The key feature is that instead of hosting all of your domains on one IP address, as is the norm for web hosting, your hosting account offers numerous different IP addresses.

What this allows you to do is have website X on one IP address and to link it to website Y on another IP address. The idea is that by appearing to be owned by different people there will be a boost in the value of that link.

If, on the other hand, Google were to view the link from X to Y as being from the same person because the websites are located at the same address, the thought is that Google would devalue the link.

That argument is not important here. Rather, for those looking for SEO hosting to find a good service to use. Many SEO hosting companies have very similar names and urls, so you need to pay close attention to who you are dealing with:

Recommended:

seohosting.com – This is a HostGator service I have used for many years. The only problem is that the cost per each IP address in your account is expensive. Starting at about $7 per address. It is the most expensive service I have seen. But it is dependable and HostGator is highly recommended.

skynethosting.net – Another service we are trying. SkyNetHosting has received good reviews elsewhere, offers comprehensive hosting packages, and it is only $2 per IP address. However, you need the $99 per month plan to get whm features that let you quickly add websites to each IP address. Otherwise, you need to submit a ticked to get this done. I’m not sure why this is not standard for all of their hosting plans.

seohost.com – I have not tried this but it has had good reviews and is only $2 per IP. The reason I chose SkyNetHosting over SeoHost is because SeoHost does not list its hosting features on its website. Very odd. Reading their website carefully it looks like the hosting may not be full featured, such as having a cpanel, to save money.

Not Recommended:

These sites are about universally condemned on the web as places to avoid:

seo-host.com – Terrible record keeping websites online.

cclassiphosting.com – Absolutely hilarious postings of sales and support refusing to provide any information about the company, where it is hosted, what is offered, etc.

After testing this feature on different web hosting accounts let me suggest you do not waste you time.

Half the time the autoresponder message is not sent. When it is sent it may very likely be missing chunks of text.

This is completely unacceptable, and I suggest learning from my wasting my time and to avoid using the cpanel autoresponder.

Instead, I recommend using the vacation response autoresponder in Yahoo mail. It is much more dependable. Instructions for setting this up are here.

You can change the page, such as sending them to an offer page, by changing the redirect url at:

amember | plugins | protect | php_include | logout.php

Here is how you can use aMember with just 1 install, on multiple domains, and staying within the terms of the product license.

Presumably, you already have aMember installed on a domain if you are reading this.

For your second website, in your cpanel create your second website as an add-on domain for the same web hosting account as your first domain. (If you only have one web hosting account this is your default situation). This tip only works within the same web hosting account.

Within aMember create a new product. For the new product the script asks for a url. Give it the full url of your second website and subdirectory you want to protect.

Example: domain2.com/membership/

Now, within aMember you need to protect the folder.

Typically, the option used will be new_rewrite, which presents users with a nice login form to login to your membership area. That will not work.

Instead, choose the htpasswd protection option. This will give users a popup box to enter their username and password. Not nearly as nice looking as the new_rewrite created screen. But you’re also saving $180 and only needing to update and use one script install, instead of juggling multiple script installs.

The protected url to enter on the Protect Folder screen will be

/home/YOURWEBHOSTINGACCOUNTNAME/public_html/YOUR2NDADDONDOMAIN.COM/MEMBERSHIPFOLDER/

Example: /home/bob/public_html/domain2.com/membership/

That’s it. Very easy.

Since the aMember script stays installed on only 1 domain you are not violating the software license agreement:

“aMember license grants you the right to run one instance (a single installation) of the Software on one web server and one web site for each license purchased. Each license may power one instance of the Software on one domain. For each installed instance of the Software, a separate license is required.”

Depending on your setup, you may want to modify some of the default emails sent by the script so they are generic and do not refer to a specific site. This can be done in the admin area under Global then Email.

There may also be some membership related files you will want to put in a frame so it is not apparent the user is on a different domain.

Since the login page has a link to the main domain registration page, which may be odd for the second domain, you can delete the link under templates for the login page.

Note: due to the multiple domains there may be issues with staying logged in or accessing membership admin pages if the user’s web browser does not accept third party cookies

It’s old, small and still works for me.

But problems arise when all my friends are communicating by text, and it takes me an hour to peck out a text message. And my allowed message is very limited.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could send text messages from your computer?

I found it is possible by knowing the person’s phone number and carrier, and sending them an email. But it wasn’t very convenient or nice looking.

Fortunately, I just found a web service that makes this real convenient and easy to do. Here is a video showing how it works:

Texting.ly.

I can see where this would be real convenient, especially for some businesses. Manage your texts to customers and others from your office without needing to use someone’s personal phone – which can raise privacy and legal issues.

Here is the link to Texting.ly.

Fortunately, that all changed when I shifted to using the php api tracker.

