Google pays $31,336 bounty to hacker for reporting criticalvulnerabilities in Chrome | .::APAJR::.

Google has fixed a series of serious vulnerabilities in its Chrome OS, including three high-risk bugs that could be used for code execution on vulnerable machines. Bug bounties is the cash prizes offered by open source communities to anyone who finds key software bugs have been steadily on the rise for several years now.


As part of its reward program, Google paid out $31,336 to a researcher who found three of the vulnerabilities. Google's post notes: "We're pleased to reward Ralf-Philipp Weinmann $31,336 under the Chromium Vulnerability Rewards Program for a chain of three bugs, including demo exploit code and very detailed write-up. We are grateful to Ralf for his work to help keep our users safe."

The three-bug chain credited to Weinmann exploited O3D, a JavaScript API (application programming interface) designed for crafting interactive 3-D graphics-based Web applications. The API and supporting browser plug-in were created by Google, with a preliminary version of the latter released in 2009.



Vulnerabilities that Google fixed in Chrome OS 26:
[227197] Medium CVE-2013-2832: Uninitialized memory left in buffer in O3D plug-in. Credit to Ralf-Philipp Weinmann.
[227181] High CVE-2013-2833: Use-after-free in O3D plug-in. Credit to Ralf-Philipp Weinmann.
[227158] High CVE-2013-2834: Origin lock bypass of O3D and Google Talk plug-ins. Credit to Ralf-Philipp Weinmann.
[196456] High CVE-2013-2835: Origin lock bypass of O3D and Google Talk plug-ins. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
Google has paid out more in various contests it's run or co-sponsored, including $100,000 to a two-man team from MWR InfoSecurity at last month's Pwn2Own.


Most of the rewards are in the $1,000-$3,000 range, with some going above that, depending upon the severity of the vulnerability and difficulty of exploitation.


"The Chromium Vulnerability Rewards Program was created to help reward the contributions of security researchers who invest their time and effort in helping us make Chromium more secure. We've been very pleased with the response: Google’s various vulnerability reward programs have kept our users protected and netted more than $1 million dollars of total rewards for security researchers. Recently, we've seen a significant drop-off in externally reported Chromium security issues."


Other big companies also pays bug bounties, but unlike Google, does not release the names of researchers or the payments they receive.

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Google Hacked? DNS In Kenya Hijacked By Bangladeshi Hacker | .::APAJR::.

A report surfaced Sunday via Hacker News that Google had been the victim of a cyberattack. A Bangladeshi hacker, whose alias is TiGER-M@TE, claimed responsibility for what appeared to be a defacement attack of google.co.ke, the Kenyan version of Google's search engine.

The traditional white background was changed to black, and the Google logo was replaced with a red stamp that read “Hacked.” Users reported that music also played in the background.

Photo: Hacker News This page claimed to have hacked Google, but was actually a redirect page caused by a DNS infiltration.

The wound was only skin-deep. TiGER-M@TE did not actually deface Google, but rather infiltrated a domain name server (DNS) in Kenya and redirected users to an alternate website. The same thing happened to the Kenyan domains for Microsoft, LinkedIn, HP and Dell.

“Google services in Kenya were not hacked,” a spokesperson for Google wrote IBTimes in an email, adding that no user data was compromised in any way. “For a short period, some users visiting google.co.ke and a few other Web addresses were redirected to a different website. We are in contact with the organization responsible for managing domain names in Kenya."

The issue has since been resolved, and google.co.ke was back up and running as usual Monday morning, so it doesn’t look like TiGER-M@TE found any new vulnerability with Google. In fact, this isn’t even the first time this sort of DNS-hijack has happened. Servers in Romania, Morocco and Uganda were also used to redirect users to pages claiming to have hacked Google.

If anyone should be able to protect itself from a hacker, it’s Google. Last month, Google launched an initiative to help webmasters learn more how and why websites get hacked and what can be done to recover any lost or stolen data. It even presented an eight-step recovery process for victims of hacking.

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FBI Busts Hacker who blackmails 350 women for stripping on camera | .::APAJR::.

The FBI Tuesday announced the arrest of Karen 'Gary' Kazaryan, a 27-year old man, who is said to have blackmailed more than 350 women after convincing them to strip off in front of their webcams has been arrested in the US.

