Advantages
I start from the advantages to searching for and purchasing an existing domain name. There are many reasons why an existing domain is welcomed for webmasters.

Firstly, you may expect a large amount of traffic that has previously flowed to that particular website. You can imagine that there are surely some customers of the older owner may not know that the domain name didn’t get renewed, so that they are of highly likely to visit that domain name after you buy the domain. In other ways, you can enjoy these traffic due to the hard effort of the previously owner. This could be an excellent beginning for your website to against totally no visitor.

Secondly, you may also benefits from the old owner who definitely pay their efforts in targeting keywords to ensure the domain name get listed higher at the search engine results page. In such cases, you domain name is search engine friendly and it will takes you less time and energy for SEO purpose.

Thirdly, the possibility of buying finding a short, catchy domain with the targeted keywords contained will be increased. As we all known, it is not an easy job to find a desired domain that is still available especially if your niche is quite competitive. Also due to the fact there are some domains owners buy these perfect domains simply as an investment, then short domain names are more likely to already be registered. Choosing the right domain name for your internet business enterprise becomes more challenging if you never take the existing domain names into account. Because it is not an easy job to find a good domain name that is still available you may be force to buy an existing domain name from the market.

An Disadvantage
However, if you have settled your mind for buying an existing domain, you should be aware of the potential pitfall. The major disadvantage of buying an existing domain name is that it may have been punished by the search engines for the inappropriate SEO tactics (or black hat techniques). If you are unfortunately enough and purchase domain of this kind, I would empathize. Under such circumstance, it is quite hard for your website to be get indexed again, which means even if you are going to invest a lot of money on promotion and SEO, you will receive no outcome absolutely.

To help you purchase a right existing domain to boost your business, below I have addressed some Dos & Don’ts. Hopefully, they will guide you to the right direction.

Dos:
•Search for the existing rankings of the domain name.
•Look into the existing link of the website. Are there internal page links?
•Think about the domain age and authority before buying.
•Think over carefully whether the content building and link building deserve what you are asked to pay for.
•Check out whether there are any penalties on the domain name.
•Analyze the incoming links to see whether they target your desired keywords.
•Figure out whether the backlinks are come from other sites that are also owned by the particular website owner. If this is the case, then it is very likely that these backlinks will be disappear very soon after you make the purchase.
•Check out the existing traffic of that website and make sure there is no cheat.
•Check out the age of the domains existing links.
•Look for authority news sites linking to the domain.

Don’ts:
•Do not buy an existing domain without taking its Google Page Rank into account.
•Do not buy an existing domain that only has low quality and spammy links.
•Do not simply focused on and pay a high investment on a keyword matching domain, and also remember not to go for hyphenated URL address.
•Do not buy an existing domain that has not been indexed by the major search engines.
•Do not buy an existing domain that is not in your niche, unless you will sell it in the future.
•It is not advised to build organic links with multiple domain purchases.

If you would like to get a brand new domain name, you can either:
1) Get one from web hosting companies(www.hostease.com) since many of them will offer you with free domains when you register their hosting solutions.
2) Get one from a separate domain name registering company.

1.Always take your website speed into account.
After you launch your website, if there are some customers give you a feedback that it is a bit hard to get access to your website, and then you should consider changing your web server. As a website owner, I think the worst experience would be told by your visitors that they need to wait for your page to load. This of course will results in potential customer loss. When talking about server speed, some friends of mine are hosting their website with HostEase, their websites work real fast.

2.Keep your website concise and simple.
Assuming that you write about everything that comes on your mind and put all of them on your website, it will be really hard for the visitors to find the information they are interested. Under such case, they will feel frustrated about your website. Therefore, you should always remember people go for your website with the purpose of finding solutions to their problems rather than what you think. The moment you keep your website simple and well-constructed is the moment they start to read your website.

3.Keep your website professional and creditable
Your website is the online storefront for your business. Therefore, there should be an “About US” page where your business goals, contact information etc should be displayed. If you hope to convert visitors to your customers, or you expect to capture opportunities to work with them, you should give them a deeper appreciation of what your website does. Professional website with great design and more creditable information will increase your business opportunities.

4.Provide excellent value information for your target audience
Another rule that deserve your attention is to offer helpful information (of course, it can accomplish this from your blog). For instance, if you check hostease blog, you will find out that they provide really helpful information to their target audience, webmasters, including SEO tips, web hosting solution, domain name and many experience sharing. It is useless for your readers who are mainly webmasters if provide information that of a totally different niche, such as”Real Estate”. You are strongly recommended to help other people in your network and pay attention to them and what they’re doing. Make them feel noticed and appreciated and in turn they’ll notice and appreciate you.