Here is what I did:

- Deleted the JavaScript tracking code from the tracking text on each page.

- Added the default php tracking code and made the following changes:

1. Added the url to my Piwik tracking script and reference to where the piwiktracker file is.  See the note below for more about this.

2. Added php code to capture the file name of the page being tracked.

3. Changed the image being echoed to refer to the captured file name instead of the default – This title will appear in the report Actions > Page titles – which was showing that exact text in my report instead of the actual page title. My ‘fix’ does not show the page title, but the file name, which is perfect for my use.

The change for #2 and #3 results in this php code below the initialization code:

function curPageName() {
 return substr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],strrpos($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"/")+1);
}

$title = curPageName();

echo '<img src="'. Piwik_getUrlTrackPageView( $idSite = 5, $customTitle = $title) . '" alt="" />';

Remember the idsite has to be different for each site with a number matching the website in the control panel.

Note: Since I have multiple domains to track on one host I installed the piwiktracker file in the root domain of the host (after adding the link to my piwik install in the file) so that this only has to be installed once.

Bottom line: for each domain to be tracked add the new tracking code, remembering to change the idsite number.  That’s it.  Now it’s as simple as adding the default JavaScript and piwik is working so much better for me.

Update:

The above is using the api advanced image tracker.

The problem with the advanced image tracker is that it leaves a reference in the source code of each page referring back to the main piwik install. Not so great for security, it lets anyone find all your sites – and that includes Google.

But this tracking is solved using the api http request.

The http request has the same problem with the page name, so here is my new code (below the beginning lines telling the script where the piwiktracker file is and where the script is installed:

$piwikTracker = new PiwikTracker( $idSite = 1 );
function curPageName() {
 return substr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],strrpos($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"/")+1);
}
$title = curPageName();
$piwikTracker->doTrackPageView($title);

Initially, it was not clear that it was getting these results itself. It appeared that it was instead using another service.

Then after a couple weeks it completely went down. Perhaps the service it was relying upon did not like the fact giftedseo.com was trying to piggyback upon its efforts.

Anyway, that and mysql errors have doomed this service.

From the outset it was questionable why this was a free service (i.e., whether it might be harvesting your keywords).

If you see it again just avoid it.

Extreme Word Spinner

Other online word spinners only do a spin after you have submitted spin-ready text.

Extreme Word Spinner is a big step above because it lets you submit and article and then it automatically creates spin ready text from it.

While you do need to review and edit the spin read text to make sure each option still reads right, this can be a fast way to do this editing.

The other option is to go word by word and select synonyms.

Each method can be better depending on the article and your speed. But Extreme Word Spinner should at least be in your arsenal.

It is currently in beta and free. Hopefully it will stay free. There is no indication yet of what it will cost when it comes with a price.

The good:

- One admin install for all websites.

- Easy to use interface for the admin and where comments are placed on websites.

- Looks very nice on the website.

The bad:

- Encrypted script limits potential user customizations (or fixing script issues – see below).

- Forced advertising of the product in emails sent to commenters.

- Other than manually moderating each comment, no filters or spam controls are available in the admin area (such as bad words ban, IP ban, moderate depending on number of links in comment, etc.)

- Captcha uses O and 0 and it is hard to tell them apart.

The undocumented:

- The captcha must be entered in all CAPS or it will fail.

- Adding any html link in a comment causes the comment to be completely ignored. It cannot even be moderated for acceptance.

- Adding any line spaces in a comment, such as for paragraphs, is ignored. The script apparently strips them out. Adding < br > within a comment is also stripped out. Looking at the source code of the web page after a comment is added, the blank lines are there – but without a < br > they of course run together.

But what is odd is that in the admin interface an html link url can be manually added and the link will then appear. Also, blank lines created in the admin interface by pressing the [enter] key are ignored. But they can be created by manually inserting html such as < br >

- For some reason the script adds a blank nofollow link after a comment. This is only apparent when looking at the source code. There will be the comment, followed by a blank line, then an html link that is nofollow and opens a new page. But there is no link where a link should be, and no description.

Update: April 7, 2011: We received a comment, ostensibly from Koen Berkenbosch at Link Aloha, requesting that this post be removed because “it is not true.”  The comment received was:

“Its not true and I have to explain alot of my new customers why, because alot of them read it.

Please remove the comment from your blog.”

It was unclear just what exactly is now claimed to not be true, so we revisited Link Aloha to see if any of these items need updating due to changes in the service or perhaps overlooked an issue.

After this further review of Link Aloha, the post remains, in our opinion, true.  For Koen Berkenbosch’s benefit we have also saved for our records documentary evidence from campaigns proving each statement listed here is true.

For our testing we accessed various campaigns of a current Link Aloha user, selected “Campaigns Info”, and then clicked on “Full Campaign Statistics” to obtain a downloaded spreadsheet of all link information submitted by the Link Aloha service.

