The promo code to use for availing this awesome low domain name sale offer is love99 .

You can register only one domain per account login. So to register more domains for this low price, sign out of your godaddy account and sign in again! Doesn’t seem to work. If anyone knows of a way to register multiple domains with this code please let us know.

Go think about some killur domain name and register it at GoDaddy for just 99 cents! It’s the lowest ever!

P.S. If you need hosting, use my promo code isb8 at DreamHost.com to get $50 off on hosting!

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Go to the address bar of your browser and type your blogs address. Once with WWW in it and second time without WWW .

Example : Type iSimplyBlog.com and then www.iSimplyBlog.com

In an ideal scenario iSimplyBlog.com should do a 301 redirect (meaning moved permanently) to www.iSimplyBlog.com

Why is this necessary?

Well, search engines won’t be able to understand otherwise that iSimplyBlog.com and www.iSimplyBlog.com are one and the same site!

You can either have non-WWW redirect to WWW or the other way round.

I chose non-WWW to WWW simply because Google does the same ;o)

What You Can Do

1. Check the type of redirect (if any) here

2. If there is no 301 Moved Permanently then read further

3. Copy paste the below code to your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.*$

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Read This post for more details. I got the above code from the same site.

Hope you now have a 301 redirect to one of the URL types.

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I came across this cool offer from DreamHost which was mentioned by QuickOnlineTips that gave away 2 year hosting at 95% off !

The offer ends on 4th of January 2009 , just a few hours more to go. So I suggest you try this at the earliest.

A lot of my friends could make use of this killer offer but some were not able to.

Every time the promo code 202 was used, DreamHost gave an error saying

Promo Code Error: Promo Code Invalid for your Region.

If you happen to face this problem, then try accessing DreamHost using the proxy 200.66.97.6 and port 8080 .

Please note this method might prove to be unsafe for making transactions using your credit cards. So do it with caution and if there’s no other option available.

To set the proxy in your browser do the following :

Set Proxy Server for Firefox :

• Go To Tools
• Options
• Click on Advanced tab
• Click Network tab under Advanced
• Click Settings
• Select Manual Proxy Configuration
• In HTTP Proxy enter 200.66.97.6 and enter port as 8080
• Select the checkbox Use this proxy server for all protocols found just below the text box

How to Set the Proxy Server for Opera :

• Goto Tools
• Select Preferences
• Click on Advanced tab
• From the left menu select Network
• click on the Proxy Servers Button
• Select HTTP as well as HTTPS
• Enter 200.66.97.6 and port as 8080 for both HTTP as well as HTTPS
• Click OK

How To Set Proxy for Internet Explorer 7

(might be the same for Internet Explorer 6)

• Go To Tools
• Select Internet  Options
• Click the Connections tab
• Click on the LAN Settings button
• Tick the Check Box Use a Proxy server for your LAN
• Click the Advanced button
• In HTTP type 200.66.97.6 and enter 8080 as port
• Select the check box Use the same proxy server for all protocols
• Click Ok for all the dialog boxes that are open

Your proxy is now set. Open a new tab and go to DreamHost Signup ,

Select Domain Hosting

Select 2 Year Plan and enter the promo code 202 .

I hope you people are able to make use of this amazing offer from DreamHost.

A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!

PopUri comes in handy when you need to get the detailed information regarding Page Rank, Alexa Ranking etc. for a blog belonging to you or your competitor.

The site also offers you a widget which has information about your blogs ranking obtained from various sites. This can be a handy widget and clean away the mess that we get to see on a lot of blogs caused due to embedding rankings from various sites separately.

Here’s the widget displaying my blogs information :

Smush.it optimizes your images so that visitors of your blog have to spend less time waiting for images to download.

WP Smush.it uses the Smush.it api to compress any images uploaded by you automatically. So this practically eliminates the need to visit the site every time you add an image to your post. It’s all automated baby ;o)

The plugin download page says:

Every image you add to a page or post will be automatically run through Smush.it behind the scenes. You don’t have to do anything different.

Get WP Smush.it

Oxite , as it is called is not just a blogging platform. It has much more than that.

Alright, at first look, it seems it’s got just about everything you would need to build any type of website.

The site says:

Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. We know this because it runs MIX Online.

The main site, visitmix which acts like a community for web designers and developers also uses Oxite .

Some of the exciting features of Oxite:

• Pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting
• Gravatar support
• RSS feeds at any page level
• Support for MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy)
• Web admin panel
• Support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser’s search box
• Add pages as a child of another page
• Support for multiple blogs on one site

Oxite was released on December 5, 2008 and is currently in Alpha.

Oxite requires:

• ASP.NET MVC
• SQL Express 2005 or 2008

From what I know, you would need a windows based hosting plan to be able to run Oxite. This can be a let down for all those who are on Linux hosting.

If you plan to use Oxite for your site, do not forget to notify them about it since they would be putting up a link to your site from the main site!

Download Oxite

I guess all the wordpress.com users have been anxiously waiting for favicons on their blogs.

The folks at wordpress have come out with Blog+Avatar = Blavatar

Your Blavatar, serves as your favicon as well as displayed in other blogs if you comment on them or link back.

To get blavatars for your wordpress.com blogs, go to Settings in your dashboard and upload an image as your Blog picture. Save the image and then you would be able to see it.

That’s it! You now have a favicon for your wordpress.com blog!

Update:

1. If your Blavatar does not appear in the address bar as the favicon then try viewing your blog in a different browser. Clear the cache. It should work.

SocioFluid is a social bookmarking widget that can be added to almost any blogging platform. Be it blogger, wordpress or any other blogging platform, if you are allowed to add javascript then this widget can be put to use.

For blogger and self hosted wordpress  blogs, there’s already a plugin available.

For other blogging platforms, users can copy paste the code that can be generated by visiting the site.

Hope your users like this social bookmarking widget. Go prepare your blog for some social traffic and before that, bookmark this post ;o)

This is where the Creative Commons Search comes in handy. Creative Commons Search searches from such sites as google , yahoo , flickr and a few more sites for free images, videos, music etc.

You don’t need to worry about being accused of plagiarism anymore! Go ahead, find that perfect pic, music or video for your blog post and use it without having to worry about licenses.

If you use Mozilla Firefox browser then you can search Creative Commons work directly. Have a look at the image below for details. (Click the image to enlarge)

From the site:

http://search.creativecommons.org will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon utilizing Creative Commons enabled search services at Google , Yahoo! , and Flickr .

All you need to do is enter the url of your website and WebsiteGrader will analyze and display the results of your site. You don’t even need to register to get your free report!

The site takes a lot of factors into consideration including you google page rank, alexa rank, technorati ranking, your sites presence on bookmarking sites, the number of inbound links to your site etc.

You can see a sample report here.

What they say:

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.