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Yahoo Site Explorer Closed

From Yahoo official blog press release, one of their great tool "Yahoo Site Explorer" already completely closed. From November 21, 2011, this product got it's life cycle and related API will be shutdown too. The Yahoo site explorer is merged into "Bing Webmaster Tools" which is co-operation result between Microsoft and Yahoo.

What kind of effect to us?

To learn about the effect, we need to know what actually good of yahoo site explorer is. Absolutely, every webmaster should be familar with this tool because it's always accurate for website backlinks checking. Comparing to other similar tools, yahoo site explorer is quick and easy to use. The best of the best is this service is completely free! As it's merged into Bing webmaster tools, webmasters won't be able to check site links so conveniently.

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How about Bing Webmaster Tools?

The Bing Webmaster Tools is some kind powerful and almost every functions designed there, however the site backlink checking tool is not so great than yahoo site explorer. The biggest difference is the bing product be able to check back links for your own website only, that means you have to be the website master in order to check such info, however you can do it freely from yahoo site explorer for any website. While this great tool closed and no better solution developed, webmasters (especially SEO workers) will lose the chance to learn about competition websites' backlinks and hard to check their optimization progress.

Yahoo site explorer screenshots:

yahoo site explorer closed

How do we think about yahoo?

To be honest, I personally do not have much confidence to yahoo by reviewing it's history. More and more excellent products being deleted or dropped like Delicious, MyBlogblog, Flikr etc. Now it's the turn for site explorer. I can't imagine how yahoo look likes in few years later. If they continue to manage their services, who will trust them?

Yahoo Site Explorer, a great tool that had brought great help to thousands webmasters, thanks to it's great service in the past years. At the mean time, we hope there will be such great products from the Microsoft Bing Webmater Tools.

Endurance is sold by KKR for $1 billion

You know the name EIG (endurance International Group) right? Now we need to refresh our memories as it's already sold to a private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners! If you're already EIG customer, I would like to introduce more about their latest business actions. If you're new, make sure to read over this article and make right choice in selecting web hosting providers.

Endurance miracle history

We wrote a general review about endurance from this EIG hosting article long time ago. However, it's obviously not enough for us to learn about this company well. Here I would like to introduce two of the big cases in EIG business history.

When time got to year 2008, the endurance group already managed over 600,000 global hosting accounts by acquiring existing names. At this very time, another business negociation was being launched between EIG and Accel-KKR and finally they got agreetment on October 17, 2008 to sell EIG with unpublished amount dollars.

The Accel-KKR is a technology-focused private equity firm with over $1.3 billion in assets under management. Just some time ago, their team and silver lake purchased godaddy hosting which is almost an earth quake to many people. On November 8, 2011, Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners announced they will purchase EIG from KKR with around $1 billion

As we see, although the EIG team has been acquiring other companies with no stop, they also like to sell out their business if it's a good deal. However, whatever changes with EIG group, they will continue to purchase other hosting brands if it's possible.

Popular brands under endurance

The Endurance never publicized the brands they're operating but still kept the old names and no referring to EIG stuff. However, people still found a good list of their existing web hosting sites. Just check below and see if you're paying one of them

Bluehost. Hostmonster. Spry. VPSLink. Netfirms. JustHost. SuperGreenHosting. Host Clear. EasyCGI. YourWebHosting. AccountSupport. BizLand. BlueDomino. DomainHost. Dot5Hosting. eHost. EntryHost. FatCow. FreeYellow. HostCentric. HostYourSite. iPage. HyperMart. IMOutdoorsHosting. Ipower. IPowerWeb. Networkshosting. PowWeb. PureHost. ReadyHosting. StartLogic. USANetHosting. VirtualAvenue. Webstrikesolutions. Xeran. Globat. ApolloHosting. WebHost4Life

Of course, there're more names which are not included in the list because it's always increasing day by day and hard to track out them all. By operating the existing business brands, EIG serves more than 1.9 million customers with over 7.7 million domains and delivers more than 5 million applications on the globe.

How do we think about this business news?

Why the investors are interested in buying EIG? Jim Neary, managing director at Warburg Pincus said this in press release "We are excited about partnering with the Endurance management team as the Company continues its impressive growth trajectory."