Although the full statistics were requested on April 7th, only data for April 4-7 was provided by Link Aloha.  The service does not explain why data was missing for April 1-3.  Presumably, the service did not submit any links for those days.  There also does not appear to be any way to recover submission data for prior months.  However, based on the data available there was more than sufficient data for our re-review.

1. Pause a campaign by setting the number of links to be created each day to zero.

Update April 7, 2011:  A review of campaigns where the links set to be created each day was set to zero shows that no profile links for that campaign were actually submitted.  In effect, this allows a user to pause a campaign without needing to kill it.  “Kill Campaign” or “Delete” are the only options currently in the Link Aloha user interface.  Our preference is to simply set the links to be created to zero.

2. When you create a list of link text to be used, using the “|” command, this does NOT spin the text used for each link. Instead, the link text options are only used if you have that number of links to be created each day.

For example: if you use the link text LinkAloha|LinkAloha Review|LinkAloha Tips

and have the number of links to be created each day set to one: then every day one link is created using the keyword text LinkAloha. You will never get any backlinks with the text LinkAloha Review or LinkAloha Tips.

To trigger backlinks with LinkAloha Tips as the text you need to have three backlinks created each day.

Update April 7, 2011:  We reviewed a campaign with two keywords with a pipe between them as recommended by Link Aloha.  The format is:  keywordone|keywordtwo

The campaign is set to add one link per day.

The Link Aloha spreadsheet shows one link being submitted on April 4, 5, 6 and 7.  All four of those links used keywordone.  There were no postings of keywordtwo.

In other words, the anchor text does not spin or rotate.

We then reviewed a second campaign, also with two keywords separated by the pipe: keywordone|keywordtwo, that was set to post two links per day.

The Link Aloha spreadsheet showed two links being submitted on April 4, 5, 6 and 7.  On each day both keywordone and keywordtwo were submitted.

This verifies that to have multiple keywords submitted in a campaign you need to set your campaign to post multiple posts.  Note that on each day it was exactly keywordone and keywordtwo that were posted.  There was no situation where keywordone or keywordtwo was posted twice in one day even though two links were set to post.  Again, indicating the pipe does not result in spinning or a random keyword being selected.

3. Adding multiple URLs for a campaign acts the same as the multiple text links discussed above.

They do NOT rotate. So if a campaign has 5 urls but only 1 backlink is set each day, instead of 1 of the 5 urls being rotated for a backlink each day, only the first url is set each day. You will never get backlinks to the other 4 urls.

To get a backlink to each url in a campaign you have to set the number of backlinks each day to the number of urls.

Update April 7, 2011:  We reviewed a single campaign that included over a dozen urls, with the number of links to be submitted each day equal to the number of urls.

The Link Aloha data spreadsheet showed each url being submitted once on April 4, 5, 6 and 7th.  Despite over 50 link submissions over those days there was no repeat on any day, again evidencing no rotation.

However, at this point the review is not yet complete.  We have asked that the campaign be adjusted to increase the number of urls but the number of links to be submitted reduced so that there is a complete re-review of the initial testing.  This will be updated when that further testing has been completed.

But so far, the re-review is resulting in exactly the same results as before and a new result is not anticipated.

4. Link Aloha has been known to reorder your keywords for a url using the “|” command. They may be reordered alphabetically. So you need to be careful if you have more keywords than backlinks being set, because the first keyword you put in the list may not be the keyword Link Aloha is using in each daily run because Link Aloha has reordered your list.

Update April 7, 2011: We created a new url to be submitted with and in the “Add Keywords” box placed the following information: keywordone|keywordtwo|keywordthree

We then saved.  Then we immediately went back to edit and review the keyword list.  What we found was this:  keywordtwo|keywordthree|keywordone.

Again, as previously stated, Link Aloha may reorder your keywords without telling you.

This is especially important because as previously noted Link Aloha does not rotate or spin your keywords.  If there was rotation or spinning it would not matter what order they were placed in.  But because they do not, if you are only posting one link per day you will only get the first keyword posted day after day.  This may not be the first keyword you entered.

5. April 7, 2011 new issue found:

During our re-review we noticed the almost unusable condition of the Link Aloha csv spreadsheet that can be downloaded.

This is because all the data is placed in one column.

To make it usable, using our older version of Microsoft Excel we saved the file into a .txt format.  Then we opened a new blank spreadsheet and used Get External Data to import the text data.  We then told Excel that the pipe “|” was a column delimeter.

Voila.  A perfectly functional spreadsheet that properly shows each column of data in a separate column, not in one column.  This makes it so much easier to see what Link Aloha is actually submitting and doing with your campaigns.

Finally, keep in mind that all of the above can be tested and verified in your Link Aloha account.