He was arrested in Glendale, California on Tuesday after being indicted on 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft, and faces a possible 105 years in the Big House if convicted. The FBI described the alleged blackmail as "sextortion".

He is accused of hacking into the victims accounts and changing their passwords, locking them out of their own online accounts. He then searched emails or other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the victims, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends.

He then posed online as the women, sent instant messages to their friends and somehow, persuaded those friends to get undressed so that he could view and take pictures of them. US authorities said they had found about 3,000 pictures of nude or semi-nude women on Mr Kazaryan's computer.

The FBI said that it hasn't yet linked all of the nude and semi-nude images with people's actual identities. "Anyone who believes they may have been a victim in this case should contact the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office at (310) 477-6565," said a statement issued by the bureau.

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Facebook Apps Promise Change but In Reality Phish Your Information | .::APAJR::.

Spammy Facebook apps are nothing new, the web giant has been dealing with suspicious behavior apps since the website launched the Facebook Platform for developers in 2007. As an open source app development tool, anyone can create an app, including people who really just want to steal your information, and your money.

With cyber crime  including identity theft, on the rise, more Facebook users should begin to pay closer attention to what they click on, especially if it is shared in a spammy way. Sophos reports that nearly 60,000 people have clicked on one scam in particular, which is one that promises to allow you to see who has viewed your profile. The app automatically posts a comment to the users timeline, and sometimes posts as a photo with the message ‘OMG OMG OMG… I cant believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile ! on (link here). ‘

The app does not actually allow users to see profile views but instead leads them, and anyone who clicks on the link posted to their wall, to a phishing scam designed to steal personal information. And despite the red flags, Sophos, who tracked a single link through bit.ly, found that more than 58,000 people clicked on the link before it was shut down.

Real Life Example

Another all too common Facebook phishing app is the ‘Facebook Colors’ app which can appear as ‘Facebook Green’, ‘Facebook Red’, or in the case of this demonstration ‘Facebook Black.’ The following app was installed on a computer with a fully working antivirus including a link scanner.

First, Facebook Black demonstrates a couple of spammy properties right off the bat. Typically when real people post, they do not post a photo and a comment, which is the first sign. Second, most will say something other than ‘check it out’. Last but not least, if you see more than one person posting the same comment with a link, you definitely have a spam app on your hands. For anyone looking forward to installing a black Facebook let’s look at where this particular app goes.

What this shows you is that despite being advertised as a Facebook application, it’s actually a web browser app. You will have to allow it on your Facebook first, but will then be asked to allow it in your browser. Should you install it to test it out yourself, you can uninstall it via your browser applications. After clicking ‘add’ you would expect to be taken to a ‘black’ Facebook. Instead, you get this page.

You can click on any of the three ‘ you've won’ options, although I tested all three and while two led to phishing websites, one was actually broken, which is more than a little hilarious. The broken link actually goes to this page.

Which is absolutely nowhere, and just about the safest you will get with this particular app installed on your browser. One of the other links was slightly less benign, and was actually picked up by the linkscanner on the browser.

Many Facebook scam and phishing apps promise users things that seem hard to resist. Options such as profile personalization, viewing people who spend time on your profile, and even some games can instead steal your information or spam your friends with malware and viruses, and post items on your wall without your permission. Most of these apps are designed to make money for the maker in some way or another, and usually that money is made off of you.

Warning Signs

Most apps on Facebook are perfectly benign and can be used without a problem. There are however a couple of basic signs you can look out for to help with recognizing scam and phishing apps.

• Automatic tagging and sharing links


• Automatic Commenting and sharing links


• Automatic Invitations


• Promised Features That You Haven't Already Seen in Use


• The App Vanishes With No Results After Being Installed

Removing a Spam or Phishing App from Your Facebook

If the app you have installed includes any of the following signs, you might want to remove it as quickly as possible. The current version of Facebook allows you to completely control which apps have access to your profile by clicking the small gear in the upper lefthand corner. From there, you can click ‘settings’ and then ‘apps’ from the app page. You can remove anything in the apps that you are not familiar with or did not install.

