but hawkhost is definitely most outstanding among the comparison. Especially when you requires fast loading on your website, litespeed is the best replacement of Apache (10 times faster from testing). Moreover, you can configure your hosting stuff via ssh command line.

Google just updated all websites' PR(Page Rank) yesterday, did you get a new PR value on your website? Our website www.webhostpark.com just grow up from PR0 to PR3. Congratulations to our continuing efforts on this website and we'll always try our best to offer the best information to help with web hosting choice.

Google Page rank Overview

Page Rank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page and is a trademark of Google. Google will evaluate the quality of your website and assign a numerical weight to it based on the genrous stats received in google database. Normally, the higher PR on your website, the higher search result will be. It also approves the quality of your website and popularity on internet.

How to increase website page rank?

How to increase my website page rank? this must be a frequently asked question everywhere on various forums, especially for people who is doing online business. PR is very important to get your service/product rank high from search engine. So how can I get higher PR on my website? Here I would like to share some SEO tips about how to increase your website PR

SEO tips to increase your website page rank

1. Website Internal Optimization

It's also called on page optimization. There're many articles explaining how to optimize your website internally, but all can be categorized as following

A. Standadize your page title, meta tags and page description. In short, it should look like below

<title>your website page title here including your keywords</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3" />
<meta name="description" content="some description about your website here including your keywords />

you should place all above elements between "<header></header>" in your html codes. Nowadays many people use opensource cms softwares to build a website and you can configure all above easily from admin page.

Note: the keywords tag is no longer important as google suggested. You can ignore that section directly nowadays.

B. Website article posting. you should write the article based on your keywords and insert anchor text smartly to point to according pages. what's anchor text, for example I put a link like this "<a href="http://www.webhostpark.com">hosting coupon</a>" then search engine would recognize your website is about hosting coupon.

C. Update your website regularly. You should always doing that to add fresh content to your website. Don't add every at one time and stop doing it after that.

2. Link building

Link building always cost webmasters the most time since it's a long term daily work. there're various ways for link building such as blog posting, forum posting and article marketing, remember to add your website keywords to signature. Link exchange would be the best way to get backlinks in short time, so never forgot to request link exchange with quality websites.

Back link is actually the solely concern for PR value. More back links, higher PR on website. Although PR is not considered by professionals, it still plays an important role on website. The direct explanation is how important your website is from google opinions.

3. Forget SEO and offer quality information

Remember, the most important point of seo is to forget seo, because you're promoting the actual service/product . your should be responsible for your website and never spam everywhere on internet or else you're in high risk being pulished by google. Always think about how to increase your website quality and offer something really helpful to people.

Other aspects you need to consider for website SEO

Except for all above explanation, one of the most important is your website stability and uptime, once your website is put online, don't change the title or descriptions often, you should prepare that before the website online.

About website uptime, you must find a quality web hosting to serve your site, a website always fail to load would be recognized untrustable by google. To get quality web hosting please visit this page.

Do you have other tips about website optimization? Share your ideas and get ranked on google!

Free Domain Registration Overview

Although the world is full of fake advertisement such as unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth etc, there does have some kind of completely free service. In this article we will share with you the best free domain registrar and review based editorial experience for why should you take it or not.

How is free domain registration offered?

Normally, when you sign up web hosting from some service provider they will offer you free domain registration oppertunity. However you have to keep your hosting service with them or else you might loose your domain or deal with a lot of complex work to transfer it out.

Another case is about the domain registration with free hosting provider, it's not actual top level domain name but just a sub domain under their main site. Frankly speaking you won't benefit too much from such domain because you're doing free advertising for the hosting provider!

Who can offer real free top level domain registration?

Absolutely, there're many people who are looking for free domain registration without any hassle. Dot.TK would be the best place for such concerns. TK stands for ToKeLau (a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean). TK domain is working the same as other top level international domains, the only difference is the tk extention. So what you need to keep in mind in order to register tk domains?

• A. Dot.TK domains are free to every people who like to register domains and you can register as many as you like.
• B. Your tk domain based website must introduce at least 25 clicks within 90 days or else it will be withdraw by the TK registrar.
• C. You have total control over the domain DNS settings such as DNS server, A record and Cname etc.
• D. You have the option to upgrade your membership and pay a small fee to make sure you officially own the domain you have registered.
• E. You have the chance ot join their embassary plan and earn money by referring people to register tk domains.

Who should not use dottk domains?

TK domains are great since from the start but it's also abused a lot by many people. For example many webmasters in China registered a big amount tk domains with no quality websites, finally most of those websites got heavy penalty from the largest search engine "BAIDU". So if you're a Chinese webmaster and would like to promote a successful site in China, tk domains are not recommended anymore. There's no similar issue outside China so you can feel free to use it.

How do we think about TK domains?

It's absolutely great news if you can get it completely free. But it's absolutely bad if you take this advantage to promote some illegal content. If you're start user and like to learn about web hosting and domain related technique, TK domains offer you good oppertunity to learn around. But I highly suggest use this service healthy and never abuse it, You know it might be harmful to other people by doing that.

