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How Good or Bad is 1&1 Hosting?

This isn’t a review as most of you would think. I know that I haven’t posted in a long time here on Enkay Blog but I think the time has come that I do start posting on here. I’ve missed the blog a lot and school has now come to a close and that means, more time for my blog. Interestingly enough, this comeback post is somewhat weird for me. I have been with 1&1 Hosting for about 4 years now and have never had any problems but I started to get concerned after I received this email from a reader who is also a member on a very popular hand-held PC forum. A forum where I have been a member for about 5 years.

The email is as follows – ” Figured I’d share my experiences with 1&1. I am glad you are having good luck with them, but honestly, I have no good words for them. The domain was stolen a few days before the last PocketPC Magazine hit the stands, in which my software won a major award, and I was receiving a lot of exposure with DVD Catalyst Free due to a LifeHacker article. They took over the domain at the time the domain was the most popular, and nearly killed my whole business in the process. Because of their thievery, I’ve been struggling ever since. Finally last November I got a lucky break, but take it from me, change your registrar company before you end up like me.”

The thing is that I have heard of PocketDVD and I think that this story does have a lot of truth to it and I strongly feel for this individual. I also understand what is going on. I even looked up what this person was talking about and its very true – this has happened to a lot of people. Now, I figured that I am a loyal customer so why shouldn’t my hosting company be loyal to me? right? well, I want to ask these questions directly to 1and1 so I hope that someone is willing to answer these questions for me.

So, if anyone 1and1.com representative comes across this or anyone has had experience with this issue or has heard others that have had this issue please write in the comment box below as I would love to hear from you. So lets see the comments! Also, do let me know if you’ve experienced such problems or even similar problems with other hosting companies.

Be An Internet Marketing Rockstar

So you may have seen ShoeMoney wear the Affiliate Marketing Rockstar shirt and now its my time to showcase this great shirt. Before I begin though, I wanted to talk a little bit about the man behind the shirt. His name is Clark Covington and Clark has really put together an amazing list of services.

He has over thirty unique businesses to his name and offers services of all kinds. If youre looking for ebook related marketing, autoresponders, newsletters, pretty much any type of seo related or internet marketing services, Clark Covington can offer you all that and more. Visit his website to check out his entire list of businesses and if you’d like to get a shirt, you can actually buy one just by going here. Hope you like the shirt and ofcourse the picture below! Have a great weekend everyone!

Weekly Update – October 28th

So, I have to apologize and let you know ahead of time that this week might be a little slow because I have a lot going on in terms of school but I’ll try to post as often as I can. First off, as promised, there will be a surprise the beginning of next month. This was something that was in the works but its in the process of being finalized. So that should be some good news.

If You Win, Reply!
The winner of my ebook contest never replied so David, the runner up, actually got sent the iPod today in the mail! This is why you should always check your email, you may miss out on some exciting news and free stuff too!

Welcoming My New Advertisers
If you haven’t noticed, I have almost sold out all my ad spots which is great news for the blog. I wanted to welcome the two new advertisers before I go into the weekly update for today. So, say hello to Thousand Dollar Profits & Andrea from According to Andrea!

      

Weekly Link Love

1) Suite J - Suite J talks about how the things on your desk relates to your personality. I think mines more of a control freak and a show-off type of thing. See where you fit in!

2) Franklin Bishop – Franklin discusses how to build a community on your blog which is very important for you to be able to sustain your blog. It should feel like a community in order for comments and interaction to take place. Its a great post that you should check out.

3) WebTrafficROI – WebTrafficROI talks about why they love twitter and why you should too. Twitter is a great tool that can really help you out in the long run so if you don’t know how it can benefit you, this list can help you realize that.

4) RomanDock Dot Com – Nick discusses how bloggers are getting their hands in the cookie jar. Its an analogy for how bloggers that are growing tremendously are not appreciative enough of their readers and what they should do and think about in order to maintain the one-to-one relationship with their readers.

5) Bruno Auger - Bruno discusses what SEO is and the importance of SEO which stands for search engine optimization. This can really help boost where you place in search engine rankings and this is a great post to help you realize what it really means and entails.