As for Hostease, this is a very important and a great step forward. We always keep in mind that except for the high quality of a hosting solution, customer support is probably another best reason for customers to buy a brand-name web server. Therefore, we take the quality as the center and take satisfies the customer need as the objective. Hostease build up such a strong Chinese Customer Support Team with the purpose of solving Chinese Customer’s problems in a more efficient way.

With the Chinese Customer Support, customers from China will be able to contact our professional technique team in Chinese. The ways to contact the Hostease’s Chinese Customer support team include a 24/7 ticketing system, complemented by live chat and email support. We hope that the Chinese Website plus Chinese Customer Support Team will help Chinese Customers get over the language barrier and can truly reap the benefits of our products and services.

1.Always take your website speed into account.
After you launch your website, if there are some customers give you a feedback that it is a bit hard to get access to your website, and then you should consider changing your web server. As a website owner, I think the worst experience would be told by your visitors that they need to wait for your page to load. This of course will results in potential customer loss. When talking about server speed, some friends of mine are hosting their website with HostEase, their websites work real fast.

2.Keep your website concise and simple.
Assuming that you write about everything that comes on your mind and put all of them on your website, it will be really hard for the visitors to find the information they are interested. Under such case, they will feel frustrated about your website. Therefore, you should always remember people go for your website with the purpose of finding solutions to their problems rather than what you think. The moment you keep your website simple and well-constructed is the moment they start to read your website.

3.Keep your website professional and creditable
Your website is the online storefront for your business. Therefore, there should be an “About US” page where your business goals, contact information etc should be displayed. If you hope to convert visitors to your customers, or you expect to capture opportunities to work with them, you should give them a deeper appreciation of what your website does. Professional website with great design and more creditable information will increase your business opportunities.

4.Provide excellent value information for your target audience
Another rule that deserve your attention is to offer helpful information (of course, it can accomplish this from your blog). It is useless for your readers who are mainly webmasters if provide information that of a totally different niche, such as”Real Estate”. You are strongly recommended to help other people in your network and pay attention to them and what they’re doing. Make them feel noticed and appreciated and in turn they’ll notice and appreciate you.

And we are going to make a step further; Chinese Customer Support will arrive very soon! We will offer Chinese Customer Support for the sake of better understanding and customer services. By that time, Chinese customers will be able to submit tickets in Chinese and receive replies in Chinese. With the 24/7 Live-chat option, users from China can talk with our technical staff in Chinese, which will be much easier for discussing and problem-solving.

We have good reasons to believe that the launch of Chinese Customer Support will be helpful for you, from the negotiation, purchase, payment to the after sale service. Host your website with HostEase now; it will ease your online journey!

We have to inform you that in order to provide you better payment experience, Alipay will be performing maintenance during July 15th 23:30 to July 16th 05:30 Beijing time. During the maintenance, all Alipay services will shut down. Therefore, you are not able to purchase our products or service via Alipay.

Mainly customers from China will be affected as you will not able to buy our products or service with Alipay. However, you can always sign up with Hostease by other payment methods,Paypal,Moneybookers and 2CO(2CheckOut). We are sorry for the inconvenience. Alipay will be available to you after they complete the maintenance.

Sorry for the inconvenience and we expect for your continuous support!

HostEase Technical Department
July 12th, 2010

The first possible reason that I could reveal to you is you overlook the importance of server reliability:

No1. Blogging on Free or too Cheap Web Host
Web hosting services are paramount to any online business website or blogs. Every blog needs a web host in order to be presented on the internet. All blogger has a budget concern. To most of us, money is tight. Then you may as well go for a free web host or an extremely cheap hosting. I am very sorry to tell you that you will lose the game at the starting line because these free web hosts will simply means poor quality and too much downtime. You will not able to receive support, uptime guarantee, reasonable amount of resource. Choosing this kind of service can only wreck your blog. As a result, to prevent outages and downtime in the future, you should sign up with decent and affordable hosting companies. If you are like the above mentioned bloggers who hosted their blogs with hostease, then you probably have unlimited resources, a variety of other features and most importantly uptime guarantee.

No.2. Extreme Desire of MONEY
I very agree with someone who said: one serious and constant defect in human character is desire. Most of us have the great desire to make money than we need to live comfortably on. Due to this instinct, so many people start blogging with only money on their mind, which prevent them from writing high quality content and become ineffective bloggers. Always remember that keeping your readers happy and building a large group of loyal readers is the best and the only way to make your blogging success in the long run. Believe me in this point, or you will never success.