TK domain official site: www.dot.tk

UPDATE: Another free domain name registration will be opened on 1st May 2013 on www.dot.ml website by Mali(République du Mali). If you're looking for free and clean domain registration, keep an eye on this site and don't miss out!

Affiliate Program Overview

Web Hosting affiliate is a program launched by hosting companies and encourage people to promote their service. In return, the hosting providers will give their affiliates a certain commission. Most of the time people also call it reseller program.

Why web hosting affiliate program?

Affiliate program is absolutely helpful with web hosting service promotion and advertisement. Because the program is profitable to their affiliates, there're many communities and personal websites focusing on this topic. The most common phenomenon is when you search for some hosting related keywords, thoese affiliate websites always get higher rank on search engine such as google, yahoo. If you search more on the web you would see what a big role the affiliate program plays in hosting industry.

In web hosting company end, they with no doubt would like to gain some popularity and increase the sales, the affiliate websites are good places because most of the time people will try to get some suggestions on such website. If you write high quality articles with trusted reviews and recommendation, it will introduce a large ammount sign ups to those hosting providers. With commission return, you will be encouraged to write more professional and high quality articles with your experience through those providers.

How to start a successful web hosting affiliate campaign?

There're two parts included in this program – the hosting provider and the affiliates. In order to start a successful affiliate program they both will have to provide honest and reliable services for the basic start.

• For web hosting provider, they have to offer both reliable hosting services and affiliate services, reliable hosting is the key to the success and if you could then offer a profitable and honest affiliate program, you're most close to success.
• For affiliates part, you have to learn the hosting and most of the time you have to sign up with them directly to get actual experience for your future article posts. When you determine to promote a service, be sure to be as honest as possible instead of commission earning. Your website visitors are treature of your future success, if you can't keep you customer but just try to post some untrustable words, it will definitely be dead journey.
• With above two points, you wil also need to communicate among the hosting provider and your website visitors because you have to learn what people really need and update your website with latest experience/promotions etc. A successful program is always interacted with end users.

What're some well-formed and reliable affiliate websites?

On the web, two types of hosting review sites are most important — community forums and personal blogs. Community forums are managed by several people or even a company. Personal blogs is another type website with this topic, mostly the blog owners are actual customers of the hosting they're trying to promote, they can be trusted more in some degree because they always write articles based on their own experience. So far the following forums/blogs are trustable and very popular on the internet.

Forums: webhostingtalk.com, hostingdiscussion.com, webmasterforum.com
Blogs: webhostpark.com, webhostinggeeks.org

We're also trying to be the most reliable one in the community. our website www.webhostpark.com is opened for real user experience posting and rating, we have been in this industry over 5 years and know the business quite well, you're welcomed to communicate with me directly if you have any doubt or concern for your web hosting choice.

Which web hosting affiliate program can be trusted?

Since the affiliate program is offered by almost every web hosting provider, which one can be trusted and which is scam? Of course it's quite importan to choose the right provider before you try to promote their service, a reliable and profitable program will reduce business loss as well as earning your life. Here're few tips you can follow about how to choose the right affiliate program:

1. Learn the company history carefully — by doing so you can find out how long their service have been setup in the industry and how people think about them, if a company has long history there must be many readable materials to determine if they're worthy of trying.

2. Get updated with the industry news — this is quite important to learn who's going on with those service providers. Especially recent years there're many acquisition and merging events, although the company has been sold to another one but they still keep the official site the same as before but the service level might be dropped back a lot, in such case you will get a big pain if you still trying to promote them, you and your website will be considered as scam by people.

3. Get interacted with communities — community forums are the best place to get latest customer feedbacks and learn how people think about the service you're trying to promote, it will also be helpful to clear people's doubt and introduce your host company.

The above tips are basic rules you should follow before you try to promote some hosting services, since the affiliate program is also your business, you really should evaluate the service properly or else it will bring disaster to your website.

China is so hot recently for their internet policies. Today there's another shocking news announced in this country: Their international internet gateways will be totally closed. anyone who like to connect outbound will have to register firstly from the country's Management department.

China International internet gateways overview

The Chinese international internet gateways are mainly located in eastern China — Shanghai and really few comparing to many modern countries, that's why you can't get fast speed if you like to visit some internet websites from China Mainland. Only few gateways carry over all outbound traffic and it's increasing every minute.

Why China would like to block international gateways?

We're not quite sure why China do this but it will with not doubt bring people a lot of trouble to surf the internet and improve global communications. As you see, China current has the most internet people and if everyone who like go international will have to register first, how will they handle the ammount of requests? People would think they're not surfing the internet but intranet under such environment.

How's going on for Chinese internet?

I have to say, Chinese internet is currently the most safe place in the world. Why? Because their management have strict control over the Country's internet. as far as I can tell, China currently has the most cyber police in the world and almost everything is being monitored in this country.

If you like to learn more about chinese internet environment, here're few graphic explanation to help you understand the topic