CPanel has become a very popular web hosting platform / software, and once you migrate to your own domain or buy a new one, your hosting company will most likely provide you with the cPanel software pre-installed on your domain for your ease. In fact, it has now become the industry standard for hosting companies. For those of you who are acquainted with web-hosting, you will know how important such a software can be. It puts a lot of tools and features at your finger tips, thus allowing you to stop worrying about the management and concentrate on the domain itself. But for beginners, especially those who have no prior web-hosting experience, it could be a challenging and confusing environment. Here are some basic settings every beginner should set to ensure his domain is safe and secure.
MBT is back as promised with yet another special discount coupon on one of the largest web hosting provider on the internet. HostGator has once again graced us with some a discount code that gives a 25% discount on all HostGator purchases, instead of the seasonal 20%, and we will share this great discount coupon code with our loyal and beloved readers. Using this discount, you will get $44.55 OFF for Hatchling Plan, $71.55 OFF for Baby Plan and over $116.55 OFF for Business Plan. And with such great discounts, we sometimes wonder how they are still in business, and serving everyone with the best quality of service.
We use HostGator as our webhost for all our blogs under the STC network. HostGator's customer support is simply amazing. You can connect with them through live chat within seconds, and their representatives will solve your problems out in minutes. You might not get a better value for your money anywhere else. This discount offer expires October 15th 2012, so you have some time to think over it before choosing HostGator as your webhost. Let's look at why you should consider HostGator before all else
If you own a blog or a website and look forward to earn with it, you need to take care of a lot of technicalities other than attracting traffic and producing quality content, which are also essential for a consistent earning. It has been seen that the main center of attention for bloggers is to ensure whether their content is available to their potential users on search engines or not, which is undoubtedly justified. To ensure that what you are sharing with your potential readers is actually been offered to them while they are searching about it on search engines, website testing is a good practice. According to the latest release, Google has encouraged website testing and found answering several questions about it. We will discuss Google recommendations in latter part of the post, but for now, let us see what Website testing is all about!
Blogger is one of the most easy-to-use, and popular blog publishing platform. Hundreds of people create blogger blogs every day. And while having a sub-domain blog (like .blogspot or .wordpress etc) is convenient, free, and ideal for beginners, buying a custom domain of your own has numerous advantages of its own. There are many services you can buy domains from. One such great service is GoDaddy. When it comes to domain registration, no one beats this company. It has more than 53 Million domains registered through it. GoDaddy also provides web hosting, and more than 5 million websites are taking advantage of its hosting services. In this post, we'll talk about why you should buy a domain from GoDaddy for your freely-hosted Blogger or WordPress blog.
Now when you have created a Gmail account for your website using Google apps for domains, its time to convert the complex web address into short, easy-to-remember web address. For example to access your Email account you need to type a long address such as: 
Wordpress users do surely know about Gocodes. Gocodes is a URL redirection/shortener plugin available only for wordpress users but now thanks to Google apps you don't even need such plugin and can easily shorten URLs using your very own domain. You can now easily hide and redirect your affiliate links in Blogger too using Google Short Links. You no more need URL shortening services like ow.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl, bit.ly, etc to create tiny web addresses for your links. You can now do it for free using your Google Apps account. This method let's you create easy to recall shortcut URLs to any web address on the internet. It will let you mask complex affiliate links and help you share them on your blog, twitter or Facebook more efficiently. 
One of the very first things that any web owner likes to do after purchasing a domain is setting up a branded Email address ending with the domain name. Blogger users who purchase a domain often find it difficult to set the MX records in their webhosting account, thus they don't bother using a branded email address. If your website address is www.example.com then your branded email Id would look like yourname@example.com. You will be able to access it using the address mail.example.com. The best thing about todays' tutorial is that we wont be using inefficient webmail services like roundcube, squirrelmail or horde that you often find in your hostgator webmail clients. We will be using Gmail, which means you will manage all emails received at your website's email address straight in your very own custom Gmail account. You can also create up to 10 email addresses using your domain without paying a penny with Google Apps. You will stay safe, protected and most importantly served well. Lets now create a Gmail account for your company's website or blog and connect it to your web host in easy steps.
Its always overwhelming when we see such a great deal of concession from one of internet's largest web hosting companies. Each month or on special occasions, HostGator gifts us with a special discount coupon that gives us 25% off on any hosting package we buy this Summer. The discount this time has been really exciting and we would surely not keep it with us but would share it as usual with all our loyal readers so that you get a cut-off price as high as $116. The exclusive coupon code that we received today will give you $44.55 OFF for Hatchling Plan, $71.55 OFF for Baby Plan and over $116.55 OFF for Business Plan! We are really pleased with the uptime and server response and unlimited disk space and bandwidth that Hostgator provides. Both our blogs and un-released project websites are proudly powered by this blue Alligator and I feel no hesitation in giving all credits to the great customer support service of hostgator who help us 24/7 with all technical help needed . This time we have a lot of time to sign up and kick off a new blogging or business plan. We have a total of 2 Months which means our coupon would expire by the end of June 30 2012. But before you may sign up make sure you learn in detail on why this web hosting company has become a brand for all pro bloggers. Lets see some of its features and hosting plans.
Fortunately just another great day for all MBT readers. We just received a second discount coupon from our current web hosting company i.e. HostGator. These guys are really crazy and it makes me wonder how come they are still surviving with such an extra ordinary customer response despite so much discount and extremely low web hosting price offers. Just this year we lunched our second blog with HostGator,which is a Wordpress based blog. The credits for the blog's load time, server response, and uptime service goes to this Blue Alligator. Today we received an exclusive coupon code for all web hosting plans which will give you over $44 OFF for Hatchling Plan, $71 Off for Baby Plan and over $115 OFF for Business Plan! We have already upgraded both our blogs to Baby plan from hatchling for 3 years registration with an extra charge of just $78 which surely overjoyed us two months back. This coupon code expires April 28th 2012, so we have 25 days left to make a wise purchase. Lets first understand some important features of this great Host before you buy any plan.
We were badly waiting for this level of concession by HostGator and today it feels great. We previously shared discount coupon codes for 25% OFF for any hosting package that you purchase from HostGator and today we received an exclusive coupon code for Baby and Business hosting packages which will give you up to $85 Off for Baby Plan and $140 OFF for Business! We will be upgrading our Hatchling plan to Baby plan by making use of this great opportunity. This coupon code expires January 23 so we have 6 days left to make a purchase. I would be sharing below some details which you should keep in mind before using the discount code.
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No matter whatever blogging platform or content management system (CMS) you may be using, the topic today will discuss reliable and affordable web hosting plans that you can purchase to kick start your blogging career. Advertisers and direct sponsors have started giving more value to blogs which are self hosted and produce quality content. Here we will discuss how to transfer your current domain to HostGator and at the same time buy a reliable hosting plan. We will also answer some frequently asked questions to keep things clean and clear.
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Note: This is part1 of our series on choosing Best Hosting for your Blogs. I will be sharing my personal experiences here, technical details, personal help, web hosting plans and discount coupon codes.
