Archive for 'Issue 13 - August 2008'

August 2008

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

By Amy Armitage
In this month’s issue we cover:
LunarNews August 2008
An Interview with Marc Sylvester
SEO Tips: Step Five of Ten - Link Building with Debra Mastaler
Lunarpages Launches 3 New Plans
Old School Affiliate Marketing
Creating Email Accounts with LPQuickSite
Joomla (the Manual Install) - Wiki Preview
Create a FTP Account using cPanel - Wiki Preview
Must Have WordPress Plugins
Enjoy!

LunarNews August 2008

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

August 2008 marks the 1 Year Anniversary of the first edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter!! Can you guys believe it? It’s already been one whole year of amazing web hosting news, Lunarpages goodies, webmaster tips and tricks, interviews, and a mess of other awesome stuff as well. And trust us, this newsletter will be around [...]

Lunarpages Interviews Marc Sylvester of The Logo Creator

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
About two years ago, as I was searching online for graphic and logo design companies, I stumbled across a nice ‘little’ site called TheLogoCreator.com. I had been looking at logo design companies, individual designer sites, and template generators all day, but this site was different. A refreshing change from the normal (and somewhat [...]

SEO Tips: Step Five of Ten - Link Building

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Author: Debra Mastaler
Welcome to part five in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are:
1. Keyword Research & Selection
2. Competitor Analysis
3. Site Structure
4. Content Optimization
5. Link Building
6. Social Media
7. PPC
8. Statistics Analysis
9. Conversion Optimization
10. Keeping It Up
Note: Part five is a reprint of a Semmy winning [...]

Lunarpages Three New Plans

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
So the big excitement here at Lunarpages this month was the introduction of three new web hosting plans for our customers! But the interesting news about these plans is…they’re not exactly web hosting.
Let me explain – we now simply offer a Domain Registration plan and two Email Hosting plans! The domain plan is [...]

Old School Affiliate Marketing

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
Affiliate marketing is either the best or worst thing, depending on who you talk to. Personally, I love it, and that’s not just because I manage the Affiliate Program here at Lunarpages, although that’s as good a reason as any! I like affiliate marketing because it allows for faithful word-of-mouth, old-school type referrals. [...]

Adding Advanced Features to LPQuicksite - Creating Email Accounts

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
If you are following along in this LPQuicksite Tutorial Series on Adding Advanced Website Features to your LPQuicksite, you have probably already added a website counter and are watching your visitors roll through. Now let’s get into something which many new webmasters will be thrilled about – creating email accounts!
Remember, this is Part [...]

Joomla (the Manual Install) - Wiki Preview

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

By Mitch Keeler
Now I can install WordPress with my eyes closed, but I might be a little rusty with some of the other content managers out there. So with that said, I thought I would try my hands at installing another content management system. Joomla is a popular choice to install among our users. I’ve [...]

Create a FTP Account using cPanel - Wiki Preview

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

FTP accounts are one easy way to get files to and from your Lunarpages web hosting account. In cPanel, you can create a number of FTP accounts for a number of different folders for an number of different reasons. You may need to give a designer only access to once section of your web site. [...]

Mitch’s Must Have WordPress Plugins

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

By Mitch Keeler
I have installed and managed many WordPress installations in my day. Over the years, I have developed a list of some of my favorite WordPress plugins that I seem to use time and time again. Here is my “best of” list, as far as WordPress plugins go.

Akismet - Kills spam comments, [...]