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 anandsaini writes "By Anand Saini
When developing and maintaining websites, analysis plays a significant role in maximizing the effectiveness of the site. There are a number of resources and tools for analyzing web pages, and this post looks at 20 of the best free tools for this purpose. Almost all of them require no account or download to be used.
There are a variety of different tools represented here. Some will analyze one specific aspect of a page and others will give an overall grade to the page as a whole. Most of them will help you with your SEO efforts. Try a few of them that looking interesting and helpful.
Website Grader from HubSpot and http://seoarena.org/
1.Website Grader is one of my favorite tools on the list because of how helpful and usable it is. You’ll get a lengthy report broken into various sections with an evaluation of the page and recommended changes. While the grade is helpful to know where you stand, the suggestions are more valuable because they help you to identify areas for improvement, and many of them can be pretty simple.
2.Trifecta from SEOmoz
One of the more unique tools in this list, Trifecta will analyze a page, a blog, or an entire domain based on slightly different criteria. Trifecta will produce numbers based on a variety of factors and it will give you an overall score. Without a pro membership you’re limited to one report per day.
3.Spider Simulator from Summit Media
This tool will give you a good idea of how search friendly you site is, and it will also give you a percentage rating. It bases the rating on factors like meta tags, use of headers, images and alt tags, load time, and links.
4.Web Page Analyzer from WebsiteOptimization.com
This free tool will give you plenty of information to work with. It will test how long the page takes to load, how many objects are on the page, the size of the objects and more. The most helpful part of the report that is produced is the “Analysis and Recommendations” section where it will list 11 aspects of the page and give you a rating. Red items are warnings, yellow items are cautions, and green items are good.
5.SEO Analysis Tool
Get a lengthy and detailed report from this tool. It will analyze things like your meta tags, keywords, and anchor text on the page. It’s a good resource for getting a nice overall look at the SEO of your page.
6.The Escape’s Web Page Analyzer
This tool will help you to identify problems with heading structure, links, use of keywords and content. It’s not as detailed of a report as some of the others, but the information that’s provided is helpful and it features a better presentation than most other tools.
7.Seed Keywords
Seed keywords offers a “plain English SEO review” that analyzes certain aspects of a page and makes recommendations. It provides a basic explanation of why elements that are analyzed will impact the SEO of the page.
8.Web Page Analyzer from FreeWebSubmission.com
This tool gives you a general overview of the page and a number of specifics that have been analyzed. Like many of the other tools, it will analyze your meta tags and make suggestions if it finds that any improvements are needed. It also looks at the size of the page and the load time, keywords in the anchor text of the page, keywords in alt tags, and the keyword density.
9.Spider Test from We Build Pages
The Spider Test tool will give you a quick, simple look at how your page appears to search engines. It will show the page title, description, keywords, size of the page, the text of the page, and more.
10.Web Page Analyzer from Webmaster Toolkit
This Web Page Analyzer will allow you to specify a URL and a targeted phrase for search engines, and it will give you some feedback on how well the page is optimized for this phrase.
12.Link Appeal from Webmaster Toolkit
Do you want to see if a certain page (on your site or on someone else’s) is valuable place from which to get a link? Enter the URL and it will give a score based on a few factors like PageRank and number of outbound links.
13.Full Page Test from Pingdom Tools
This tool from Pingdom will analyze a number of aspects of the page, including load time, objects, CSS, RSS, redirects and more.
14.SearchEngine-Analysis.com
Enter a URL and a targeted keyword or search phrase and you’ll get a basic report that will give you an indication of how well you are doing in competing for that phrase.
15.Web Page Speed Test from Self SEO
This is a simple way to see how your pages compare to those of other sites. You can enter up to ten URLs to test at one time, which makes it easy to see how your pages stack up.
16.Similar Page Checker
Help to detect and avoid duplicate content penalties from search engines by comparing two pages to see how similar they are, from the perspective of a search engine. If they’re too similar you can make modifications to distinguish them and avoid having them seen as duplicates.