If the app has in fact installed to your browser, you can likely uninstall it by going into tools and then extensions or add-ons depending on which browser you are using.

Studies show that identity theft is once again rising to become the most popular scam. Phishing emails and apps are the easiest way to steal identity including name, phone number, credit card information, and even home address. An estimated 12.6 million Americans were the victims of Identity theft in 2012, a number that is nearly as high as the 2009 record of 13.9 million. The only way to protect yourself is by exercising caution and thinking before you click.

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World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet | .::APAJR::.

The last week has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and running.

                Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is a non-profit organisation that aims to help email providers filter out spam and other unwanted content. Spamhaus is pretty resilient, as its own network is distributed across many countries, but the attack was still enough to knock its site offline on March 18.

Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks.  A group calling itself STOPhaus, an alliance of hactivists and cyber criminals is believed to responsible for bombarding Spamhaus with up to 300Gbps.

The attacks on Spamhaus illustrate a larger problem with the vulnerability of systems fundamental to the architecture of the Internet, the Domain Name Servers (DNS). The high attack bandwidth is made possible because attackers are using misconfigured domain-name service (DNS) servers known as open recursive resolvers or open recursors to amplify a much smaller attack into a larger data flood.

Known as DNS reflection, the technique uses requests for a relatively large zone file that appear to be sent from the intended victim's network. According to CloudFlare, it initially recorded over 30,000 DNS resolvers that were tricked into participating in the attack. There are as many as 25 million of these open recursive resolvers at the disposal of attackers

"In the Spamhaus case, the attacker was sending requests for the DNS zone file for ripe.net to open DNS resolvers. The attacker spoofed the CloudFlare IPs we'd issued for Spamhaus as the source in their DNS requests. The open resolvers responded with DNS zone file, generating collectively approximately 75Gbps of attack traffic. The requests were likely approximately 36 bytes long (e.g. dig ANY ripe.net @X.X.X.X +edns=0 +bufsize=4096, where X.X.X.X is replaced with the IP address of an open DNS resolver) and the response was approximately 3,000 bytes, translating to a 100x amplification factor."

It now seems that the attack is being orchestrated by a Dutch hosting company called CyberBunker. As long as it's not child porn and anything related to terrorism, CyberBunker will host it, including sending spam.  Spamhaus blacklisted CyberBunker earlier in the month.

However, the DDoS attacks have raised concerns that further escalations of the retaliatory attacks could affect banking and email systems. DDoS attacks are typically carried out to extort money from targeted organisations or as a weapon to disrupt organisations or companies in pursuit of ideological, political or personal interests.

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Facebook Privacy Guide For Better Understand-ability Of Security | Privacy | .::APAJR::.

Facebook Privacy Guide For Better Understand-ability Of Security | Privacy | .::APAJR::.

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HI Friends There are Billions of Facebook users world wide also it is increasing rapidly day by day.when it comes to such number of users there is also an issue of privacy which is one of the most important concerns for all social networking site users .

From now on, new users will be given specific instructions on

• Facebook’s default settings


• sharing permissions, policies on data access


• rules about apps, games and third-party Web sites advertisements


• photo tags
  and the way the site finds friends and connections for new users.
  We Must admit that Privacy is a very delicate issue for Facebook, which has to carefully balance user privacy and comfort with the need for ad revenue.
  Last year, the company changed several of its privacy settings. For example, it decided to have users set privacy controls on a post-by-post basis, allow them to review picture tags before they appeared on user profiles and has made an effort to inform users about its policies for reporting and removing inappropriate content.
  Help other to stay safe And Know About Facebook Privacy settings :)

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What is Custom Blogger Domain and Blogger Subdomain? | .::APAJR::.

It is now important that you learn some basics in becoming a more established blogger in order to take your blogging career to the next level. People often use the free blog hosting service provided by Google blogger for 1-2 years and then they realize that they must change the irritating long Blogger subdomain into a professional looking custom domain. This week I will be focusing more on domain registration, DNS settings and the pros and cons of domain hosting. This post today gives brief knowledge of what exactly do people mean by custom and subdomains.

What is a Custom domain?

A domain is the web address of your blog or website. You are viewing this blog because you accessed it by typing the following URL in your browser,

www.google.com

A domain can end with any suffix such as  .com, .net or  .org etc.  Your Blog domain is your blog URL, the link that brings visitors and search engine robots to your blog.

