Domain Hosting
Addon Domain Spamming With WordPress and Any Other CMS
I got this question from Primal in regards to my post on Building Mininets
Eli,
I like the post and your entire site. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. One thing confuses me about this particular tactic. Where are you getting the content from? You mentioned Audioscrobbler and Youtube API but I am not focusing on a music niche. The “widely available car db” sounds more like something I could use. Can you say where you would get something like this from? Also is there any reason why I should use customized pages instead of a CMS like WordPress to generate these kinds of sites?
Upon a glancing read this question seems to focus too much on the exact example used in the post. Yet if you really read the multipart question thoroughly and get to its core it’s a FANTASTIC question that really needs an answer in more depth than what I would put in a comment response. The mininet building post isn’t about how to use APIs and RSS feeds to get content. Nor is it about creating a custom CMS or doing multiple installs of the same site structure (I covered that in depth in my SEO Empire post and called them ANT Scripts). The real down to brass tax gem behind the technique is understanding how to do Addon Domain Spam via environmental variables such as HTTP_HOST to create a lot of sites from a single install of ANYTHING. I’m absolutely a firm believer that addon domain spam is the future of webspam. Subdomains had their day and now its time for figuring out creative ways to create a ton of unique sites from a single platform. This doesn’t always have to be done through addon domains and as mentioned in the comments can be done through other ways such as editing the httpd.config. For now though I wanted to focus on the basics such as using addon domains and if you’d like to go cheap about it subdomains, and let the SEO ingenuity naturally evolve from there.
To answer your question yes you can use databases to help with the content for these sites. Check out my Madlib Sites post for some great ideas on how to accomplish that and use databases. As for the second part YES you can use other CMS’ such as WordPress!
How To Use WordPress To Do Addon Domain Spam
I got several emails from people asking how to create a wordpress plugin to accomplish this technique as well as a comment from the longtime reader PhatJ. I realize at first thought this sounds like a complicated process to be able to convert wordpress over to being able to read multiple addon domains and treat them as multiple installs and probably require some sort of plugin being created, but as with most things the simple solution is often the best.
The easiest and most effective way to convert any CMS to be used for addon domains that I’ve found is to simply edit the config files. No joke, that’s seriously usually all it ever takes. In my wordpress wp-config.php file I grabbed the line that declared the database:
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘database1?);
I replaced it with a simple IF ELSE statement to check for the domain and define the appropriate database:
if ( $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == 'domain1.com' ) {
define('DB_NAME', 'database1');
}
elseif($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == 'domain2.com'){
define('DB_NAME', 'database2');
}else {
define('DB_NAME', 'database1');
}
Then I just pull each database in the browser or mass wordpress installer script and setup each blog as if it was separate.
To show you it in action I put up a single WordPress install on a subdomain on Bluehat. I then added a second database and put that code into the wp-config.php. Looking at each you’d have no idea they were a single wordpress install. See for yourself 
Domain 1: http://addtest1.bluehatseo.com
Domain 2: http://addtest2.bluehatseo.com
Thanks for your question Primal!
5 Simple Google Analytics Tips You Should Be Using
Posted by jennita
Last week, a few of us from SEOmoz attended WebShare’s Seminar for Success for Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer training. All of us who attended have a decent grasp on GA but really wanted to get some advanced information and gain a better understanding of GA’s potential. Plus, actually getting trained on something is always helpful, even if you feel you know it well!
During the first day, which was an introduction to Google Analytics and user training, I quickly realized that there were a number of tips and tactics that I had NO IDEA about previously. I felt a little silly that I didn’t know that some of these things even existed in GA and got to thinking… if I didn’t know you could use these great tactics, maybe others don’t either.
Following are the tips that I’ll be using in Google Analytics from here on out. You may already be using some of these, but hopefully you’ll find a helpful nugget of information in here.
1. Date Range Made Easy
This actually made me the giddiest of all the features. It’s so simple, yet also so subtle that I had never noticed it before! When you use the date range drop down selection, you can select a month or a week easily by simply clicking on the week or month. WHAT?! I know, that’s what I said.
Month Selection
Week Selection
2. Overview Comparison Reports
This is another one, that I feel a bit silly I didn’t know previously! But if you do a comparison with the past month (or whatever date range you choose), it will show you all the data in the overview. My favorite part is that it will calculate the difference for you and give you a quick overview of the comparison. Pretty dang cool! Plus if you take that information and export it to PDF it’s super easy to send it on to anyone or set up a scheduled email (see below).
3. Regular Expressions FTW
Coming from the dev world, I’ve used regular expressions in the past for many things. I was really excited to learn more about using regular expressions when performing searches, setting up filters, and all other things. Here are a list of the regular expressions you can use. Don’t laugh if you’ve been using these for years, some of us are excited over here!
