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Get Free Google AdWords Credit!

Posted February 9th, 2010 | Share Your Thoughts!

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Did you know that Lunarpages is giving to its customers upwards of $50 to $100 in free Google AdWords credit?  If you have never tried advertising your business or web site on Google, and you are Lunarpages client – you just lost your last excuse not to at least try it out.  You can now reach a global internet audience using Google AdWords and your Lunarpages web hosting account.

Are you ready to promote yourself? Here is how you get started.

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How to Subscribe to Lunartics

Posted February 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment

rss Often we overlook the obvious questions posted to a blog.  One of the most obvious questions would be how do you subscribe an stay updated when new blog articles are posted to the Lunartics blog?  Today I’ll let you know what all your options are, so that you can use the one that suits your needs the best.

We are all about posting web hosting and web development related tips, tutorials and more here on blog.lunarpages.com, so if you want to make sure you don’t miss any of them, stay tuned.

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Free Facebook Ads Offer from Lunarpages

Posted February 5th, 2010 | Share Your Thoughts!

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There are over 200 million people out there on Facebook, have you tried to reach them?  Advertising through Facebook can be a great way to get your business or web site off the ground – and Lunarpages is here to help you get started with a $25 – $50 discount on Facebook Ads. 

By partnering with Lunarpages for your web hosting, you can utilize Facebook Ads to reach your target markets from the largest social networking site in the world.

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Add Fixed Social Buttons to WordPress

Posted February 4th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Fixed Social Buttons

When it comes to marketing yourself online, making sure everybody knows of your standing among the social networking sites out there is always a positive.  if you are using WordPress to publish your web site, then this plugin will be perfect to quickly add fixed social buttons to your domain.

The Fixed Social Buttons plugin for WordPress, does exactly the job you would think it would do.  It allows you to display a fixed (meaning they scroll along with you on the web page) series of buttons to help you promote your site on other social network web sites out there. 

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Best Alternative Comment Systems

Posted February 3rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

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Two online services out there are really battling it out for your attention and use.  Disqus Comments and Intense Debate are both top notch commenting systems.  Which one though will really help you make your web site’s comment section look more appealing to new web site visitors?

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How to Setup a Twitter Widget

Posted February 2nd, 2010 | Share Your Thoughts!

Twitter Help and Advice

If you have a Twitter account, and use it regularly, then there is no reason not to share your most recent tweets with the rest of the world on your own web site.  Thankfully, Twitter makes this a relatively easy thing to do, with the various widgets they provide to all Twitter users. 

On Twitter’s web site, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the, “Goodies” link.  On the next screen, click the “Widgets” link in the middle, and that should take you to the “Select a Widget” web page on Twitter.com.  You can now choose to put a widget on your web site, Facebook or MySpace.  Click on, “My Website” to continue.

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Easier Watermarking for Images

Posted February 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments

Free Watermark Image Tool

Need an easy way to watermark your image collection before you upload them to your web site?  If you don’t have an expensive photo editor to get the job done, check out Watermark Image.  This free program, available on multiple version of Windows, will get the job done.

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10 Most Popular Joomla Security Extensions

Posted January 27th, 2010 | Share Your Thoughts!

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Joomla is one of the most popular content management systems out there.  Being the most popular does have it’s price though, you have to pay more attention to security related issues.  To help you out, I thought I would find then of the most popular security related extensions for the Joomla CMS script.

JoomlaCloner

JoomlaCloner is a backup and restore component designed for Joomla! By it’s name, the purpose is to give users possibility to clone their Joomla installation and move it over the internet on any location!

Security Images

Ever been to a site where you had to register and the registration form required that you type in the same phrase that is found in a hard-to-read image? Joomla! has now this possibility thanks to my component com_securityimages. It will protect You against most spammers attempt… It is providing 5 famillies of highly configurable captchas.

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Pay for Web Hosting and Make a Profit!

Posted January 26th, 2010 | Share Your Thoughts!

Make Money with Lunarpages These are rough economic times, so with that said – how would you like a fool proof way to not only pay for your own hosting account, but make $87 in profits just by giving your opinion on who your friends or web site visitors should host with?  I’ll let you in on this industry secret today.

So how do you make your web hosting account pay for itself? 

All you need are 3 friends and a Lunarpages affiliate program account.

The Basic hosting plan, for one year is $107.40.  That is with no extra features or domain name registration.  Now, within a year’s time – if you are anything like myself, you tend to get people asking you where they too can get a web hosting account.

Well, that is where the magic happens. 

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Quick and Easy Site Generation

Posted January 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Free Web Site Generator

Need to get a web site up in a hurry?  Just want to plug and post?  You might want to check out SiteGenWiz, a web site creator for HTML novices and people who don’t want to hassle with learning how to code a web page.  All you have to do is type out your site content, and then format it the wy you want it to look.

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