I have recently moved the website Hsenag.info to howtopfy.com due to some undisclosed reasons and i would like to share my experience in doing so.

Firstly, Like any other users of wordpress who wants to change the domain, i planned to setup a domain and test the migration first and then redirect. When i migrated the database first, it migrated well with some issues, then i cleaned up the code in SQL backup and reinstalled again and like a charm it worked pretty well. So here is a glance of Transfering my website from old domain to new domain.

Step by step process of Migrating a WordPress blog to New Domain:
1. Take the backup of your database using PHPMyAdmin of your webhost.This is very important step as we are going to use this backup.

2. Now backup your existing wp-contents folder as this is going to be used all through the life time of your blog.

3. Since the wp-contents folder and SQL file are backed up we are ready to install the same on the new domain.

4. Now, create a domain and make it ready to get installed with wordpress on it. (Note: you have assign it seperately like a new web domain on your host and the name servers should be pointing the same. Hoping you know how to assign a new domain, i m moving forward here.)

5. As the domain is ready, extract a brand new version of the wordpress by downloading it from the wordpress.org to the root directory or sub directory of the New domain as is on the previous domain.

6. After extracting dont hurry to install the new version, we dont require it, because we are installing our old website’s sql dump.

7. Now, open the backed up SQL dump file our old website and do the following corrections.

• Open the file in text editor and find (Ctrl + H) and Replace “olddomainname.com” to “newdomainname.com“.
• If your webhost or web root changes then you might require to change the “/home/account name/” folder. Here account name is the accont name of your webhost in most cases.
• If you have any other changes to be done in posts with old domain, replace them. “olddomainname” to “newdomainname“.Here in my case, i have to replace many a time, hsenag to Howtopfy.
• Change the database table name and remove the headers of PHPMyAdmin present in the top of the sql dump file. Or else you will find your self with errors in creating database.

7. Now goto the New website host and in the PHPMyAdmin of the new webhost, Import the SQL dump file.

8. If installed well, you are ready to go to next step, else, you have to go to step 6 again and make sure everything went right.

9. Since the database is cleanly installed, you need to update it with the new database format, if any. So Migrate to the new website at the follwing address. “ http://yournewdomain.com/wordpress-installation-folder/wp-admin/“.

10. If you get update database option since your wordpress is brand New, please go ahead and click on the option to do so.

11. Now, your installation is ready and the Website or Blog is Moved to your new domain successfully.

Note: Don’t forget to transfer your Wp-contents folder that is backed up before installing your SQL DUMP inthe PHPMyAdmin. Failing in doing so, may break your theme and plugins. If you failed, don’t worry, you can restore all the plugins and themes back just by activating them.

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After my webhost Godaddy, i have shifted to the new host that every one talk about. THE HOST GATOR WEB HOSTING SERVICE USA. As many say it, they are very good a web hosting service. They have every sort of packages and every variety of packages. They have got the best uptime and most importantly their unlimited package is the biggest success.

So what is this unlimited package all about?

• One can host any number of websites on one account.
• One can really use any amount of DISK SPACE.
• One can exploit their unlimited BANDWIDTH.
• One can use any number of sql databases.
• One can use any number of domains.
• And one gets Unlimited usage.

Then whats the cost of the package?

Its cheap and is economic at 7.95$/yr. Though the basic package starts at 4.95$/yr ( This basic package is not unlimited package. But is best choice for normal usage.)

So, hmm package is ok.. what about hostgator service and uptime?

Yah, coming to the point. Its extremely cool and good. You can get them on phone at any moment and also on mail. They guarantee 99.9% of the uptime like other hosts. But the main difference with the other hosts is they wont really provide you good uptime, where as host gator does.

Wow cool.. so what else are good things about hostgator?

Hostgator is one of the gems in hosting and i am really happy with their service.

What are cons then?

