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Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Web services, Google

Hosting companies to offer Google AdSense, site search services

Google has announced that it will work with hosting companies to offer AdSense, site search, AdWords for search and webmaster tools for your hosted websites. This is great news if you love your web host, but you want to simplify the process of monetizing your site and offering search to your users. Hosts can now integrate Google Services for Websites into their own control panels, so you should start seeing them pop up soon.

If you've never used Google's site services before, here's a rundown of what they do. Webmaster tools are useful for figuring out how to optimize your site for Google searches, and understanding what Google's bots see when they crawl your site. AdSense and AdWords let you buy ads in Google search results and sell ads for your site. There's no word from Google on which hosts will be adding these features, but if yours doesn't, you can point them to this page and suggest they sign up.

Filed under: Features, Blogging, Web services, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL

So your web host is retiring: How to back-up and move forward

On Monday, AOL (Weblogs Inc.'s parent company) announced that they are shutting down the AOL Hometown and AOL Journals services. AOL Journals members will be able to migrate to a new service, but AOL Hometown users have been instructed to back-up their files and prepare to go somewhere else.

There have also been reports (but Wikipedia is the source, so keep that in mind) that Yahoo! GeoCties has removed or shut-down some of its UK web servers. With Google killing its Page Creator tool and migrating everyone to Google Sites, the free static web host is a dying breed.

So what can you do if you are an AOL Hometown user (or you use another older service that might be on its last legs)? Read on for tips on backing up your content and publishing options for the future.

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Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Yahoo!

Yahoo! now offering "unlimited" web hosting

Crazy BuffetLoosen those belts and belly up to the bar, because Yahoo! Web Hosting has gone all-you-can-eat. Beginning today, Yahoo! is offering unlimited web hosting for all of its small business customers.

What does unlimited mean? In this case:
  • Unlimited disk space
  • Unlimited data transfer
  • Unlimited email storage
  • 1,000 email accounts
Along with the above, Yahoo! Web Hosting offers a wealth of website design tools, a free domain name, and automatic submission of your site to top search engines.

At $11.95 a month, you've probably spent more at Sizzler's buffet bar. Who can resist popcorn shrimp?

All in all, an interesting development by Yahoo! sure to tighten the web hosting race.

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