No.3. Your Blog Traffic is Not Large Enough
If content is the most important thing in blogging, then traffic is the most crucial thing on your way to make money from blogging. Just image if only a few people come and visit your blog every month how could you expect to make money from your blog? As a general rule, it is impossible for a blogger to make money when he only has a very small audience. Therefore, it is extremely important to increase your exposure on the web. You need to promote every one of your great post to the web users, not just your blog’s homepage and maximum your blog exposure. Popular ways are:
a.Keep active in some of the most popular social media websites (Twitter or Facebook).
b.Engage yourself in online communities of the same niche. You are of high likely to receive more traffic when you make friends and build professional relationships in these communities.
c.Likewise, you can post guest post to other popular blogs regularly. Even though it can be somewhat time consuming process, but if you submit really great post to relevant blog, it can bring not only some good back-links to your articles, but often a spike in traffic.

No.4. You Do not Put Your Adsense Ads in the Best Place
The position of Adsense is one of the most important factors when talking about earning money with blogging. Are you often feeling very annoying when you first visit a blog website with Ads all over the blog? The answer is definitely yes. Too many advertisements will push your readers away from your blog. Therefore, if you are able to find the right position to place your ads, what I say is a place where your ads will be seen but where it won’t be a nuisance for people reading your content, then your chance of getting money from your blog will be increased.

No.5. You Do Not Hide Referral links in Your Website
Affiliate program is one of the most popular ways to make money these days. You are paid with commission when you make a sale for your partner. Even though it is not a secret anymore to earn money in this way, visitors will somehow show their unwillingness to click Affiliate links. If you simply copy and paste the affiliate links without removing or hiding your referral number, you will result in great revenue loss. Actually, do some research you will find out there are ways to hide or unmask the links to your affiliate programs, such as URL shorteners or different WordPress plugins.

No.6. You Do not Have the Right Planning and Strategy
If you expect success in blogging, simply writing articles will not possible to bring you money. There is a very crucial step you need to do is good planning. There is an unlimited amount of blogs out there in multiple niches everywhere in the internet. As a result of this, without good planning and strategy, it can be very hard to make your blog stand out from the crowd. In this aspect, I think there is no 100% correct strategy for every blog. You need to create your own strategy according to your blog development, your niche development and many other factors. It is not advised to copy the strategies of famous bloggers rather than making your money making tactics.

No.7. You Do not Listen to the Churchill
You may wonder is there anything to do with the great man, Churchill? Yes, Certainly. Do you know what did the man who led England through World War II said? He said this: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” This is a never give up spirit. However, many of bloggers give up blogging in the first few months of blogging simply because they don’t seem to make any money. To earn money from blog you should also never give up and keep consistent in blogging and promoting.

Final words
As a general rule, whether you are dedicated enough is another very important fact that will decide your ability to earn money from a blog. Besides that, if you hope to take the project forward you should always carry things seriously, such as going with a reliable blogging hosting.

Cross-Browser Compatibility refers to the ability for a website, web application, or client-side script to run perfectly and with the same visual and functional effects among multiple web browsers the currently available. If your website is cross-browser compatibility it means that visitors from all around the world would have a consistent using experience regardless of whatever browser they are using.

Cross browser compatibility becomes a very important issue for every webmaster due to the fact that many different browsers (both the popular options such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera etc and some other not so popular options, like Konqueror etc.). Visitors who are viewing your website have a multitude of browser choices. As long as you expect to convert them to your regular readers or even customers, you need to consider every visitor as “god” and make your website to get a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly perfect. In brief, cross-browser compatibility is essential and crucial. In this article, I will show you some guidelines to achieve this goal.

Where to test Cross-Browser Compatibility
You may not like to install so many different browsers on your device. Generally speaking, you may design a website or a blog for one specific browser that is installed on your personal computer. When you use your browser to view your website, you will find out that your website function quite well on your browser; however, it is possible that some unpleasant surprise may occur on some other browser. You can’t expect all people to be using the same web browser as yours. Therefore, you may wonder how your website performs on the rest of browsers currently available. Fortunately, here I have found some online resources to help you out. Following are some online tools you can use to test your website cross-browser compatibility for free.

1.Browsershots.org
This website is a free and most popular cross-platform multiple browsers compatibility test utility for web designers. Simply enter your website address in the required field and choose the browser that you need to check, you will be provided with different screenshots of your websites on these different browsers (including all the versions of IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera). If it is necessary, you can also select different screen resolutions to view the results.

2.browserlab.adobe.com
This is another website where you are provided with a service to take of your site in different browsers and report them back to you. It offers an awesome solution for viewing on demand screenshots of your site.