Yah coming to that.. There are some cons with hostgator too. Their package cost is bit expensive compared to other hosts, but if you really want the realiable Host and uptime, my suggestion is hostgator. go for it.
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Checking your Blog stats is an addiction. The first thing you do I am sure just like I used to when you come to work is check your blog stats. Worse if you carry your site with you, you stay awake till the time of stats close just to check how many you’ve clocked today. Then there are anxious moments when you are waiting for the mile stones to be crossed. You bite your nails, chew them some may even puff away and like the stats of your favorite game of cricket you might even start counting the number of hits per minute or what ever your traffic is. Get out of this addiction because you know it is a waste of time. Here are some methods you can adopt.

Fix a Time

You should lay down specific time for checking the stats and do not over step it. Once you know the rate of hits and the gradient of climb so get control over yourself and stick to your schedule.

Avoid Using Side Bars

Using the available side bars for your stats is as good as the real thing. It is only a substitute as potent as the original

E Mail Notifications.

It is better to employ eMail notifications so that you do not lose track of time when you are deeply engrossed.

Entrust the Work

If you are still not confident entrust the work to some one and let him set a pass word that is not accessible to you. It might work.

Practice Self Hypnosis

Short of giving yourself an electric shock when the desire strikes you, you can practice any method of self hypnosis like thinking of a wretched thing or a better thing. Suit your self.

Compulsive Substitute

If you are the compulsive type then it is better to chose another kind to get addicted to.

In the end “Happy Stats”.

Ever since Microsoft launched Bing it has lived up to its predictions to be a Google Killer. The Hundred Million dollars invested on its advertisement has never hurt them and Bing has generated some significant consumer interest to carve out a niche for itself on the World Wide Web. If you happen to be a website owner, you will also notice that in effect, Bing is beginning to notice you considerably.

Lately, there have been more and more SEO related blogs that have been focusing on Bing optimization and it has crossed my mind, should we be optimizing our sites for Bing as well as Google? It is in fact true that Bing has only been going strong for a short while, but it is definitely going to accentuate full speed ahead and will eventually take over Yahoo.

The following tips are for those users who take Bing optimization seriously:

• Bing favors older domains more: which means that for example there are two domains A and B. If domain A is older than B and both are targeting the same keywords, automatically A will be given higher ranking.
• The titles are the key to higher ranking on Bing: Bing is similar to most other search engines has affinity to keyword rich titles. This means you should really concentrate on SEO when writing blog posts or creating content on them. You must not only ensure that the title to be keyword rich, but it should be related to the content as well.
• Bing mostly favors longer forms of writing: When the content of your blog post, article, or web page has more than 300 words, then you are likely to be ranked higher in Bing.
• You must also ensure that you are letting in the MSNBot to your site: which is nothing but the spider that crawls on your site looking for the keywords and text.
• Linking out App.: In Google your rank is affected by linking out, but in Bing it is not so and so feel free to do so on Bing. You must ensure not to do too much as it may affect your Google Rank. I tend not to worry about that because linking is a natural app of the World Wide Web.

I was lately researching about some of the best hosting packages out there and i know many of you have similar doubts in you about the best one to choose in starting up with your website.

I had the same experience like you when i first thought of launching my website. I researched a lot n found many reviews and many comments, testimonials and many more during my initial days of online journey. None of them made me feel comfortable to choose one right away. So i started testing some of the trial packages and paid packages offered by many hosts and found interesting things and features of different hosts. Oh god was i a beast or what?? :O

Anyways, i ended u learning lot of things in my journey. I wanna share my analysis about different hosts that i come across till now. I will try to update the following list with some more hosts too So lets start with GODADDY. the top domain registrar they claim

GODADDY:
Godaddy is the first site anyone come across when you register a domain. It is the cheapest of all the domain registrars out there. But when it comes to hosting, they charge very high amount compared to others. their budget hosting starts at 5$/mo approximately, which is relatively costlier. It gives:

• 10 GB Space | 300 GB Transfer
• 100 Email Accounts
• 10 MySQL Databases
• at 4.99$

This basic package is good for those who want to start a small website for their office or company. since it can handle only one website and the advantage of taking this package is that you will be having your hosting with godaddy which is one of those highly reliable Web Hosts.

