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Ok, we use an affiliate version of GoDaddy hosting. For a while now, it has seemed that our hosting was slow for WordPress. After reading on a completely unrelated topic, I think I found the answer.
I was reading an article by ShoeMoney. In it he talked about Kontera. Kontera will add those hyperlinks to your pages based on keywords. Specifically, it will underline the words, you scroll over the word and an ad will appear. He spoke of how this slows your site. And because not a lot of money was made on Kontera, I figured I’d remove it from the site.
Well, once I removed Kontera from the site, this site sped up considerably. So, hope this helps!
Yes, you can host your website for free. And, it doesn’t have to be a plain old site. You can host your website for free even if you use tools such as WordPress. But, as with all free things, there is usually some cost involved, granted, it may not be an out of pocket expense.
The initial question is “How come I get it for free?” After all, nothing in business is free. Well, hosting companies compensate for this initial loss in a couple ways as follows:
- ALWAYS: No matter what, the hosting company will post ads to your website. This way, they recieve money from new customers, pay-per-click campaigns, or affiliate marketing programs. It’s pretty smart actually. Consider this, all of the people you attract to your website are potential customers.
- They may ask you to purchase something such as a domain name. This way, they did make some money.
- The free hosting may be for a trial period. So, they’ll get money from you eventually.
- If you install software, there may be some limitations. For example, there could be limited fuctionality that you won’t know about until you test out the site.
- They hope that you’ll get frustrated with the ads and actually buy hosting.
If any of these things offend you, you may want to consider paying for hosting. Today, hosting is not that expensive, for example, you can host a site for less than $40 a year. But, if you are looking to test the waters, why not try it before you spend the money. After all, all of the hosting companies will allow you to switch over to an ad free site easily.
We’ve taken some time to track down several hosting companies that will offer free hosting with your domain. Granted, the hosting may be a do it yourself website. NOTE: In most, if not all, cases, the free hosting is a do it yourself website package, or they allow you to install packages such as Wordpress for free. Don’t expect that you will be able to register or transfer your domain name, then upload your entire site via ftp.
List of Free Website Hosting Companies (with domain name purchase):
- GoDaddy
With each GoDaddy domain you get the GoDaddy photo album, quick blogcast, hosting, personalized email account, starter web page, “For Sale” page, parked page, getting started guide, domain forwarding and masking, 100 pack email forwarding, total DNS control, change of registration, status alerts, domain locking, and more.
- 1 AND 1
With each 1and1 domain, you get free private domain registration, host unlimited 1&1 domans, 5 subdomains, 5 host external domains, DNS management, domain forwarding, URL masking, domain contact management, domain access with or without www, 1 email account, supported by IMAP & POP3, 2GB of mailbox space, 200 email aliases, email auto-responder, email forwarding, catch all email addresses, optional spam filter, 1&1 Starter website builder, 1&1 control panel, simple submissions for SEO, and phone support.
- Aplus.net
With each domain, you get a starter page, email address, and 100 email forwarders.
- JumplineJumpline offers domain control, email forwarding 5 POP email addresses, webmail client, and site builder.
What do we recommend? We recommend both GoDaddy and FastDomain.
Why? Both of these offer you the ability to set up a website now. So, if you’re just looking to get your name out and put up something quick these solutions are easy and quick. They also will allow you to upgrade when you’re ready.
If you happen to know of any more, please let us know. It took a while to track these guys down.
Did you know that you could create a website and host it with Google? That’s right, we could have been hosting our website with Google.
What is Google website hosting?
If you have a Google account, you can set up your own site with Google. That’s right. You can even have your domain name point to the site.
So, what is it? Google provides a do it yourself system which allows you to create an unknown number of sites (I have 5 private sites). You can pick out some simple designs and templates, add logos, etc. One of the cooler things about it is that you can add Google Gadgets to it. So, you don’t have to program anything. Plus, there are hundreds of Google Gadgets to add to your site.
How do I create my Google website?
There are a couple of ways to get to it. If you’re starting out, just visit the link http://www.google.com/sites. Here, you can sign up to create your site. Once you’ve signed up, you can use iGoogle to get to it later. If you are already signed up with Google, go to your iGoogle page, http://www.igoogle.com. Look in the top navigation for the link called “Sites”. If you don’t see it immediately, click on the “More” drop-down to find the link “Sites”. If you still can’t find it, click on the “Even More” link to find it.
How do I point my domain name to my Google site?
- First, log into iGoogle and browse to your site using the sites link in the top navigation.
- Look in the top right hand side of your site for the More Actions button, click on it and choose “Manage site”
- In the left hand menu, click on “Web Address”
- Follow the instructions to add your website address, that’s it!
Well, I have to admit, I had no idea what the real meaning of dofollow and nofollow meant. So, with a little research, here’s what I found.
When you are coding, you add a link, simple right. Well, you can add a parameter to your link to state whether or not you want search engines to follow the link and crawl the page on the other end. In order to do so, you would add rel=nofollow. If this parameter is at the end of the link, then the search engine would not follow the link. If you want the search engine to crawl the page referenced in the link, you would just leave it alone.
So, what’s the problem. Well, it became an issue a while ago due to sites taking advantage of this linking. So, applications such as WordPress started automatically adding the rel=nofollow to the dynamic links such as comments. Who would know this right?
So, how does it affect you? Well, if you’re using WordPress, your links may have the nofollow attribute on it’s links. So, if someone adds a reference to another site, Google won’t crawl it. This might not be so bad considering the amount of spam that’s out there. But, what if someone posted a link or comment on your site that is valid. Wouldn’t you want to reward them? Of course you would want to reward them. And, as it turns out, people pay attention to this. It’s a matter of time and efficiency. If you want to post a comment to a site, you want some perks. So, those that are knowledgeable will look at your site to see if you “dofollow” exists. If they see this exists, they’ll post to your site. Therefore, you’ll get more links.
In order to make this a dofollow site, we installed the plugin DoFollow.