3.IE Tester
Internet Explorer especially the older versions (IE6, IE7) are notorious for “annoying bugs”. One of the most curial things to do for your web development project is to test the website layout in those browsers and fix any problems as soon as possible. IE tester allows you to check how your website looks and feels on all the IE versions on different Operating Systems (Windows7, Vista and XP).

By the way, it may be a bit time consuming to check all of the browsers if you are really a busy person. However, following key browsers you should never missed while checking your website compatibility.
•Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
•Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
•Mozilla Firefox
•Opera Software’s Opera Web Browser
•Apple Safari — Used on most Mac operating systems

Tips to Make Your Website Cross-Browser Compatible

Tip1. Validate your website
Many of unpleasant bugs are caused by invalid HTML or CSS. Getting your website validated, it will be much easier for you to expect cross-browser compatibility. The W3C Validation Service validates multiple versions of (X) HTML and it also output many useful errors and warnings which are really helpful for you to build a perfectly consistent website. Therefore, my first tip for you is to validate your HTML code with the W3C validator and your CSS file with the W3C CSS validator.

Tip2. Define valid doctype
It is necessary to define your valid dectype so that the browser will able to know what rules will be used in your code. If you have not address the specific rules, then you are asking the browser to guess then different browser will of high likely come up with different results.
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
With the help of the above code, you are able to design “strict mode,” where IE versions will display the closest effect to that of Firefox, Safari and other modern browsers. Or else, Internet Explorer will operate in a “quirks mode” where it tries to emulate the behavior of the outdated browsers.

Tip3. Apply CSS reset
If you have ever used a CSS reset for any project, you will definitely find out that your ability to create a cross-browser experience has dramatically increased. As a general rule, different browsers behave according to their default css rules; however, this can be changed with a CSS reset, where you are able to define CSS so as to make the same behaviors for different browser. Eric’s CSS reset is very popular and often used among website developer.

Tip4. Use conditional comments:
You are advised to use conditional comments rather than CSS hacks. With conditional comments, you are allowed to link to separate style sheets for different browsers. You can find more information on quirksmode.

Final tip: Start your development with Internet Explorer (if possible)
Although you might annoyed by IE6 and IE7 and refuse to use them in your everyday online activities. However, I would like to tell you that it is much easier to get a layout working first in these IE browsers then fix for other browsers, than to do it the other way around. If you do not want to waste your valuable time, start your website development from there will ease the development process.

Conclusion
When talking about cross-browser compatibility, there are many things should be included. What mentioned in this article are simple some basic practices and guidelines for webmasters who is eager to achieve consistent users experience cross different browsers. We would like to hear your thought about cross browser compatibility, please leave a comment at our blog.

They will perform maintenance on circuits which provide connectivity from BBR01.SR01.DAL01 to BBR01.EQ01.DAL01 on the public network and BBR01.SR01.DAL01 to MBR01.DAL01 on the private network.

Therefore, the following services will be modified during the maintenance:
Dallas, TX (DAL01) to Seattle, WA (SEA01) private and public network connectivity
Dallas, TX (DAL01) to Washington, DC (WDC01) private and public network connectivity
BBR01.SR01.DAL01 to BBR01.EQ01.DAL01 global backbone network connectivity (public / private)
DAR01.DAL01 and DAR02.DAL01 to BBR01.SR01.DAL01 global backbone network connectivity (public / private)

It will require 4 hours to complete the maintenance process. You are likely to see routing anomalies, packet-loss, and increased latency on both the public and private networks.

Your patience and understanding are appreciated during this time. Of course, if you have any connectivity problems after that time frame, please feel free to submit a ticket to us. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and expect for your continued patronage.

We would like to place our sincere thanks for your interest in our HostEase. In order to provide better services to our customers, we will be upgrading our server on Thursday, 24 June 2010, from 2:00a.m. until 5:00a.m. CDT.

It will take 3 hours to upgrade both the support and manage system. We start the upgrade from the support system which will need 1 hour. Then it is the upgrade for manage system which requires 2 hours.
The live-chat and ticket support will be unavailable while the upgrade for support system are taking place，however, you still could expect phone support.

When we are upgrading the manage system, you will not able to access the Manage Page for any management and your requirements for purchasing products will be not meet. Customers are allowed to login into your hosting control panel and manage your hosting account via the address “yourdomain.com/cpanel”.

During these upgrades process, your websites will not be affected. We do these upgrades with the purpose of adding more processing power to our support and manage systems. Thus they will help increase their speeds and efficiencies.

HostEase Technical Department
June.21, 2010