Pros of godaddy hosting accounts:

• You will have your account with GODADDY one of those biggest brands for online market.
• Uptime of the we host is really good. They have continuous server maintenance and frequent backups.
• not so costly, if your whole goal is just an account for your little, tiny, cute website or a huge dedicated or virtually dedicated server.
• Good Customer support if you can catch them on phone.

Cons of godaddy accounts:

• You cannot have more than one website per an account.
• Very difficult for Non-U.S customers to contact them. Since they doesn’t have any chat facility except email contact option.
• The basic package is completely useless if you are planning to do some thing more online  and the rest of the packages become costly with increase in the demand of features. Say, you want to host 10 websites and you require 1o different ips for each website then godaddy becomes very expensive that a normal man cannot afford.
• The free goods they promise are really of no use.

Conclusion:

So if you want to buy a deluxe hosting or private server hosting or anything of that sort, then you have to prefer GODADDY. If you want to host only one tiny small cute website, then go with godaddy basic one yr plan.

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Godaddy —-> Best option for simple websites and High&Heavy requirements like virtual servers and private servers.

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When you decide to shift from your blog from your current host there can be several reasons to move your blog to another host. Primarily, the most common reason for this transfer is the unreliable service of the original host, where downloading could take as much as several minutes in a day.

1. Backup the database: Firstly, upgrade your WordPress installation including, files and databases on the WordPress blog. This will help you to have a backup all your uploaded files, images, plug-ins and theme files so that it matches the script version of the new host. WordPress database backup plug-in will be able to help you achieve this task in a snap.
2. Backup the Wp-Content folder: This task can be completed by using FileZilla or any other FTP program. Wp-Content folder is pretty important as it holds your plug-ins, themes and all the uploads (files & images).
3. Install WordPress on your new host: Most of the hosts will provide you an IP address through which you will be able to manage your web host account and will be able to make the changes on it.
4. Delete the old tables: Delete all the tables which were created with your new installation of WordPress.
5. Import the old database: With the help of phpMyAdmin or SQLyog community edition you will be able to import the old database completely.
6. Replace the Wp-Content folder: Replace the wp-content folder which got created with the new installation and approach the new host technical support for more memory space.
7. Customize the new wordpress installation: This is done by editing the required database information found in the file of the root folder of the installation wp-config.php. This has to be done according to the name of the imported database, your user name, password and the host name, which is usually local host.
8. Change the name servers: Change the name server with the help of your domain registrar control panel, you have to change the name server of your existing domain to the name server of your new hosting company and in the next 24 hours your blog will work just like normal.

Quick Tip: If you use Google Apps for email solution for your domain, then don’t forget to change the MX server details too and avoid loosing a lot of important e-mails.

The resizing of width and height attributes on images ensures fast webpage display and conserves bandwidth. Most bloggers use images to spice up their look. I am having an issue with the new image caption feature in Word Press blog. Apparently, it is automatically adding 10px to the width of the caption surrounding the image. Similarly, you may be encountering the same issue with Image Width while using Word Press blog.

The resizing image width is essential when you are adding multiple images to your blog. The default wordpress theme automatically resizes the image to the themes maximum width. But there are always problems while using this wordpress plug-in and there are no immediate solutions as they are coded. The max width attribute is still hard coded. I mainly use 500px wide images, but every now and again I need to post a smaller width image, say like the sausage dog, I can’t really used fixed width divisions because I can’t accommodate for all images.

How Image Width Resizing is possible in Auto Mode?

