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Choosing the Perfect Domain Name for Your Blog or Business Website

April 6, 2013 By Prince Erafe 27 Comments

Choosing a blog name is one thing that any blogger shouldn’t rush into because a blog name is the first foundation for building a successful blog. In this article I will be sharing with you the important steps to follow when choosing a blog name or domain name for your business either online or offline. Step by step guide on how to choose a perfect blog name or domain name When it comes to choosing a domain name for your new blog or offline/online business, most people get confused as what they plan to use is already taken by someone else. It's for this reason people go with wrong domain names but before you choose, you should consider these few points. It should be short A short … [Read more...]

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UnoTelly: Watch Restricted Online TV Stations Outside US & UK

November 17, 2012 By Don Caprio 5 Comments

If you happen to be someone who spends quite a lot of time on your computer, you probably would love to relax once in a while and watch TV stations right there on your computer. For some reasons, most of these TV channels are restricted to the United States residents only and since you're probably in Asia, Australia or Africa, you definitely can't access these services. At the moment, Spotify which can be described as probably the best music streaming application is restricted from certain countries like India and Nigeria. There's no need wondering why; if you're more concerned about how to enjoy this service and more like it that you can't access because of your geographical location, … [Read more...]

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Pointing a Subdomain to your Feedburner Address

June 23, 2012 By Don Caprio 4 Comments

I've been using Feedburner since 2009 but never knew I could use my own custom domain name with my feeds URL till about two months ago. I was just toying around the settings the other day when I came across it. I tried and it worked! Now my Feedburner address is available at feeds.doncaprio.com/doncaprio. Also, instead of going to Feedburner to log in and manage my feeds, launching feeds.doncaprio.com on my browser gets me there. This doesn't have any special advantage so to speak, but it's just ideal for you if you think you need to customize your feeds. How to use custom domain name with your Feedburner address. 1. Log in to Feedburner and at the top right, click on My … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tips Tagged With: custom domain, dns, feedburner

Using Custom Domain with X10hosting Free Web Hosting

April 2, 2012 By Don Caprio 10 Comments

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I don't use free any free hosting service right now but sometimes in 2010, I was using X10hosting for a personal proxy server till they got my account suspended. It was easy to use your own custom domain then as you only need to change it from your dashboard. X10hosting happens to be one of the most reliable free webhosts in terms of stability and features. You are given a free cPanel and you have a wide range of tools at your fingertip including Fantastico and Softaculous one click installers, automated backups, unlimited disk space and bandwidth all for free. It's been a long time I used them but just a few days ago, a friend was having trouble using his custom domain with this free … [Read more...]

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Moving Your Blog From Blogger To WordPress Without Losing Traffic And SEO

December 13, 2011 By Don Caprio 165 Comments

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I haven't writen a blog post recently because I just moved from blogger to wordpress and going back to the post I wrote on choosing the better platform between blogger and wordpress, I made mention of moving over to wordpress someday but I didn't even know back then it would be so soon! Anyway, I did migrate and everything went smoothly, all my blog posts were successfully imported and there was absolutely no broken links. I was rather skeptical about the whole thing at first but I never knew it would be so easy, the only hard part was customizing my new wordpress theme to look similar to the one I used on blogger so it would look like nothing changed at all. Moving from blogger to … [Read more...]

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Using Mobstac With Custom Domain For Blogger Mobile View

November 8, 2011 By Don Caprio 16 Comments

Blogger isn't that tight when it comes to mobile view, we all know that. I've been using blogger default mobile view for quite a couple of months now but I honestly don't like the look that much. I once used mobstac which I wrote about here but ditched it just because I was stuck with an address I didn't like, my blog looked like a mobstac sub-domain on mobile. Anyway, my blog is now mobilized with mobstac and I get to use a sub-domain of doncaprio.com. Cool, huh? Check out http://m.doncaprio.com and see just what I'm talking about.Mobstac is a offers a great services that gives your blog's mobile view some life! Unlike blogger's default mobile template, you can actually edit your … [Read more...]

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List Of Nigerian Web Hosts And Domain Registrars

August 22, 2011 By Don Caprio 27 Comments

Some years back, it wasn't easy hosting a website in Nigeria without a paypal account or a valid credit card. Back in 2008, I remember running countless google searches, looking web hosts that accept liberty reserve for web hosting and domain name registration since I didn't have a paypal account back then and the debit card I had never worked. The last few years has been very good in the Nigerian ICT industry with the emergence of local web hosting companies. It's now easy to host a website and register domain names, paying for the service in Naira without necessarily having a credit card or paypal account. I have to emphasize that the list of Nigerian web hosts in this blog post is … [Read more...]

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Google Pulls Down .co.cc Subdomains

July 26, 2011 By Don Caprio Leave a Comment

About a couple of weeks ago, google decided to remove all .co.cc sub-domains from it's index. The main reason behind this is the excessive use of this free sub-domain by malware sites. It was a big blow to blogs, forums and other sites using this free sub-domain as they will no longer appear in search results.You could run a google search before, bump into a .co.cc site and get your computer infected with malicious programs without your knowledge. It was reported that millions of sites were removed from google's index: the bad eggs and sadly, the good ones as well. This of course has a negative impact on respectable sites using this particular sub-domain, but it's like what had to be done … [Read more...]

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