17.Dead-Links.com
Dead links can be extremely frustrating for visitors, but checking for dead links can be a time-consuming task. Fortunately, this tool will allow you to enter a URL and it will crawl through the site and look for links that return 404 pages.
18.Firebug
The Firebug add-on for Firefox provides a number of development tools. For the purposes of analysis, Firebug will allow you to monitor and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from within your browser.
19.YSlow for Firebug
Another Firefox add-on, YSlow will analyze your page to make suggestions for how you can speed up the page. YSlow is integrated with Firebug.
20.Google Webmaster Tools
Google provides a number of helpful analytical reports within Webmaster Tools. You can see which phrases your ranking well for, what pages are causing problems for Google when crawling your site, which pages are getting the most links, and much more.
21.Web CEO
Web CEO is a full suite of premium tools for optimization and analysis; however, there is also a free version available for download. The free tools will help you to get started with optimizing your site according to its recommendations. With the free version you can get keyword suggestions for your site, optimize your pages, check your rankings, and more.
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anandsaini writes "First thing to consider: Storage Space and Data Transfer:
A small information site or personal site will usually only require a few megabytes of disk space, however, data transfer depends on the size of the pages your are offering your visitors multiplied by the number of visitors. Therefore, a popular and graphics heavy website requires a greater monthly transfer than a text site. You should look at a minimum of 2 GB (2000 MB) data transfer a month for high traffic site (8000 – 10000 unique visitor per day) go for at least 1000 GB per month If your Web site is expected to grow, look for a server that gives you the option of increasing your basic package to another convenient package, or take a package with more storage space to begin with.
Note: It is extremely important to look at the monthly data transfer bandwidth included in a plan.
Second thing to consider reliability:
For any online business, uptime is critical. You absolutely cannot go with a host that has an uptime of less than 95%.
No web host can have 100% uptime, and it’s impossible to guarantee. Avoid any hosts promising more than they can deliver. Most claim 99.9% uptime, but due to the nature of computers and communications equipment, outages will and do occur occasionally. To find the truth ask for a couple of sites they currently host, that you can check out for yourself. The word of mouth is probably most powerful in helping to judge these companies.
Third thing to consider: Technical Support
Critical to success, you'll need an internet hosting company that can help you resolve problems quickly with the least possible disruption to your site activity. As most hosting companies offer inclusive technical support, you shouldn't pay extra for this. If you're not offered 24 hours/7 days you should look elsewhere. If they don't reply within 48 hours, or don't reply at all, consider another hosting company. A good company should reply within 24-48 hours.
Fourth thing to consider: Added Features
Various internet hosting companies offer a variety of services. Web hosters provide a listing of overwhelming features to hosting plans to entice you into joining their services. However, more importantly, what features you need and what ones you don't need.
If you are paying for a website, you should definitely be getting email accounts and FTP access. Don’t settle for a site without them. Make sure the email addresses are for your domain and not at your host’s domain. FTP access is critical is you intend to do any amount of uploading files to your server.
Examples of services include also visitor counts, e-mail forwarding options, real time chat, shopping cart functions, and web statistics. The list goes on.
Fifth thing to consider: Pricing Structure
If the previous four steps check out, then you need to consider price and this can vary widely. You need to consider setup fees, monthly fees, plan discounts and optional extras in your calculations. Don’t let price be the primary factor in your decision unless you are launching a personal page. For ecommerce, businesses and organizations, the quality of the service is more important.
Keep also in mind that the most expensive plan is not necessarily the best, and the biggest name company may not be the right match for you. Many perfectly fine packages for small businesses now run between $7 - $15 per month, for shared web hosting service.
A good web host company will not tie you into a long-term contract that will prevent you moving if you don't like the service.
First thing to consider: Storage Space and Data Transfer
A small information site or personal site will usually only require a few megabytes of disk space, however, data transfer depends on the size of the pages your are offering your visitors multiplied by the number of visitors. Therefore, a popular and graphics heavy website requires a greater monthly transfer than a text site. You should look at a minimum of 2 GB (2000 MB) data transfer a month for high traffic site (8000 – 10000 unique visitor per day) go for at least 1000 GB per month If your Web site is expected to grow, look for a server that gives you the option of increasing your basic package to another convenient package, or take a package with more storage space to begin with.