You need to access your (Sample Style Sheet) style.css that is located in the wordpress theme folder and add the following code:

post img {
max-width: 530px;
width: expression(this.width > 530 ? 530: true);

}

Let us assume that an image posted in your blog was of the size 800px × 130px but it got automatically scaled down to 530px × 120px , which means that it resizes the images to the given width and height respectively. You must find the maximum width of the content part of your blog and save the dimensions in the above given code. Once saved, it starts working and resizes all the images to the given width or size dimensions. With an external style sheet (css), you can change the look of the entire site by changing one file. The custom options include colors for all layout sections. Definitely, your blog can look quite different than someone else’s.

Image Alignment

You can remove the option to float all images left or right site-wide. Instead use the WordPress editors align left or right feature when inserting an image that you want to align left or right as it is less troublesome.

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Have you ever wondered about Increasing Blog Traffic with automatic creation of Images for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?? Here is a simple way to do it.

There is an old adage that “Pictures do speak a thousand words” and so do SEO Friendly Images. It is a Word press optimization plug-in which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. It will add SEO Friendly Images to your search engines according the options you set if your images do not have already set ALT and TITLE. Additionally, this makes the post compatible with W3C/xHTML valid as well.

The ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to the search engine and this is a key determining factor for a match when a user searches for a certain image.

The TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tool tip when mouse is over the image.

Installation

1. Upload the whole plug-in folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plug-in page and activate the plug-in.
3. Then use the Options page to modify ALT and TITLE options.
4. You are done, SEO Image does everything else

SEO Friendly Images options recognize two tags %title (post title) and %name (filename of the picture). When these two tags and additional words (photo, picture etc.) are combined, you can create relevant alt and title tags automatically for all images.

There is one additional option called ‘Override default Word press alt’. If you uploaded pictures to your blog posts already and haven’t specified a description Word press would automatically add a default alt tag in form of image. jpg.

I liven up my blog by placing images on it to illustrate my written thoughts. It gives the impression to my readers that a greater level of importance is attached to content presentation. Mostly, people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than deep reading.

You can take this idea one step forward by using videos to make your points even stronger as it also has the power to communicate your thoughts, opinions and ideas on a much higher level. The public domain works give access to all the photos, videos or content you could ever want for a blog. As you continue to create images you will find that you will begin to make a connection with your readers.

The competition is growing as more sites are being hosted on the web. Earlier, only premium businesses used a website and therefore, it did not carry much leverage. In the last decade, the internet has become the number one gateway for every possible consumable product, which has led to a huge bulge in the web hosting industry.

Web hosting has come to stay as one of the most highly consumed services on the internet as it offers global access within a short span of launching a product. This enabled them to offer their services a lot cheaper. This has aided the mushrooming of smaller businesses online and individuals could even afford to start personal websites or blog’s.

Presumably, very soon a price war could erupt between the major hosting companies. The competition has added to the decline in the rates for hosting a website or blog. Basically, most consumers lack technical knowledge which is a great handicap while comparing one web hosting service with another. In fact some cheap services are actually superior in quality in comparison with the premium services.

Budget Hosting Sites

The cheaper ones are popular as budget hosting sites. They are the target of certain brands to ensure they receive a regular flow of business. They offer wealthy features for minimal cost and provide their services to a mass of clients. The more the consumer base, your business has a much bigger appeal which translates into huge profits despite marginal pricing. Mostly, a majority of these site holders are resellers.

Premium Hosting Sites

They offer a wide range of potential benefits. These are simply not provided in a cheap hosting account. This includes the speed of the service with minimum loading time and quality service with features highlighting the costs, warranty and a quick access to all minute details of the product. This is the most crucial requirement to retain customers and convert potential ones. They segregate the smart firms from the dumb ones.

Conclusion

Personally, I’d definitely choose a premium service over a cheap web hosting service for businesses, as I wouldn’t want to risk losing potential, long term customers. I would recommend cheap hosting for current users of web hosting for a hobby or portfolio based site, where revenue is not really an issue. Especially, business based websites need to spend the extra few dollars to ensure that they are using a premium service.