Wildcards
- . = match any single character
- * = match – or more of previous
- + = match 1 or more previous
- ? = match 0 or 1 of previous
- | = logical OR
Anchors
- ^ must occur at the beginning – ^/order\.php = everything that starts with /order.php
- $ must occur at end
Grouping
- () create match on an item – grand(ma|pa) – (.*) = match any chars
- [] create match on one ofe list of items
Escaping
- \ escapes any special character – OK I actually giggled out loud in the training because the trainer, David Booth, said “When in doubt, escape it out” [see! hehehehe]
This regular expression allowed me to search for all guides within the /article section of the site
4. Show More Rows
If you have a large site, I’m sure you’ve come across the issue of trying to export all your data but you can only download 500 rows at a time! That can be super annoying if you’re trying to pull data when you have 10,000+ rows you need to get into one spreadsheet. This little trick can save you hours of time
Just add this to the end of the URL: “&limit=”. Then when you export it to CSV (this is the only option it works with), you’ll get the full number you’ve added in the limit. The view on the page will still only show 500 (or whatever it’s set to) but the actual download will have everything you need. There are limitations with the number of rows you can get in Excel but it’s more of a problem with Excel 2005 and earlier.
- Normally you can only select 500 rows at a time.
- But add “&limit=#” in the URL
- Then Select Export to CSV
- And voila! You have all your data
A few notes about this feature that came from the comments: 1. You have to use the &limit feature before the # in the URL for it to work and 2. The max you can get using this is 50,000 (Tom Critchlow recommends looking at Excellent Analytics, an excel plugin to get more).
5. Schedule a Report to be Emailed
I’ve actually seen this used previously and was on the receiving end of these reports, but honestly hadn’t thought about how we could use them on SEOmoz until now. These are extremely useful for reports you send often (daily/weekly/monthly) and/or reports you send to users who don’t have access to GA. Also use the “add to existing” feature so you can send multiple reports to one person rather than 2 separate emails.
Another nice feature is that the date range you set up is sticky, so if the report was set up to show the last 30 days, the next email sent out automatically will also pull the last 30 days. Mhmmm woot!
I personally plan on testing this out starting in June with YOUmoz posts. So if you get a YOUmoz post published in June, watch for a follow up email from me with your post analytics. 
Bonus Tips!
Here are a couple additional tips I couldn’t leave out. They’re not specific to GA, but work nicely with it!
Search based keyword tool – http://www.google.com/sktool
Rand has talked about this in the past and I’ve used it as well, but I didn’t totally understand the potential! The part I didn’t realize was that if you log in, you’ll get customized suggestions based on your site and your Adwords account. I’ve gone in and used the tool previously but didn’t realize that by being logged in, and having all your accounts hooked together, that you’d actually see data based on your account. This is probably a bit “duh” on my end, but still in case you didn’t know… well now you do.
Google URL builder!
Setting up a campaign is much easier than I realized! There’s actually a simple tool that helps you easily create the campaign URLs. Just fill out this form, and it pops out the URL for you to use in your campaign. Pretty nifty!
There you have it! Some cool tips I learned in the Seminar for Success. We learned quite a bit and Danny is going to have another post probably next week with some more advanced tactics. If you’re interested in taking these classes as well, here’s the upcoming schedule.
| Washington, DC | May 19-21, 2010 |
| Phoenix, AZ | June 9-11, 2010 |
| Chicago, IL | June 23-25, 2010 |
| Berkeley, CA | July 28-30, 2010 |
| Los Angeles, CA | Aug 18-20, 2010 |
| San Diego, CA | Sep 1-3, 2010 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | Sep 15-17, 2010 |
| Vancouver, BC | Oct 6-8, 2010 |
| Atlanta, GA | Oct 27-29, 2010 |
| Orlando, FL | Nov 3-5, 2010 |
| Washington, DC | Dec 8-10, 2010 |
I’d love to hear about any other tips or tricks like these that you use. If you’re looking for more advanced GA tactics, tomorrow Casey Henry will be posting about using Event Tracking to monitor Calls to Action.
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How To Upload Your Website with a Free Domain and Hosting Service
If you have already finished making your website but wanting to know how to get it up online, here’s the tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to upload your website to a free Hosting service and how to get a free domain name for your website, just like my website. Make sure your files of your website are in one folder. The hosting website is called Locker Nerd. It does provide a free hosting service but it is not as excellent as the ones you have to pay for since they provide more storage. But this hosting service is good enough, even if there’s alot of media in it. Here’s the link – lockernerd.co.uk The domain name provider is ‘CO.CC’. This is my favorite because it is, well, almost close to like ‘co.uk’ but with a ‘cc’ instead so it’ nice. Also, you can get certain domain names you want either free, or per year (That’s if your domain is short and easy that is). Here’s the link to it – www.co.cc Then follow the instructions in the video on how to register, upload, and browse your website, publicly! ENJOY!
Add a domain name to your cpanel web hosting
www.wordpress-websitebuilder.com Add a domain name to your cpanel web hosting. If you can upload unlimited domains to your cpanel hosting then this video will show you how to upload and add a new domain name into your hosting.