Note: It is extremely important to look at the monthly data transfer bandwidth included in a plan.
Sixth thing to consider:What type of Web hosting server is offered?
There are two main types of Web hosting servers - servers whose operating system is Windows NT/200x and those using UNIX/Linux.
Some are faster than others, and offer varied features. If your host uses Linux, you are going to get support of probably, PHP, Mysql, and other features. If your host uses Windows, then you're probably going to get the support of CFM, ASP, ASP.net. Pick your OS wisely.
Another main difference between Windows NT/200x and UNIX/Linux servers is that Windows NT/200x servers are not case-sensitive.
Seventh thing to consider : Does the Web hosting server provide back-up and recovery services
Add on services like providing back-up and recovery services become very handy in case of breakdown or hacking?.
Eighth thing to consider :Read the Terms of Service
Reading this is important because it tells you the do's and don'ts of the hosting. If you get a host that is a little infamous you probably aren't going to get the full advantage of a famous host. For example if it says "We do not expect porn sites, videos, etc.." and you are getting the host for a porn site then your account will probably be terminated.
The most important thing to remember is to research and shop around. The more requirements you have, the most likely you pay more. But paying for a quality web host provider is a good investment especially if your business will in the future become more reliant on the Internet.
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Web Host spam-proof your website : Learn Fighting Tips, Tricks and Secrets |
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anandsaini writes "Its a real story, in seven days time two Nigerian spammer based in US found loop holes in two of site hosted by us and sent spam mail to clients through our site,resulting in our server provider closing down our services without any warning.Around 248 sites went blank,we were flooded with calls, mails,threatening calls even from our clients.After lots of persuasion, they forwarded one of the mail copy to us.When we checked ,we found that they used our two sites and spammed.we were forced to shift all the sites on new server and stopped five of sites,which were having loop holes.We took some professional help from experts also about the site vulnerability and rectified them.
So here is articles which came out of our harassment, failure and pains and success.
The United States continues to lead the world in e mail spam, accounting for more than two of every five spam emails.This
awesome figure is astounding, and web experts are predicting that the volume of spam will continue to rise in coming years.
Spam is more than just an annoyance; it can clog mail servers and seriously damage productivity of a reputable company.
Spam-Proofing Your Valuable Website
The person"s who operates their own website knows that you need to provide a way for esteemed visitors to contact you by email. The big challenge is providing easy email access to your visitors, without letting junk mail (SPAM) flood your email inbox.
E-Mail Form security is an issue on every body's mind. Spammer robots are always on the prowl for vulnerable forms. If your e mail form is vulnerable, a spammer's email is sent from your server to thousands of e-mail addresses. With automation, the spammer can submit your form over and over and over.This is not a rosy picture.This could be happening on your server even as you read this. Until your server host shuts you down your one sites or multiple site hosted on one reseller account - for spamming.
Source of spam #1: Domain Name Registrations
Source of spam #2: Web Forms & E-mail Newsletters
Source of spam #3: Your Website
The Big Battle: Securing Your valuable site From Spam bots.
Use JavaScript To Mask E-mail Addresses
Now we will learn , how to save your self from unwanted spamming accidents.
One of the weaknesses that spiders of all kinds suffer from is an inability to process scripts. Adding a small snippet of
JavaScript in place of an email address effectively renders the address invisible to spiders, while leaving it accessible to
visitors with all but the most primitive web browsers.
Being a quality website operator; you would like search engine spiders to visit your site. After all, search engines are the
one of the best source of free traffic on the websites. As a result you don't want them to visit, they are easily kept at a
distance with a well formatted "robots.txt" file.
Here we warn you that, there are another group of notorious spiders out there in web jungle; crawling the web, with an
entirely different purpose. These spiders ; visit site after site, collecting email addresses. You may know them as a
web host are spam bots, email harvesters, or any number of unpublishable names.
