Site Domain May Be Expired

Your domain has expired You go to your site and it says that your domain is hosted by GoDaddy, Network Solutions or another register. You don’t know what to do. Your webmaster set it up for you and your domain is under him. There are ways to get it back, but it does require some work…

Marketing Wannabes

Pyramid schemes have entered the website and marketing arena. Also known as  MLM (mid-level marketing) they promise instant conveyance of computer skills, marketing knowledge, amazing but true secrets to website traffic and guaranteed money. Pre-packaged, priced right with training and networking events to get people started quickly. Apparently, you too can make millions on the…

It’s Never Good When Your Site Isn’t Up

My website won’t come up so what do I do? I type in my website and this comes up: 404 Site Error/ Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.14 Server atxxxxxx Huh? What does that mean?  Why is this showing up or worse yet, why is the Apache the configured screen? If you see…

Vetting Your Writer

Before hiring someone to write content for your website, get their credentials: i.e., current and past clients, awards, portfolio, published work, publications that paid for writing services. Facebook, Twitter, Personal Blogs Don’t Count Everyone can write comments on Facebook. That doesn’t count as writing professionally. Posting comments on New York Times articles doesn’t qualify. Tweeting…