Well, thats the weekly link round up! Thanks for stopping by and once again, apologies for having a slow upcoming week but I promise to make it up to you guys. Have a great week ahead!

The Weekly Blog Roundup – July 28th

Heres another one of the weekly roundup posts but this time I’m going to mix in some competitions while we’re at it too. So lets take a look:

Derek Semmler – Derek has contributed greatly to this blog and recently when I was looking over his blog, I saw a post that said that I was listed at #5 in the Top 10 Websites that send him the most traffic. Aside from that fact, Derek has an AMAZING contest going on. If you’re a blogger then attending the BlogWorldExpo is like reaching utopia but then again, those things aren’t free. They cost $300 but Derek is going to give away a free pass to BlogWorldExpo if you write a post about why you should be a speaker at BlogWorld and he will pick one winner, based on the how good the response was. This contest ends August 6th and if you’ve been wanting to go and the $300 price tag was slowing you down, you should definitely give this a shot.

John Chow – has a contest along with Bic Pens that ends really soon at the end of this month and I hope to score another one of those Flip Cameras because I know it will come in handy

TheNetFool - Jim has a really great post asking whether Page Rank does a good job in accurately judging a websites popularity. He includes an extensive list (which has always been a +1 for me) of blogs and their PR and his opinion as to whether they are overvalued, appropriate or undervalued. Its a great post that you should check out.

Balkhis – Syed’s most recent post about his day long trip wearing his Market Leverage strikes a familiar chord. I’ve been wearing the golf shirt Market Leverage sent me and I really like it even if its a little bit on the large side. I think its obvious that Syed and I really appreciate the shirts considering people ask us about it all the time. Aside from that, Syed’s ebook “How To Make A Magazine Style Theme In Wordpress” has been downloaded over 2000 times already so you should check it out if you haven’t already.

Market Leverage Walks – Debby Phillips and Jen Fluker from Market Leverage are walking 60 miles for breast cancer together with the Affiliate Marketers Give Back group. They have a goal to raise $45,000 and are currently at a little over $29,100. Market Leverage is matching every dollar that is donated towards this great cause. If you would like to show them some support, please consider donating by using Debby’s Donation Link or Jen’s Donation Link.

So that wraps up this week’s blog roundup and I hope to see many more articles come up in the following days so that I can enjoy them and blog about it so that my readers can check them out also. Thanks again for stopping by! Remember, my Market Leverage contest ends within a week so sign up if you haven’t!

Wordpress Blogs on iPhone or iPod Touch?

Have you happened to think about what happens to the iPhone and iPod Touch users when they visit your blog? Well, if you don’t know, let me explain. Basically, the entire page is loaded up and fitted to a 3.5″ display. In order to read your posts they have to use their fingers to zoom in on the post and scroll side to side. Doesn’t that sound somewhat boring?

Well, theres a twist because theres a plug-in called WPtouch by BraveNewCode that will make life a lot easier for your iPhone and iPod Touch users. What this plug-in essentially does is, it automatically displays your blog in an iPhone compatible theme when it recognizes that the user is using an iPhone or iPod Touch.

It also allows them to switch between the customized iPhone view or the Normal View so its easy to flip back if they rather see it in normal view. The best part is that its highly customizable from the Wordpress Admin panel. The plug-in was really simple to install and just needed to be activated for it to work.

To demonstrate, I whipped out my Flip Mino and did a small tutorial on an iPod Touch.

So now that you realize what this can do for your readers, you may want to install WPtouch . The reason is that very soon there will be a large number of iPhone and possibly iPod Touch users and you wouldnt want to disappoint them by having them zoon into portions of your blog. Many major websites such as FatWallet, Facebook, Google and even Twitter have an iPhone specific design. So if you want to keep up with the times, add this plug-in and make life a little more easier for your iPhone and iPod Touch users.

Note: I apologize for the brightness issues with the Touch. It seemed as though if I made it brighter it wasnt too clear but if I lowered the brightness then it would act as a mirror of everything else but the screen. Hopefully its clear enough considering I dont have any fancy lenses or anything.