Trick 1: Use JavaScript To Mask E-mail Addresses
1. Remove all e-mail links from your Web site. Spam "robots" are continually scouring the Internet in search of new e-mail
addresses. Removing actual links to your e-mail and replacing them with a spelled-out e-mail address such as your.name@yourcompany-name.com can reduce some what your current amount of flooding spam. You can also create graphics or pics. that display your e-mail address in simple text formats. ( As you must know that spam robots can't read the text in graphic forms ) If you have never used your current e-mail address other than for company email, and you're still getting spammed, this may be the real hardened culprit.
2. Never give out your business e-mail address. Many people find that after signing up for a newsletter or registering at a
certain site, they are suddenly flooded with spams. So many low grade companies harvest their visitors' e-mail addresses and sell them to the highest bidder on net. If you are to provide an e-mail address for a sale, purchase, subscription, or
registration, use a non-company account with a free web mail provider, such as yahoo, rediffmail ,hotmail or gmail.
3. Never ask to be removed. Usually persons make the blunder of replying to spam e-mail messages and asking to be removed from the list. Unfortunately, attempting to remove yourself from e-mail lists, may result in even more junk e-mails.
Unsubscribing lets spammers know that they have a "live person on the other end. Now we will learn more about how the spammers operates.
4. Never buy and never reply. Never respond to spam solicitations. Buying products,watching adults free sites that are
advertised in spam messages encourages spammers to continue. If you truly need what's being offered, find it from a reputable business houses. Replying to a spam message is a definitely a mistake, and will almost always result in more spams.
5. Block spams at your server level. Many reputable hosting companies allow you to employ a spam blocker, such as Spam Assassin, at the server level. It means that your spam will be shunted to a particular junk folder before you ever receive it
or see it in your mail box.. No doubt, these e-mails messages will remain on your server until you delete them. Check
randomly or periodically through these messages to make sure that the spams filter were not too harsh or aggressive, and has not mistakenly tagged good e-mails as spam.
6. As a reputable web host or a web designer ; use your e-mail client's built-in spam filters. Most e-mail clients are now
equipped with some sorts of spam filter. Never be afraid to use yours. It may take a little more time to set up, test it but
it will be time well spent, and definitely better than wading through thousands of spam messages in your email boxes.
7. Purchase a reliable spam filter. If your e-mail client's spam filter is not doing the job, you can purchase a commercial
alternative. There are many products out there, including SpamCop, that can filter out even cloaked spam messages. SpamCop also provides a free service to report spammers who are targeting your e-mail address.
8. Disposable Email Address Services
Never insert your real email address in a form on the Web. They might spam you or, worse even, give your address to spammers.
Use a disposable address instead, and choose from a number of services that offer them.Spammers on an average change their domains every three days now, as compared to every week four months ago.
9. Never use your primary e-mail address to sign up for every thing or any thing.You never know that might happen to be an
email address you use to sign up for web sites or newsletters. It might be passed on to spammers for a price and ride.
10. Stop Spam with Disposable Email Addresses.Once your email address gets in the hands of spammers, you will get spam. Lots of it. Find out how to use disposable email addresses to dispose of spam (and spammers) effectively.Use disposable e-mail addresses at your web site.
Disposable email addresses can put an end to the spams you get from mentioning your email address on your home page.
11. Disguise your email address in rss feed , newsgroups, forums, blog comments, chat rooms.
Make it more difficult for spammers to get your address by obfuscating it when you use it in newsgroups, forums and the like.
12. Always ignore delivery failures of messages you did not send .If you wonder why you are getting delivery failures for
messages you know you did not send, the real cause may be a mail worm or a spammer, and it's probably not on your computer.
13. How to report spam with Spam Cop USA. Must complain about spam the right way easily with Spam Cop, which does all the analyzing for you and generates a perfect complaint email, too.
14. Always use a good anti-spam program.Achieve a near spam-free email account by employing one of the great anti-spam tools that filter junk mails using all kinds of latest and clever strategies.
15. How long, a complicated email addresses can beat spammers ? Spam will, eventually, make it to any mailbox. Any? Here's how to make it hard for spammers to guess your e-mail address.