What is a Sub Domain and Custom Domain?

Sub Domain:
A subdomain as the name itself says is a sub part of a domain. For example Google.com is the main domain for Google but since Google+ is a sub part of the services provided by Google then its web address takes the name plus.Google.com
Similar your free blogger blog is a service provided by Blogger and when you create a blog using their platform they attach their trademark in the form of a sub domain to your blog Name. If your blog title is named XYZ then it will appear like this,

XYZ.blogspot.com

If you are using a WordPress blog platform then it appears like the following,

XYZ.wordpress.com

Custom Domain:
A custom domain is your personally owned web URL that is your property and does not belongs to someone else or is a sub part of another service. When I purchased the MBT domain all my .blogspot.com were replaced with .com. This in other words means domain redirection. I just need to pay less than $10 per year for the domain hosting charges and that's all I pay from my pockets. All my files are stored for free at blogger.
Now the question is how to remove the .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com subdomain names from your blog and get a full fresh branded custom domain of your own? The answer is simple buy a domain from a good web hosting company. Read the next part of the tutorial to know why.

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10+ Reasons Why you should buy a Custom Domain For Blogger | .::APAJR::

We all take the first step in initiating some work or business but as we move on we often make many mistakes unwillingly. Most bloggers start their blogging careers by signing up for a free blog hosting Content management system like Blogger.com but most of them don't realize the disadvantages of using a subdomain.

When you start blogging with free sub domains. All people that know you get familiar with your blog through that subdomain. As time goes on your rankings increase and you attract a handsome traffic then you realize that you are not receiving sponsorship and neither are you earning. But when you finally decide to purchase a custom domain you get confused with several questions in mind. You start thinking whether or not you will loose your rankings, PageRank , Alexa etc. So to answer all these questions carefully read the following reasons that tell you why should you buy a custom domain as soon as possible.

1. Reputation in Blogosphere

Blogs with .com domain are naturally respected more than blogs with sub domains such as .Blogspot.com. Link exchange with niche blogs or expanding your blogging circle is only possible when you join the .com club

Its feels really great when you share your Blog URL with your friends and family as opposed to the embarrassing lengthy BlogSpot domain :p

2. Most Advertising services do not accept subdomains

Services like buysellads do not accept subdomains which means that you are loosing 50% of revenue potential.

3. Fans & Subscribers Increase with Custom domains

People will follow you only when they know you offer something they don't have. But when they realize that you using a .blogspot.com domain, they will take a not-so-good impression of your content and would not bother following someone who is himself a free Resource user. Most people take .com or .org domains as commercial websites ran by teams or group of people and often subscribe them and follow them via Twitter, Facebook or Google friend connect. The reason is simple your domain is enough evidence that you are taking your work serious by spending some money on the service that you use and you are not just another free monger.

4. People Will Share and Bookmark Your blog posts

After giving a first good impression, people then happily share your post with friends and family. They will confidently bookmark it and visit it often to gain more knowledge because they know the work comes from an authority. This is one reason why subdomains do not play well on social networks whilst blogs with custom domains get fair amount of traffic from networks such as Stumbleupon, Digg, Facebook and Twitter.

5. PageRank increase slowly With Subdomains

Using a blogspot domain means that the chances of getting more backlinks is minimum for you. I personally don't link subdomains because often these blogs are created on temporary basis and once they are deleted the link on our blog becomes a dead/broken link which can effect our blog ranking. Therefore web owners prefer not to link them and even if they link such blogs, you will always find a nofollow tag attached to it.

6. You just need to buy a domain and not the Hosting

When you purchase a domain for your blogger blog, you then don't need to do anything else. Just sit back and relax. Fortunately Blogger hosts all your blog posts for free at its server contrary to what Wordpress does. That's one of the biggest reasons why people like me prefer blogger over Wordpress.

7. Rankings will Speedup

As more and more people notice your blog and bookmark and share it, your ranking on SERPs which is search engine results page will increase. the more Diggs, Stumbles and Likes you receive the better you go higher but all these social favour is possible only when you own your branded domain and not a free one which discourages readership and content sharing.

