Looking for a new domain name?

Not sure how to choose a domain name yang sesuai dengan perniagaan ataupun personaliti anda? Following are ten short tips to help you pick out a domain name.

Once you are ready, head over here and register you domain name with us:

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   Fist Choice is .COM. Kalau boleh, pilih .COM domain if your chosen name is still available, regardless of whether you are based in Malaysia, Singapore or anywhere else. If it is taken, then only go for .NET, .ORG or country domains like .COM.MY (Malaysia)

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   Tidak mengandungi numbers, dashes unless you have you choice. (abc.com is better than .-bc.com or a7bc.com)

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   Senang untuk disebut dan eja kerana takut orang salah eja or can’t remember the name. You want to be memorable.

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   Shorter is better? Why? Coz its easier to remember.

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   Follow your brand/company. If you already have an established brand like “Kopi Mak Tim” than it only makes sense to register the domain kopimaktim.com

6. 6.

   Register multiple names. Domains are pretty cheap nowadays. If you have already registered abc.com, why not register abc.com.my sekaligus? Sometimes people forget which is which and this way they can access your website melalui kedua2 doamin

7. 7.

   Buy a registered domain. if you have to and can afford to, you can also make a bid untuk domain yang telah didafter. Afterall, there is a proce for everything. For the average business owner this would be considered a luxury.

8. 8.

   Keep it under one umbrella. So katakan you buy 3-10 domains, make sure you keep them registered with the same company, like Maxhosting :) Why? Coz its easier to manage. Even if you currently have your domains all over the place, you can transfer them to…say us :D

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   Be Creative. Domains don’t have to be boring. There are a lot of domains out there that make use of subdomains and TLD extensions to create very memorable names. Like del.icio.us. They registered icio.us, than created a subdomain “del”. Pretty cool huh.

10. 10.

    Re register on time! Very important. The last thing you want is for your domain to expire and have someone else buy it. if you forget to pay, anyone that sees it can grab it.

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Following post is taken from Sitepoint.com, view the original post here.

50 Tips to Get Your Blog Ranked in Google (Part 1)

Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They’re easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.

Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that’s been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do.

So here are 10 daripada 25 tips to get your blog ranked by the world’s biggest SE.

…Want to start blogging? We at maxhosting can get your started with your own blog…just like our blog here or Irfan Khairi’s blog….its very easy and oh so powerful….also view our rates to help you get started….

1. 50.

   Build your own or move to Wordpress. Wordpress is a blog platform that’s open source (free), robust, extensible and easy to use. Add Feedburner, which equips site owners to broadcast RSS feeds and develop user metrics. Next, synch up Google Analytics and a sitemap plug-in to simplify populating the blog and developing useful, actionable metrics. Also, make sure your blog is pinging www.technoratti.com and other social-ranking sites like www.digg.com.

2. 49.

   Don’t worry about page rank. PR is highly over-rated as a yardstick of online success. Connectivity within a web community and expansion through content syndication and guest blogging are more critical to building site credibility than page rank. PR will take care of itself over time if you do it right.

3. 48.

   Make a difference, or at least have a clear purpose. Differentiate your content on every post. Cover lots of editorial ground.

4. 47.

   Use a conversational tone. Dry, starchy academic writing is strictly for the textbooks. Write words that people “hear” instead of read.

5. 46.

   Provide a “Tell Your Friends” link on your blog. Birds of a feather do, indeed, flock together. So, if one of your regulars shares an interest in philately, chances are s/he has other friends with an interest in stamp collecting.

6. 45.

   Study the competition. They’re studying you. Check out spyfu.com to do a little undercover work on search analytics employed by competitor sites and their visitors. You can’t touch the content but you can’t copyright an idea, either, so pick up some new paths of thought from others in your site’s arena.

7. 44.

   Remember SEO basics. Use provocative, keyword-rich title tags, meta keywords and descriptions, and only link to high-quality sites. Never over do it. Keep your posts relevant, natural, accurate and, above all, current.

8. 43.

   Don’t stuff blog post titles with keywords. It’s a form of keyword stuffing and spiders hate keyword stuffing. The ratio in headlines should be 40% keywords, 60% non-keywords.

9. 42.

   Submit your URL to blog directories. There are “best of the web,” and paid directories, like Yahoo, and free directories like the Open Directory project at www.dmoz.org. Every directory listing is another link to your site and another way visitors can find you. Just google them to find more.

10. 41.

    Create blog categories that contain keywords, i.e., Ecommerce, SEO, Affiliates, etc. for use with a “site hosting” or “site design” blog.

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    Content quality counts. Research topics about which target readers want to learn. Write something new, useful and relevant. And don’t forget to regularly update older posts. Things change fast on the web so last year’s “next big thing” is this year’s hackneyed cliché.

Ingin baca lebih, layari SiteProNews.com.

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Berikut adalah 10 tips asas untuk mempamerkan gambar (images) di laman web anda dengan betul:

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   Save gambar dalam format jpg, gif ataupun png

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   Gunakan “Save as web” untuk compress gambar dan kecilkan saiznya. Photoshop adalah applikasi yang terbaik.

3. 3.

   Dalam struktur laman web anda, simpan kesemua gambar di dalam folder “images”.

4. 4.

   Create subfolder, jika perlu, dalam folder “images” untuk mengemaskinikan category gambar anda.

5. 5.

   Apabila create folder atau sub-folder, gunakan semua huruf kecil and TANPA jarak (cara betul - “bukit_tinggi” atau buktitinggi, cara salah “bukit tinggi”).

6. 6.

   Dalam web page anda, pastikan link gambar adalah kepada /images/filename.jpg bukan link kepada file gambar pada komputer anda (”My Documents/etc - salah!).

7. 7.

   Alignment lari? Gunakan style tag seperti “align”, “float” dan lain2. Rujuk kepada link di bawah.

8. 8.

   Ikuti tutorial ini.

9. 9.

   ataupun yang ini.

10. 10.

    Ada soalan? Hubungi kami.

Good luck…practice makes perfect.

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Wordpress adalah blog/content publishing system yang paling popular dan senang untuk digunakan. Lagi2 ia adalah percuma dan terdapat pelbagai plugin untuk pengunaan masing2. Berikut adalah pilihan top 10 kami di Maxhosting:

1. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.

2. All in One SEO Pack

Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization)

3. WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and

4. Viper’s Video Quicktags

Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of YouTube, Google Video, Stage6, IFILM, Metacafe, MySpace, FLV, Quicktime, and generic video files into posts.

5. Lightbox JS v2.03.3 Plugin

Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. Also check out out post on videobox here.

6. cforms II - contact form

cforms II is an extremely customizable, flexible & powerful contact form plugin. A plugin we implemented on kevin zahri’s contact page

7. Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Allows you to track stats and much much more.

8. Share This

Share This is a plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail. Great to get your sites linked to more sites.

9. SimpleFlickr

This plugin allows you to embed a Simpleviewer Flash Object integrated with a Flickr account. For Picasa users go here.

10. Popularity Contest Which of your posts/pages are most popular? Make sure they are visible at all times.

Looking for more great wordpress plugins. Check the following links:

• Official Wordpress Plugin Page
• Smashing Magazine Wordpress Plugin Guide
• WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog

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