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I got some news from fellow webmasters this morning that .COM domains at godaddy are available at .99 cents each. I guess many of you already know this since it has been spread all over the net already. I just thought I’d post it here as well and save some of your money. Normally, you’ll have to spend 7$ + ICANN fee for .com domain (after using certain coupon), but now you can save up to 6 dollars.

I want to buy a domain, how do I register for just 0.99$?
To register a domain name, first select your domain name and go to check out page. On check out page, there should be an option to enter coupon codes, enter “test99” as the coupon code and you’ll see the price decreasing to 0.99$ + ICANN fee, which works out at 1.19$. Just complete the transaction and you’ll see the domain on your account.

You just saved 6 dollars, isn’t that cool?

However, there are some restrictions that apply:

1. The coupon only works 1 time per account.
2. Your account must be old one. You can’t use a new account for this.

Sounds fair. Obviously, if GoDaddy keeps offering unlimited amount of .com names for 0.99$, they’ll be in huge loss.

Anyways, I’m thinking of a nice domain name to register. I don’t want to miss this opportunity. You shouldn’t miss either, so what are you waiting for? go, grab your domain for 99 cents! :p

And about the contest, I’ve already sent entries to some people - may be 25% or so, and will be sending to others after some time. The winners will be announced tomorrow, so please keep checking. Or if you’ve already subscribed, you’ll receive an notification from us.

If you visit quite often here, you know that we opened an contest about a month ago. We’ve had a lot of entries and are extremely happy with the results so far. I just wanted to notify the ones who haven’t entered the contest yet that this is your last chance to do now. You can be the lucky one and win decent amount of cash and may be a couple of domains, or more if you’re very lucky.

After about 24 hours from now, we’ll send out all the entries to everyone who has participated in this contest. If you enter the contest after 24 hours from now (It’s almost 12 am here, +5.5 GMT), your entry will be considered as invalid. On the September 2nd, I’ll use Random.org to randomize the entries, take an screenshot and post it here. The winners will have to email us in order to claim your prizes.

Note: The winners will only have 7 days to contact us. If the prize(s) aren’t claimed within 7 days of announcement, I’ll re-draw the entries again and give the prizes to someone else instead.

Anyway, if you’re yet to enter the contest, please do so now. There’s a good chance of winning some cash and domain names.

Sorry for not posting for fairly long period. To be honest, I didn’t posted here more often as I should be ’cause I don’t have ideas on posting. So if you’ve got some ideas, or interested in guest posting to get decent exposure, make sure you contact me!

Lets come back to the topic. In this post, I’m going to share some tips which can get your site indexed pretty quickly; no more than 2 - 3 days. Although I can’t guarantee you that ALL of your pages will be indexed, I can guarantee you that at least some of your pages will be indexed including the home page, if you follow the tips properly. This is surely gonna help many people. May be if you’re doing website flipping, most of the times, you’ll buy a domain, build the site and sell it within a day or so. Obviously, your site will not be indexed so soon and you can implement some of these tips to get it indexed. Getting your site will bring in more potential buyers, so this is definitely worth trying.

Before I start writing my tips, I just wanna say that please follow as many tips as possible to increase your chances of getting indexed quicker.

Create an sitemap. There are many SiteMap generators out there, search on google and find a decent one. Make sure you upload sitemap.xml to your root directory. This certainly does help you in getting indexed pretty quick.

Submit to digg.com. This tip is something which I follow most of the times when I need my sites to get indexed. Try to submit as many pages as possible. If your website has got hundreds of pages, just submit some of your main pages. For me, I mostly flip content sites which have got about 10 pages or less, so I submit all pages to digg. Don’t care about how many diggs you get, just submit your pages and you’ll see your site getting indexed within 2 - 3 days.

Get a backlink from website that has been already indexed. Although this is something what I haven’t done so far, but have heard it works. If you have any other websites which are already indexed on google, you can backlink the site you want to get indexed and it should get indexed very soon. If you’re implementing this tip, my recommendation is to get a backlink to your site from homepage and website which search engines love.

These are the three tips which are coming to my mind at the moment, but there are many other ways of getting your site indexed quickly. However, these should be sufficient enough to get indexed.

If you’re uncertain regarding how to implement them, please leave a comment and I’ll try getting back to you as soon as possible. I hope these tips will help you and your sites to get indexed faster.

Yes, you heard it right! yet another version of WordPress has been released! I came to know after logging into one of my other blogs. The people who are using the 2.6 version of wordpress should see sorta note saying “WordPress 2.6.1 is available! Please update now” which means yet another release from wordpress.org.

I am yet to upgrade this blog.. and several more blogs which I am currently running. I guess I’ll probably upgrade tomorrow or later tonight. I was busy all day in celebrating Independence day and have some things to deal with tonight. If you haven’t upgraded yet, make sure you do so soon.

I am assuming I had mentioned the steps to upgrade in the past, however I’ll mention it again which will be explained in a better way, and anyone should be able to understand it easily.

Step 1 - download WP.

Step 1 is to download the WP files. For example, if you’re upgrading to WP 2.6.1, you’ll have to download its files before you do anything.

Step 2 - Back up your database and files.

The second step is to backup your database and all the files. It’s very important step ’cause if you mess up anything whilst upgrading, you’re screwed! I always backup my databases and files before upgrading wordpress to ensure if the upgrading part has failed, I can always re-install WP.

To back up your database, go to your dashboard > manage > export and export your database. Most of the times, they’re only a few mbs in size or less. After you’ve got backups, make sure you download all your plugins, themes, etc. if you use any. You can use some FTP programs like FIleZilla or FireFTP (for firefox users) to do this task.

Step 3 - uploading files.

Once you’ve gotten your backups of files and databases, upload all the contents in your WP folder which you downloaded to root directory.

Step 4 - install.

After you’ve uploaded all the files, go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the instructions. It takes only couple of clicks after that to finish off the installation.

For more information about the releases, and to know what bugs have been fixed and the new things has been added, please view their official post.

First of all, before we move further, I am looking for some wordpress themes which would be good for this blog. The theme basically needs to be VERY simple, which search engines love and white background is preferred. I am also planning to monetize this blog with ads, so if it’s ads ready, it’d be better. However, it’s not necessary since I can easily edit the theme a bit. Don’t forget to contact me with some suggestions.

Anyways, back to the topic. I’ve just recorded an video which teaches how to import wordpress databases. If you’re not really sure how to transfer WP sites, this should be very helpful to you (of course, you’ll have to re-install WP on other server and upload the theme files). It’s pretty simple guide and took me about three minutes and six seconds (of which lot of time went on the uploading part..). Have a look at the video :

Make sure you subscribe to my videos to receive more updates. I am going to produce more videos which will contain tutorials - mostly Photoshop and Blogging related over the period of next few weeks or months. Again, if you’ve got some nice themes which will suit this blog, don’t forget to comment here or contact me via email (use contact us page).