8. PageRank will stabilize On next PR update

Most people having PageRank greater than 2 often don't go for domain change because they fear that they will loose their PageRank. No doubt its true but you loose it only at temporary basis. Once Google robots locate all your redirected links, your rankings will be granted back to you on next PageRank update. My PR dropped to zero from 2 when I changed my domain but just after three months on next PR update cycle I got back the rank I owned.

9. You can Grow your business

Once your blog attracts traffic and readership, you can then offer guest posting, product reviews, sale banners, and earn day and night. Sponsors will advertise at platforms where they find quality traffic. Subdomain holders are always underestimated even if they have a plausible traffic strength.

10. It Costs Less Than $10 To Buy a domain!

UPDATE: Now you can buy a domain as low as $7.5 from Godaddy!

We spend so much on our stomach buy fast food stuff, spending around $50-$100 weekly. Can't we spare just $7-8 per year for an online business? I would not exaggerate this point any further.

What are you thinking now?

I have explained as much as I could with my limited scope of knowledge trying to prove the advantages of buying a custom domain as soon as possible. I wish that you may start a happy business online and may become a valuable input to the online media. You just need some hard work at initial stage and then work online will be no less than a fun. Happy blogging buddies. :))

You must be thinking how to buy a domain? This question will be answered on my next post. Kindly stay tuned.

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Why We Migrated this Blogger Blog To Hostgator ? | .::APAJR::.

                    

 

MBT went down yesterday for 24 hours because we have made some major improvements to how this blog will operate  in future. I would like to thank everyone for their consistent feedback and for bearing with us during this maintenance. We are in no way interested in upgrading it to Wordpress or any other platform. This blog will remain hosted at Blogger and all its posts, image data and feeds will keep on operating from Blogger.com servers. I personally took this huge risk of transferring MybloggerTricks.com domain from its previous registrar to HostGator because I wanted to add some new features to this little blog. Readership is increasing and I am not able as an individual to do justice with dozens of queries posted everyday. We are looking forward to build an active, lively and useful community for newbie bloggers.  In order to bring more exciting ways of improving the standard of blogspot blogs we needed extra storage space and sub domains. All this is possible with an extra premium space where we can save our resources and introduce new online tools. In order to make this possible we transferred our domain to Hostgator and purchased an extra space.

 

What Do We Mean by Migrating To Hostgator?

 

Blogger provides free hosting service. You don't need to pay for uploading your posts and images. Everything is free for every user except a custom domain and extra space for storing your external files like JavaScript, Flash, HTML pages etc. A normal Google blog has the following similar URL:

 

xyz.blogspot.com

 

When you buy a custom domain like .com or .net. It gets branded with a more professional look like this,

 

xyz.com   or xyz.net   or   xyz.org

 

 

Now that was just a domain purchase but what if you are looking to open a forum or a service page for your blog? You need subdomains for that, which means you need web hosting for those new pages. Following URLs are examples of sub domains,

 

services.xyz.com

forum.xyz.com

portfolio.xyz.com

 

We needed a reliable web host which could provide us with  domain hosting as well as web hosting. I researched deeply which web host to choose. Every hosting company was offering something new and exciting but I was looking for a webhost with great customer service. Finally we chose Hostgator due to their excellent developed servers, online reputation and extremely friendly customer service. I can't thank enough the technical support provided by Hostgator's live chat service. Whether it was about DNS settings or understanding how to use the Cpanel, the agents were extremely helpful. They chatted with me for hours during the transfer and helped me with everything I needed. All this  technical help was offered for free. In fact I learnt a lot from these conversations and can now confidently guide you all with every technical detail that you may need to take your simple Blogger blog to the next level.

 

Our Commitment

 

I never called this blog mine and this is one reason I mostly avoid saying "I" and rather prefer saying "We". This blog is running thanks to kind readers like you. If there is anything that gives me more happiness then it is "Helping you with your problems". We have been asked several times that why don't we upgrade this Blog to Wordpress. My answer always remained simple. "Blogger provides us with everything we need then why transfer and waste money?" Blogger has highly secured servers with 24 hours run time, free unlimited image storage and video storage capacity. Yes Wordpress is very good because there are thousands of developers producing something new each day and I respect that. So far for this blogging level, Blogger has provided us with all facilities and we will keep on educating newbie bloggers with new exciting tutorials, widgets, templates and resources as long as we can. We wont abandon you by making a migration to a different platform. We will always work hard and serve you to the best of our potential. In my coming posts, my main focus will be discussing the technical details of this network expansion. Thanks for turning this simple blog into a great community. Peace and blessings pals! :)

                           

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HostGator Best Hosting Plans For Bloggers | .::APAJR::.