It's big business in web hosting industry and such purchasing & selling will be more and more common because as long as you can pay that amount, it's still good deal to every business operators. It's hard to find a hosting company who can keep their true brand over 10 years. However we still wish to see someone who can keep the business growth as well as their brands.

Arvixe From Inc500! Ranked 209

Have you checked inc.500 magazine recently? Arvixe web hosting is now listed and ranked NO.1 for the fastest growing hosting company in America! Ranked 209 from all other business competitors in the list. Arvixe stands out as the only shared hosting company on the Inc. 500 list with a 3 year growth of 1487%.

Related sources for arvixe ranking: http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/arvixe

How does arvixe celebrate their inc.500 ranking?

Like every other hosting company who celebrating their anneversary or national day etc, discount service is the best offer for everyone who like to try out web hosting. Arvixe proudly to offer 20% discount officially in their announcement. If you're existing arvixe client you should have received the broadcasting. If you have not received yet, just click above arvixe coupon button then it will be displayed.

So is that all from arvixe? Absolutely not, the famous template and blog theme website 4templates has partnered with arvixe and they will offer you instant 30% discount if you're redirected from arvixe website! I'm sure many people are familiar with this website because there's plenty of professional and nice themes to apply to your website or blogs. What's the link to receive discount? Just visit this URL directly and discount will be activated http://www.4templates.com/arvixe3010

Note: The discount will be applied directly through checkout and this offer only valid through 11-19-2011

What's good about arvixe hosting?

Shared hosting service is most featured from arvixe company as we see from inc.500 ranking. If you search around the web hosting industry you will find over 90% are pure linux based with various service plans. Beside industry standard linux hosting plans, arvixe also provide outstanding windows hosting service with standard management tools. If you're microsoft fans and require Latest .Net frameworks as well as SQL server support, arvixe will never disappoint you. With their years' experience in windows hosting, you can sleep safely by hosting your website on arvixe server.

How do we think about arvixe web hosting?

If you reached our website before you know that our website webhostpark is hosted with arvixe! over the past few months experience we never got problems on this website so I can say I'm satisfied with arvixe services and it's always my first recommendation if any of my friend need hosting service.

Go to http://www.Arvixe.com and claim the best offer!

Enkompass Goes Free Now!

Enkompass goes free! It's obviously the most hot topic on many web forums recently. It really shocked me when I firstly heard of the news. If you're cpanel product fans and currently running windows web hosting service, it's quite worthy of trying out enkompass since you don't need to pay a penny in order to get it running!

How cpanel inc offers enkompass free of charge?

cPanel has decided to offer Enkompass free of charge beginning October 12, 2011. Why their people decide to offer it free? “All options for moving this product mainstream were considered, but ultimately the decision was made to move Enkompass to a no-cost control panel,” cPanel Vice President of Product Development Ben Thomas said. Thomas also explained the reason directly because sales and distribution have not met expectations!

Why enkompass failed to gain business in web hosting control panel solutions? To answer this question, we should refer to this enkompass hosting article about the enkompass features. As we know this control panel only works with Active directory which requires high degrees of system management skills plus a powerful server system. That means if you're traditional hosting provider, you have to convert everything manually to enkompass system because there's no easier solution provided by cpanel Inc.

Also, for such complex hosting structure, hosting companies can only offer services from shared hosting plan with pretty expensive license fee. For small hosting companies, enkompass is almost non-profitable control panel solution.

Enkompass vs Websitepanel, which would be better choice?

Beside enkompass, websitepanel would be the most popular windows hosting control panel software which has been open source. More and more skilled developers have joined the software development. Since enkompass is announced to be free now, how will people choose from? Let's firstly compare what's being offered from the two softwares

Mysql and user management
Sql server and user management
Smartermail and Mailenable integration
FTP and domain management
Reseller account management

Above features are main and most common features of the two softwares. So there's no much difference from product functions. Their main difference is about setup. You only need to download a small installer for websitepanel and it will be configured quickly from your windows server, however, for enkompass you have to get the Active directory configured properly first then install enkompass online. Unless you're running a hosting company or practise on localhost, it's really hard to try out enkompass. For webmasters who would like to manage a vps/dedicated server, websitepanel is easier solution.

What's the future of enkompass?

