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Mitch’s Marketing Book Project
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Since I now have 200 podcasts under my belt, and with a new year coming up quick, I thought now would be the perfect time to introduce to you my new project. I want to help you with marketing.
Mitch Does Marketing!
Now, I will not create a new podcast or a blog. Instead I am going back to my roots, and diving back into producing another book – shades of the long forgotten Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting, which was the inspiration for this podcast four years ago.
So what can you expect? I’m not really sure just yet, other than I am looking to offer to the public at large tutorials, tips and advice on how to market your web site or online business, with as little cost to you as possible. Think of it as a good ol’ southern boy’s guide to marketing.
As soon as I have more information on the project, I’ll be sure to share it with you here. I hope it is as successful as my other projects are, and that most of all, you will get plenty of use out of it.
Like This Article? Listen to it and more like it on podcast #200 of the Web Hosting Show!
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Web Hosting Milestone – Podcast 200
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This is it, the web hosting milestone you have all been looking forward to. As the Web Hosting Show crosses into it’s 200th episode, I want to take a minute, not to come up with a semi-pointless introduction to today’s show. I want to thank you for sticking with me through 199 episodes so far, and many more to come in the future. The Web Hosting Show is now on the air!
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 200!
Running Time: 15 minutes | File Size: 6.53 MB
Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:
- Maximize Work Space with More Browsers – Learn how to simply reorganize your customer support responsibilities, to get more work done in less time.
- How Anybody Can Install WordPress – I am here to help you get WordPress installed for the very first time. With WordPress 2.9 out this week, figured it would be a good time to reintroduce you to this great content management system.
- Mitch Launches a New Top Secret Project – In celebration of podcast number 200, I wanted you to be the first ones to learn about my new top secret project I have started production on. Hear it here first!
- How to Turn a Complaint into a Feature - We help Matt take complaints about his free hosting business, and turn those complaints into a brand new feature to his online business.
Starting this episode, I am going to also give you one quick tip on each podcast to help you out with your web hosting ways. Keep an ear out for them on each podcast from here on out.
Quick Tip #1 – Keep your domain name registrations and web hosting accounts separate. This way if your business relationship fall through with one, it won’t effect the other.
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Hope you enjoy the podcast. If you do, drop in a comment and let me know or drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com. If you want to ask your own question on the podcast, it’s an easy thing to do – just go to the submit a question page, send me your inquest and I will be happy to help on next week’s podcast (plus give your web site a free plug!).
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FTP FAQ for Beginners
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As a standard network protocol we all use to upload, download and change files over the Internet, FTP is something we all use, but many people still have questions about. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and usually works in a type of client-server relationship to allow you to easily upload documents to a server or download them.
The way we have interacted with FTP has changed over the years. FTP clients, the programs you use to interact with the server via FTP, were originally interactive command-line tools with a standardized command syntax, but graphical user interfaces have been developed for all modern desktop operating systems in use today.
Setting up a desktop FTP client might vary between programs, however most can be configured by giving the following information.
- Hostname: yourdomain.com or ftp.yourdomain.com
- Username: your account username
- Password: your account password
If you are logging in via a secondary FTP account you have created, be sure to use the full user name format user@yourdomain.com as the user name when you input your login information into the FTP client. Some of my favorite FTP clients out there are:
Now, you can use your Internet browser to access your hosting space via FTP, however I would advise against it. The clients mentioned before and the number of other alternatives out there handle FTP in a much better way than any Internet browser out there.
So to make things as simple as possible, FTP is what allows you to easily transfer files to and from your hosting account very easily via a special program.
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How to Install a WordPress Plugin
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WordPress is probably one of, if not “the” most popular blogging script out there. One of the things that makes it so great is the wide variety of plugins you can install to extend it’s usability. So how do you install a WordPress plugin? Why, I am happy you asked.
First thing you need to do is to download the plugin, from the plugin’s official site, or from a directory like WordPress’s Plugin Directory site. Once that has been done, you see it often comes in a .zip compressed folder. You need to un-compress it using your favorite file unzipper – to it’s own folder. Now you have the folder for the plugin setting on your desktop. What is next?
Next, you will want to start up your favorite FTP program and upload the folder to this directory:
/wp-content/plugins/
Each plugin should have it’s own folder, so since your plugin you want to install is already in a folder just upload the entire folder to the folder named “plugins” within your wp-content folder.
Now, login to your WordPress administrator interface and click on the Plugins link in the left-side menu. Scroll down the list till you see the plugin you just installed, and click the the link labeled “Activate” in the box for the plugin.
Simply follow the on screen instructions after that, and your new plugin should be up and running. Often plugins have additional features you need or can setup and customize, so check the plugin’s documentation for that information.
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How to Create a .htaccess File
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I like to tell you about the basics here on this show, as well as the advanced things. Creating a .htaccess file is some where in between.
The .htaccess file is a way to make a change to the configurations of your hosting account for each directory. For example, once you put a .htacess file in your public_html folder, on a Linux based hosting account, it will set the rules for that folder and all the folders created in it.
Here is everything you need to know…
Step 1 – Open up a text editor (such as Notepad or cPanel’s File Manager) and add in the lines you need and save the file.
Step 2 – Using the cPanel’s File Manager or your FTP client you will need to upload the file to the location you need it. This is usually inside of your public_html folder.
Step 3 – Rename the file to .htaccess, and save. It should be noted that .htaccess is the file extension. It is not filename.htaccess or yourpage.htaccess, it is just named .htaccess.
Truth be told, you really don’t need to know what the .haccess file is, as long as you can find the right snipits of code or “recipes” in it to get the job done. At least now you know how to create it… and knowing is half the battle.
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Having My Own HostingCon – Episode 192
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I’m not here to save the day. I’m not here to change the face of web hosting. So what am I here for? I am here to help. Help you learn more about the web hosting world in a podcast. All that I ask is for around 10 to 15 minutes of your time and I promise you will walk away at least knowing something you didn’t know before. Let’s have our own hosting conference, me, you and hundreds of our closest friends.
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 192!
Running Time: 12 minutes | File Size: 5.29 MB
Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:
- Was I Snubbed by HostingCon?
- How Should Web Hosts Adapt to the Social Web?
- How to Create a .htaccess File
- How to Install a WordPress Plugin
- Dead Body Pose Bring Stress Relief to Web Hosting Workers
- Why I Don’t Do Web Hosting Reviews!
Here is this week’s web hosting news headline:
HostingCon Kicks Off – Media company iNET Interactive will host HostingCon 2009, the premier conference and trade show, at Washington, D.C.’s Gaylord National Resort on August 10 to 12.
Trivia Question – True or false, Tucows started in 1993? (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)
Hope you enjoy this week’s podcast, and check out the archives where you are sure to find many more. Also, if you have any feedback, comments or complaints – you can contact me at here. Enjoy the show, and share it with your friends!
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