 

 

 



 

No matter whatever blogging platform or content management system (CMS) you may be using, the topic today will discuss reliable and affordable web hosting plans that you can purchase to kick start your blogging career. Advertisers and direct sponsors have started giving more value to blogs which are self hosted and produce quality content. Here we will discuss how to transfer your current domain to HostGator and at the same time buy a reliable hosting plan. We will also answer some frequently asked questions to keep things clean and clear.

Why HostGator?

For this I have written a detailed article that you can read here:

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  Why we migrated this blogger blog to hostgator?

I wont tell you any technical details here like unlimited bandwidth, Disk space, sub domains etc. I would only highlight their excellent customer service. You always need active real support from your web hosting company so that in times of technical need you may not feel helpless. Whether you are a customer or just a passing visitor the agents there are always available to give free help and suggestion.

Web Hosting companies are examined and tested by Online testing organizations and critics every year. HostGator has amazingly moved ahead of everyone in the world of web hosting for speed, reliability and support for over 9 consecutive years. You can Read the long list of awards they have achieved so far at their homepage.

I must tell you that these awards matter a lot because they are reviews collected after detailed research and they are not paid reviews. Therefore their authenticity is always respected and can't be ignored.

I researched for almost a week before choosing our web hosting company. Almost every professional blogger, designer and developer that I came across used HostGator as his web host. I read their reviews and read several forums before making my mind to choose HostGator to provide us with a storage space where we could save our resources and tools. Its one month now since I first joined HostGator and the experience so far has been outstanding. I am learning and experiencing new technologies and can easily apply them to the blog because all latest web technologies and development tools are fully supported by HostGator Control Panel.

They also provide free SEO software to monitor and track performance of your blog along with free $100 Adword and $100 Yahoo Ads campaign if you live in USA.

What can I create after buying a hosting plan?

You can create almost anything using the softwares found in HostGator control Panel (Cpanel)

1. 
   
   Blog Software  eg: Wordpress, LifeType


2. 
   
   Forum Software


3. 
   
   Gallery Software


4. 
   
   Guestbook Software


5. 
   
   Website Builder


6. 
   
   Mail Software  eg: xyz@facebookcom


7. 
   
   Social Networking Software   eg: Facebook, mySpace


8. 
   
   Wiki Software


9. 
   
   Survey Software


10. 
    
    Billing Software


11. 
    
    Chat Software


12. 
    
    Directory Software


13. 
    
    eCommerce Software

I am using Free Blogger, How would it effect me?

You can continue using blogger the same way you did before. You will write and access your posts from blogger.com dashboard as you normally do. Everything would remain the same except that now you don't need to save your style sheets, scripts and web pages on third party servers. You will have your own allocated disk space at HostGator which you can use to create unlimited numbers of sub domains like a Forum, tool or services Page. Your blog would load much faster than before and would grow more popular amongst the readers and daily visitors.

You can create a separate webpage for any purpose you may like. For example: You can create a uniquely designed webpage for each of your Ebook promotion or any other product promotion. You can do everything that pro bloggers have been doing so far.

I am using Free Wordpress, How would it effect me?

You can easily transfer your posts to your self hosted Wordpress blog with the help of agents. HostGator guys provide great support for Wordpress and the community is always more  helpful in your case. You will have all the privileges that I explained for a blogger user.

Will Domain Migration Effect my Ranking or Traffic?

Surely not! You can migrate your domain from your current registrar to HostGator within a week and during this time your website would work just normal. It wont stop working or show a no server found error. The transfer never effects your traffic or ranking. Since you are not changing your domain address and just the company who owned your domain therefore all your backlinks will still point to you and you can continue enjoying the PageRank Juice.

