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Why Using Free Domains and Free Hosting Hurt Your Blog

Lately, services have popped up like dot.tk and co.cc that offer free domain name services. Likewise, services such as 000webhost.com offer free web hosting. Many new bloggers have started using these services together. I personally have registered my domain name “eddieringle.com” through Gandi.net, and also host this blog through Idlesoft’s hosting service.
Let’s start with using [...]

To Follow Or Not Follow: Twitter Following “Strategies”

Note that I put “Strategies” in quotations up in the title, because Twitter was created to let people who are interested know what you are doing. In that case, a word like “style” or “method” would be more appropriate. I recently unfollowed almost everyone I was previously following on Twitter, because I had reevaluated my [...]

A Fair Proposal to Domain Squatters

Before I registered eddieringle.com, I intended on registering ringle.com, for the sake of keeping things short. (I suppose this blog’s URL would be Pirillo-style: eddie.ringle.com.) Unfortunately, like many domain names, ringle.com was bought up by a domain squatter who puts up standard pages filled with sponsored links. I have seen too many good domains be [...]