16. Domain Owners: Set up throwaway addresses to fight spam.Create email addresses for use in sign-up forms on the fly to identify and radically ban the sources of spam.
17. Never assume mail from unknown senders is a spam. I don't know you... you must be a spammer! Here's how to use your email address book to identify and filter spam.
18. Dictionary attacks: The spammer takes a "dictionary" of common words and names, combines them, and sends email addressed to all different variations such as anand7@example.com, anand8@example.com, anand9@example.com. Spammers typically do this at
leading email providers that have a large data base of users. G mail, Rediffmail.AOL , Yahoo! Mail's enhanced SpamGuard, for example, can identify and prevent many dictionary attacks.
19. Email spoofing: The spammer trick of choice these days, email spoofing, uses a faked email header that makes an email message look like the message came from someone or somewhere other than the spammer. It's fairly easy to make an email appear that it's sent from your own address or a seemingly credible source. Spammers uses temptation or sensational offers spoofing to get you to open and respond to their mail. Remember; one for all you should never respond to unsolicited email - instead, report it by clicking the "Spam" or "Report Spam" button in your email accounts.
20. Spoofing Bank Service Providers: Many spammers try to spoof or imitate online bank service providers in the hope that you will submit your personal account information. Please be aware that banks or any financial institutions will never ask you to email your personal information such as an ID, password, social security number, credit card numbers, etc. If you receive an email appearing to be from your own banks asking for this type of information, it's spam. Be sure to report this email abuse by clicking your "Spam" or "Report Spam" button.
21. Social engineering: This silly tricks users into opening the spam by pretending to know the person or trying to lure the person with a "personal" subject line. Typical subject lines include "Hey how are you?," "Urgent and Confidential," "We need to meet," "I have money for you," or "It snowed again." Avoid this trick by never responding to unsolicited email. Report it as spam and block the email address.
22. Mining message boards and chat rooms: Never post your email address in public places like-- treat it like you would your
phone number. If your email address appears on a message board, in a chat room, or any public place, spammers can use automated robots, or "bots," to search the Internet and grab your email address. I recommend using something like a Yahoo!
Mail disposable email addresses - available to Yahoo! Mail Plus customers - when visiting message boards and chat rooms. With a disposable email address, you can monitor spam coming into that address and delete it if it gets too much spam.
23. Open proxy, third-party servers: Open proxies are third-party servers that allow spammers to send mail while hiding their true identities and Internet locations (IP addresses). Many spammers use these open proxy servers to help maintain anonymity.
24. Web beacons: An email may contain an image that is invisible to the recipient -- this is sometimes called an "invisible GIF" or "web beacon." Once the email is opened, the spammer is alerted that your address is "live." Don't open email messages if they appear to be spam. Just report them as spam and move on. Additionally, some reputable email service providers have a image blocking features that prevent HTML graphics from loading until you determine the message is indeed from a trusted sender. If your email account has this capability, I strongly suggest that you use it.
25. Inserting random strings of text and characters: To try and get through spam-control filters, spammers will insert random
strings of text throughout the email to make the spam appear unique from other email. Sometimes they do this with email
headers"Spam" by adding spaces and characters like this: F_R_E_E. You can help fight this type of spam by not opening or responding to it and reporting it as spam.
26. Chain Letters: Most of us receive chain letters that invite (or more specifically, urge) us to forward the particular
message on to our friends and families. And many times those letters say, Your E mail has won you the Price for example, that you'll get few hundred dollers (or some monetary amount) for every single email address you forward it to...OR... that you'll have bad luck if you send it to less than five people, or if you don't send it at all!
But beware! These are complete hoaxes! They're created specifically in order to promote and sustain spam!
NEVER, never forward such emails thinking that you'll receive any money. You will not! The only thing you'll actually receive
is even MORE SPAM to your inbox.
In addition to changing the spam settings on your email account, here are some of the best spam-fighting tips:
* Protect your email address - treat it like your phone number.
* Use an email service that offers good spam-fighting tools!