However if you are using Blogger.com then your website will go down for just 24 hours till your DNS settings are propagated successfully. We had informed our readers when MBT was about to Go down for a day. Luckily things proved more easy then we expected thanks to the sincere help of HostGator Agents.

How much will it cost me?

It will cost you less than $50 per year! Imagine you waste more than $100 per month on your stomach and accessories, a small budget can build your entire future career. I have share below discount Coupon codes that you can use to get up to 25% discount on your hosting plan.

Ready To Become a Webmaster?

If you have made up your mind just like me and wish to start experiencing the lifestyle of a webmaster for less than $50 per year then the details below is what you must understand and apply the sooner possible:

HostGator Hosting Plans

There are three business plans that HostGator offers which are:

1. Hatchling Pan   (The plan that we use)

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  Single Domain


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  UNLIMITED Disk Space


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  UNLIMITED Bandwidth


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  Shared SSL Certificate


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  Starting at $3.96/month   Which means $48 per year   This will decrease further after applying our 25% discount coupon

2. Baby Plan

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  UNLIMITED Domains


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  UNLIMITED Disk Space


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  UNLIMITED Bandwidth


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  Shared SSL Certificate


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  Starting at $6.36/month  which means $76 per year. Would further decrease with Discount coupon

3. Business Plan  (Obviously Not for bloggers)

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  UNLIMITED Domains


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  UNLIMITED Disk Space


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  UNLIMITED Bandwidth


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  FREE Private SSL & IP


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  FREE Toll Free Number


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  Starting at $10.36  Discount Coupon Applies

I use Hatchling plan for running this blog and I will highly recommend it if you are planning to run just one domain on a single HostGator account. If you have more than one blogs/domains than Baby plan is a much profitable hosting plan for you. We are planning to launch a new blog so we will be upgrading to baby plan because we can run two blog networks on a single account for less than $76 per year which is just amazing. This amount will further decrease thanks to discount coupons.

Conclusion:

Use Hatchling if you want to run just one Domain

Use Baby if you are planning to open more domains in future.

For How Many Years Should You Register?

Register your domain for no less than 3 years. If your register for Less than three years suppose 1 year or 2 years, then it would cost you more because higher discounts are given only when you register for a minimum of three years. We registered our blog for 3 years and I advise the same for you. Higher Discount Coupon codes do not apply for less than three years.

Once your registration expires after three years, you can then easily renew it. They wont terrify you with deadlines.

25% Discount Coupon Codes

If you register now using the coupon code below during the sign up process you will get 25% discount on any hosting plan you choose. You can enjoy free first 7 months with the following discount codes:

Click this link and try it.

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Why Host Blogger or Wordpress Blog on HostGator? | .::APAJR::.

Blogging is your business which requires investment both in terms of energy, time and money. As time goes on your little blog will grow and draw attention of search engines and social media in terms of traffic. Visitors enjoy when you offer something unique and something that may help them and provide them with a reason to visit your blog. I started blogging in 2009 with blogger and as time passed I started enjoying it and this hobby turned into a profession. I needed a reliable company to help me expand this little blog so that tomorrow we could add new tools and resources to it. Readers deserve the right to be provided with an open forum where they could exchange ideas and interact more openly with one another. Off-topic questions often result in deletion and therefore a Forum becomes important when you want to keep things simple and clean.  Google Blogs unfortunately doesn't allow access to the server where your files are hosted for free. Which means you can not create sub domains for your blog where you could add a Forum, portfolio page or services page. Thus a reliable web hosting company becomes a necessity.

Note: This is part1 of our series on choosing Best Hosting for your Blogs. I will be sharing my personal experiences here, technical details, personal help, web hosting plans and discount coupon codes.

 

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What is Web Hosting? What Difference will it make?

Web hosting in layman terms is simply buying a storage space for your website and all its files. Your files will be stored in secured hard disks owned by the web hosting company. Like all our files of services page, tools and Forum are stored at HostGator. The style sheets, the JavaScript, the HTML pages, images, videos and any media used on our website sub domains are stored in secured HostGator servers/computers.