In 2011, enkompass will release it's final version(free) plus two final commercially-supported releases. For existing clients. they will still get support for a period of 12-18 months, or until their licenses expire. Although the software goes free, the enkompass team will still fix bugs and hot patches since it's not yet open sourced. This software has been developed for years but finally announced to be free. What should I say? Feel free to share your thoughts.

EIG Web Hosting Promotion on Top brands

endurance International Group (Know as EIG) has huge impact to web hosting industry because of their global business. If you have never heard of EIG, you can check out this "EIG Hosting" posting to learn more about this company. Due to a most recent business action, EIG again is a hot topic on web forums. In this article posting I would like to introduce their campaign.

Endurance Hosting Promo Campaign

The campaign is to donate 10% of their income from web hosting to the America breast cancer research and education. Whatever bad news you may heard about EIG, most people would support their new actions. The EIG business is fast growing and very likely to be the largest web hosting provider in the world if everything goes properly. Their inhouse developed hosting control panel Vdeck is also one of the most popular control panel software and accepted by many clients for it's user friendly and powerful design. Based their promo explanation, they will give out 10% revenue to the cancer research. Means you're doing some effort to it as well if you purchase their service!

How to claim the endurance promotion?

EIG is not offering any web hosting plan directly but deployed all their services from other hosting brands such as ipage, fatcow. Till present, there're over half hundred hosting brands being managed by EIG team. To claim the $2.95/mo promotion service, just visit http://www.domain.com/secret (make sure to replace domain.com to the actual hosting brands such as ipage.com) then the following page will be displayed.

Enter coupon code "PINK" and click the lock icon, the promotion will be activated and following page will be displayed.

Click the "sign up now" button to complete the ordering.

Can you trust the endurance hosting service?

I believe this promotional service will send EIG comapny lots of signups. If I don't have a web hosting solution today I could not just ignore such great price directly. However there's still something you need pay attention to.

The EIG company acquired various hosting brands including windows and linux hosting. As for windows hosting plans are always more expensive than linux, it's not involved in their promotion. That means you can only take the advantage price for their linux hosting.

In some degrees, it's their responsibility to donate to society since they have gathered so much wealth from people. It's always the popular action from most successful comapnies. It's hard to comment if they're good or bad but obviously you can not avoid them because they're actually conquering the industry.

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Google Banned co.cc Domain

Google Banned all co.cc Domains

Are you still dealing with co.cc for your website? Bad news is google has delisted all co.cc based websites from google search result, if you try to site co.cc from google you won't get any result and even th e co.cc main domain name! If you're still using this kind of domain to promote your online business you should stop now because people won't get to your website from google.

Why google banned co.cc domain?

Co.cc is Korea based registration that allows bulk purchasing for free or very low price. It's mostly used by free hosting providers to offer free website to people. There's no bad to the domain name itself, the bad is co.cc domains were spammed by people to create poor quality website. The worst is a big ammount sites were riddled with malware! So in a word, google is forced to clear out co.cc from it's database and ensure the search engine healthy.

Matt Cutts, the Head of Google's Web Spam team, wrote the following on Google+

"First, a definition: a "freehost" is a domain that will let anyone register a site on that domain. There's lots and lots of high-quality freehosts out there (wordpress.com comes to mind)."
"We absolutely do try to be granular, but I wanted to mention that if we see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost be spammy or low-quality, we do reserve the right to take action on the freehost as a whole. I think most savvy search/SEO folks would understand this completely, but I figure it's better to over-communicate than under-communicate."

The block cleared about 11 million results from the Google search index

Just take a look from this google screenshot

What if I still need to use free hosting?

There's no fault to use free hosting services since it's good for people to learn about web hosting before going to paid service. However, make sure to choose other sub domain instead co.cc to create your website. Also you should remember free hosting is just to practise your web skills but not the right deal for online business. If you're going to put up a successful website, go with a paid hosting with no doubt.

Who do we recommend for quality web hosting service? Arvixe is absolutely the best one either for hosting features or server uptime or tech support. Arvixe provide free domain for life as long as you keep hosting with them. You don't have to worry about getting banned like the co.cc domain. 60 days full money back for only $4/mo!

Visit http://www.arvixe.com for leading hosting features

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