* NEVER send your password, credit card numbers, or other personal information in an email. Your Email Service Provider
will never ask you to send this type of information.
* Don't post your email address in public places (e.g., newsgroups, message boards, chat rooms) where spammers mine for email addresses.
* Use something like a Yahoo! Mail Disposable Email Address when posting online.
* NEVER respond to unsolicited email - this will alert the spammer that your email address is active and valid.
* NEVER click on a URL or web site listed in spam email - this will also alert the spammer that your email address is
active valid.
* NEVER forward spam chain letters.
URL Rewriting
Both the Apache and IIS web servers have plug-in URL-rewriting modules that can be used to provide additional protection to your website, by redirecting queries from known spam bots to a blank page, or to another website. These techniques are beyond the scope of this article, and using them will slow your server down, if only a little.
Some time your clients reporting strange emails being sent through their websites. These emails are automatically generated through online forms and are setup to allow their clients contact them through a simple web interface. However, spammers will setup robots or scripts to search out online forms and attempt to find
weaknesses in them.
If your form might be being hijacked (software used to send hundreds or thousands of spam from YOUR server).Your form handling software is unable to determine whether it is a person or other software submitting the form.
Spammers are now using automated form submission software.
They can't get all of their spew into your mailbox the normal way, so they use the back door. They probably figure all site
owners read email sent from forms on their own web site.
Automated Submission Prevention
Using software or a service that prevents automated submission can be a solution for some site owners.
For others, three prevention methods are described here. They may be used independently or together.
Software File Rename
If the form handling software you're using is a popular title, it might be found by robots looking for the software's usual
file name or names. Renaming each software file (and changing the action attributes of all forms that use them accordingly) could keep your software hidden from spammers' searching robots.
The above only keeps file name searching robots from finding your form submission software. It does nothing to blind robots
searching for the forms themselves.
JavaScript Required
Insert the form using JavaScript every time the web page loads. I am not aware of any automated submission software in use today that can read and parse JavaScript.
To do this, the form must be in an external file and written in JavaScript code. Then the file is retrieved by JavaScript on
the web page where the form is to be inserted.
It's actually not that hard, unless you have a long or complicated form. The "JavaScript Method..." sections of the "'Roll Your Own' JavaScript and PHP Syndication" article at /rollown describe the process.
If you prefer to do it control panel easy, the Master Series at /scripts has several syndication software tools that can be
used for that purpose.
Encoded Values
The value of the form tag action attribute, or the values of other attributes, might be encoded to foil the spammer's robot
that links around looking for forms.
Don't encode HTML tags or tag attributes. Some browsers misinterpret. But attribute values may be encoded and work correctly in all browsers I've tested.
Automated Submission Damage Control
If your form processing software is already on spammer's lists for their automated submission software, here are some things
you can do.
1.Rename the form handling software file (mine.cgi, for example). Renaming the file will invalidate the URL now on the
spammers' lists, causing a 404 error. Action attributes of forms using the software will need to be changed accordingly.
2. This may be a temporary reprieve. Or it could be permanent. It depends on how soon, if ever, spammer or spammer's robot comes to determine the new form handling software URL.Put the form on a different web page. This action would not be enough, by itself, in most cases, because the form handling software URL is already on the spammers' lists. Thus, it doesn't matter where the form is. However, it is an excellent action to take in conjunction with renaming the software file names.
When both software file name and URL of web page form are changed, a robot can't quickly come back to the form and
determine the new URL when a 404 is encountered. It would have to do additional spidering to find the form, which it might or might not be programmed to do.
3. Make an additional installation of your software, leaving the original as is (for the moment). Change your forms' action attributes to use the new installation. Then re-write the original installation with these two lines (assuming Perl):
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Location: http://example.com/thanks.htmlnn";
Replace the http://... URL in the above with the url of your normal "thank you" page. The spammer now thinks the
automated submission is still good and never looks for your new installation. It's a crying shame to let the spammer think
s/he is getting away with something. But then, you're getting away with something, too :)
4. Change form submission software or service to one that has automated submission protection.
When damage control has been accomplished, you may wish to implement one or more of the steps listed in the "Automated
Submission Prevention" section, above.
