I must confess to being one of those people who loves to sing along to songs and will often get part of the lyrics wrong. This may be due to the fact that it’s a new song or I simply think my version sounds better. I’m sure lots of people do the same. This brings [...]

Categories: Browsing, Entertainment, Funny

You probably had very hard times if you were ever looking for a fast and reliable freehosting service without ads which would offer enough space and an advanced environment for your website. Maybe you’ve had some troubles with your current paid webhosting as well and are looking for a better one. Either way, you may want to read on.

Categories: The Web

A rule of thumb is that websites or servers go down in an inappropriate moment either when you are sleeping, at work or in another location where you cannot check if your website or server is still up and running. A website that is not available for eight ore more consecutive hours can do serious harm to its reputation and possible revenue that is generated.

Categories: Software, The Web

I’m using Google Adsense for more than two years to monetize Ghacks and experienced some ups and downs. I thought it would be nice to create a graph that would put Adsense revenue in relation to the traffic that my website received. This could give courage to those webmasters who are currently struggling with their Adsense revenue especially when it dropped suddenly while the traffic remained more or less on the same level.

Categories: Adsense, Revenue Sources

You need to use the tools of the trade to check if your website is revealing emails from visitors or yourself. Most webmasters have a contact form somewhere on the page which is sometimes revealing the real email address of the webmaster. But even tricks like adding spaces to the email address, a REMOVEME part, writing (at) instead of @ and other means are recognizable by some email harvesters that do nothing else but to harvest websites and the websites that they link to for new email addresses.

Categories: Security, Software, The Web

I have seen the topic make the Digg frontpage and I was wondering why it exactly did make it. A little bit of common sense which every webmaster should have is all that is needed to know what this new spam preparation comments are all about.

If you do run a website you might have come upon comments that are posted that contain one sentence saying something unrelated but positive about the website or webmaster. Those comments can be clearly identified as spam because they do not add to the discussion or article in any way.

Categories: ghacks, The Web

This one is for those of you, who have a website and would like to display the contents of a RSS feed on that website. It does not really matter if you want to display your own feeds on a different part of your blog or feeds from other websites. FeedFlash is a nice service that takes feed urls and places them in a nice looking and scrollable widget that can be embedded into websites.

Categories: Online Services, The Web

My friend Everton from Connected Internet told me about his guest author project which is running great and suggested that I should also try and find some guest authors who would like to contribute to my blog regularly. His advices are great most of the time and I have decided to give it another try and look for some guest authors who will write articles for ghacks. Regularly does not mean that you have to post every day but at least once a week would be fine.

Categories: ghacks

If you do own a website you probably wondered about the value of it. With value I mean the amount of money that someone would be willing to pay for it. The following information could be very helpful if you need to sell your website, want to buy one or get approached by someone who offers money for your website. It actually happens quite often that webmasters receive mails from companies or individuals who want to buy their domain. Let us examine some factors that play a role in determine the value of a domain.

Categories: Knowledge, The Web