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Multiple IP Hosting
Multiple IP Hosting – When More is Less
If you are the owner of more than one domain then you’re probably hoping to catch a wide audience online and get a top placement with search engines’ page ranking.
However, achieving what you aim to with your multiple domains isn’t always easy. If you are SEO hosting your sites from a single IP address then the search engines will pick up on this. Why is this bad? Because the engines will view your sites as being part of one family and disallow high ranking for them all. They see it as if one site is scratching the back of the other, in effect. A little bit like family member giving recommendations about other family members in business. We’re all a bit cynical about that. Therefore the value of owning so many domains can be seriously diminished unless you manage them efficiently.
Multiple IP hosting is the answer. That way you still get to have as many sites as you like but each will be resident at its own address. This removes the obvious connection between your sites as far as the search engines are concerned.
With Multiple IP hosting your sites will appear to be entirely separate entities while their function will still be as connected as you choose. This means you can still promote widely online. If you are using multiple IP hosting to host your many domains, remember to keep content for each site original. Don’t opt for the easy out and use duplicate content or you could find you have defeated the object of owning several domains and using Multiple IP hosting.
Running Multiple Domains?
Are You Running More Than One Website?
If you run more than one website you might be doing so with the idea that casting your net far and wide will bring you a higher page rank on Google. Or perhaps you hope doing this will deliver more traffic to your main site via its brothers and sisters. Of course having several sites will give you the potential to enhance your internet presence, in theory.
What can happen without Class C Hosting? In practice, unless your sites are SEO hosted correctly then you might find that having multiple domains really doesn’t help your SEO efforts much at all. How can this be the case?
If you host all your sites from a single IP address this can be viewed as slightly questionable by the search engines, as they will view your domains as a divisive bunch. This is because, in effect, all your websites live at the same address and this shows them as closely related by Google, Yahoo and other search engines.
How can you get the full benefit of owning more than one domain? With Class C Hosting. aka “Multiple Domain Hosting” You can only really be sure that your sites will be judged by the search engines on their individual merits if each site is hosted from a separate IP address. This eliminates the problem of the search engines classifying the sites as having familial links. Therefore each site is judged on its own merits and will rank accordingly.
Class C hosting can solve the problems that multiple domain owners face when it comes to being ranked high with search engines or gaining widespread internet coverage.
How to improve SEO of your website quickly
Following are small quickies you should DIY for cheap and quick SEO of your site.
Choose good keywords
Time spent researching and selecting the best keywords will be time well spent. Get this step right and you will reap the rewards further down the line. However, if you fail at this stage your future efforts could be in vain. To help you achieve the most effective keywords take a look at these keyword research tools.
Always use the title tag
The title tag is one of the most important tags when it comes to search engine optimisation. Write a unique title tag for each page on your web site. The title tag should accurately reflect the page content, should make sense to visitors and should also include your keywords or phrases, ideally at the beginning of the tag.
Write a good Meta Description tag
While the Meta Description tag will not improve your search engine ranking, this text is often displayed in the search engine results. A good description can dramatically improve the chances of a visitor choosing your link rather than your competitors.
Use your keywords in appropriate places
Your keywords should be placed in your title tag, in header tags, in link text, and in your alt tags where appropriate. Ensure that your keywords and related terms also appear within the content of your web page – particularly near the beginning and end of the page.
Address structural issues
Make sure your site is easy to use by providing a consistent navigation scheme. Use text links rather than images and provide a site map where appropriate. Avoid using frames or Flash and take steps to resolve possible problems with dynamically generated pages.
Validate your HTML
By validating your code your site will be compliant with the latest web standards as recommended by the W3C. Standards compliant websites are more accessible to visitors and search engines alike. By adopting web standards and validating your code you will be adopting best practice and laying the foundations for a search engine friendly website. Visit the W3C website for more information about web standards and test your pages using their HTML Validator.
Check your links
Broken links will cause problems for visitors and search engines. If a search engine cannot access a page on your site, it could easily be removed from the index. Make sure your links are working by using a free link checker like this one at dead-links.com.
Submit your sites to the best directories
Make sure you submit your site to the best web directories such as DMOZ, Exact Seek, Buzzle and others. Check the Google Page Rank to ensure that the directory you are submitting to is in good standing with the search engines. Do not use automatic submission software.
Develop a good link building strategy
A good link building strategy takes time to implement and needs to be ongoing. Start by submitting your site to the best directories. Write articles and press releases about your company, products and services and submit these to the relevant directories. Allow other people to publish your articles for free on their websites in return for a one-way link to your site. Request links from authoritative sites in your field or in a related field who already rank highly for your keywords. Use reciprocal linking in moderation and be careful which sites you link to.
Monitor and improve
You will need to monitor the results of your search engine optimization efforts to ensure that you site is doing well. Use a good web stats analysis package and a search engine reporting tool so you can see how you are doing over time. Try to continually improve your results and take action if you notice your rankings are slipping.
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