Additional Automated Submission Prevention Techniques
It's possible to prevent automated submission, or at least most of the time. When a prevention system is bypassed, other measures are put in place. All preventive measures I've considered require programming.
"Type the letters in the image" verification systems are currently effective. They also require real people to go through an extra step just to use your form doing the dance to prove their existence.
A really good system would be transparent for real people, yet effectively block automated submission.
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Domain Names Explained
So you want a domain name... You want your very own "yourcompany.com"
Internet identity. You want to stamp it in your business cards, brochures, and
all your marketing communication vehicles. And you want it know. Problem is:
you don't know where to start. Let's start from the beginning.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is what you type in the browser's address bar to go to a specific
website. Â Â For example, our domain name is:Â
http://www.theinternetdigest.net    (in today's browsers, it is not
necessary to type the symbols http:// any more). A domain name provides an
online identity and a contact point for your business, organization, or project.
Almost every transaction on the Internet relies on a domain name to conduct
commerce, display Web pages, deliver e-mail, and more.
Why Were Domain Names Created?
Websites are located (or hosted) in computer servers. The location of a website
in a server is really specified by a series of numbers, called the IP address
(for example: 63.241.136.31). However, this would be too hard to remember; in
fact, it reminds us a little bit of phone numbers:Â wouldn't it be easier to
just dial U-N-C-L-E Â Â Â J-O-E instead of having to remember a ten digit phone
number?).
The creators of the Internet took this into account, and domain names were
created. Â Â Domain names act like an address forwarding service that directs the
Internet user to the server, and then looks for the IP address that corresponds
to the domain name (geeks like to say: "the domain name resolves to its IP
address").
Domain Names Extensions (or Top Level Domains-TLDs)
A domain level extension (also known as a Top Level Domain) is the letter
combination to the right of the domain name, after the "dot". Â Â Therefore, a
domain name like yahoo.com has what we call a "dot com extension". You will
also find .net, and .org extensions, along with a host of newly popularized
extensions like .biz, .name, .tv, etc., as well as country level domains (.us
for the US, .br for Brazil, .it for Italy, and so on.)
Originally, .com extensions were intended for commercial ventures, while .net's
were intended for use by Internet Service Providers and .org's by non-profit
organizations or groups.  Truth is, this original classification is no longer
accurate, and anybody can register a domain name with those extensions.
If you don't have anything better to do, and you want to see a complete list of
domain extensions,
click here. Â Â
How can I know if a domain name is available?
To see if a domain name is available, you can go to the webpage of any
accredited registrar, and type the name you want in the search box. The program
will immediately tell you if the domain name you want is available.  If the
domain extension that you would like is not available (the .com's are almost
always taken) you can try others, and chances are that your domain selection
will be available (for example, when we chose our domain name,
theinternetdigest.com was taken but theinternetdigest.net was available).Â
Another trick is to add dashes to separate the words (for example: Â
the-internet-digest.com).
How do I register a domain name?
Domain names are registered on-line through accredited domain registrars. Â
There are thousands of companies that offer domain registration services. Â
However, some of them are more reputable than others, offer good customer
service and provide you with a user-friendly interface. As a rule of thumb,
follow these simple rules:
1) Avoid registrars that charge too much (anything above $30/year is too high).
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2) Look for registrars that offer you a comprehensive and easy to use user
interface. Also, since you will most likely have a question or two to ask, look
for those who have an extensive FAQ section and a responsive customer service
team.
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3) Find a registrar that offer Free Domain Forwarding services (this acts as an
insurance policy if your hosting service is down. You can always host a
duplicate version of your website somewhere else and forward your domain traffic
to that location). We've found three companies that offer all these advantages:
Dotster.com
Godaddy.com
Yahoo Domains
In our next issue, we will show you how can you combine your own domain name
with a free web hosting service.
Mario Sanchez publishes The Internet Digest (
http://www.theinternetdigest.net ) a website and newsletter that gives you
useful advice on web design and Internet marketing, one free tip at a time.
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