You can create a whole new website and attach it to your blog. For example our services page which is still under development is a complete new website linked to our blog through a sub domain. What is sub domain? Its actually a sub part of your main domain. For example:

Domain

www.google.com

Sub Domains

services.google.com

forum.google.com.

portfolio.google.com

ebook.google.com

editor.google.com

Not just that, you will have free Email Accounts that will give you a professional Email address like.

nuxious@facebook.com

You can even create a wordpress blog with hostgator like everyone else. With web hosting you have a complete control on your website and you can equip it with anything you wish.

What is Domain hosting?

Domain hosting means that you are simply purchasing a custom URL like  .com .net or .org etc. which may mask  .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com. It costs around $10 to buy a domain from blogger itself. 80% Blogger users purchase domain instead of web hosting because they think that web hosting is a lot expensive and they can't afford it. They also live in a misconception that why buy hosting when Blogger provides it for free.

Its true that blogger blogs are hosted for free but with just domain hosting you are sacrificing a great investment. This is what you can not do with domain hosting:

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   You can not create sub domains

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You can not create multiple email accounts

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You can not create web pages

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You can not create a Forum

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You can not store or upload files

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You can not learn and experience new tools and technologies

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You will always run after free storage services. Everything on your blog will always be owned by someone else. From your contact forms to scripts that you use are stored on third party servers, thus making your blog's load time damn slow.

   
   
   
   
   
   


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   You will remain a Blogger and will never grow as a webmaster

   
   
   
   
   
   

Domain hosting costs around $10-$15 per year and web hosting costs less than $3.96 per month or $40-$45 per year. We waste hundreds of dollars per month but just $40 dollars per year will bring you in a much better and comfortable stage. You will learn playing with tools daily!

Why HostGator?

We never talked about web hosting and haven't written a single tutorial on it before. But now when I have personally experienced what it feels like to be a webmaster I can share its pros and cons. Its been a month now since we purchased web hosting for our blog and sub domains from HostGator. I always wanted to learn how forums works, how files are uploaded via ftp, how html web pages are created and stored on a server and etc. I thought all these things would require great technical skills and it would not be a good idea to put your money at risk. I lived with this thought for a year and just a month ago I realized how successful have my friends grown and I was there still depending on free lunch. I was scared how to start but then almost everyone whom I asked for suggestion recommended that we should choose HostGator as our web hosting company. I visited Hostgator's homepage and started my research. Whether I searched for the list of top 10 web hosting companies or best web host or best Forum host or best blog host, I found this blue crocodile every where.

Their homepage is full of awards and achievements that speak for itself but that still doesn't matter if your hosting company has a poor customer service. Their amazing 24/7 Live Chat service is something I can't stop praising. Without their excellent technical support I could not have learnt and experienced tons of things that I apply to this blog daily. We had to transfer our domain from old registrar to hostGator and for this we needed help and guidance. Amazingly HostGator helped us far more openly than our registrar who even lives in my town. Whether it may be a simple query or technical help, the agents at hostgator wont tell you what to do, they will themselves manage everything you want. My DNS settings along with Email Accounts were all setup by an agent for free. I just sat and relaxed.

About their technical details you may better visit HostGator Homepage.

HostGator is crazy

I really mean it! HostGator guys are simply crazy. On every special occasions they offer discounts as far as 80%. Hosting for three years which could cost $150  would cost you just $30!  I will be updating you with such discount coupons in my coming posts.

If you register now using the coupon code below during the sign up process you will get 25% discount on any purchase your make.

Click this link and try it.

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If you are buying a hosting for just one year or two years then using the following coupon will give you $9.94 OFF

Click this link and try it.

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How to Host Blogger on HostGator?

Analyze whatever I just shared today and Research for yourselves until you are convinced. Your blogger blog will still be accessed and used via blogger.com. You will write your posts like you normally do. You don't need redirection or anything. You wont loose traffic, pagerank or any other harm. Take our blog as an example, everything looks better than before. You just need to buy a domain from hostgator along with web hosting and then tell the Agent via live chat to do the work for you and set your DNS settings. Within 1-2 days you can enjoy a life of a webmaster. You can create a Forum, portfolio, download page, services page and even a wordpress blog. If you don't use Blogger and wish to start a wordpress blog straight then there can be no better web host than this blue crocodile.

Note: Before making any purchase please wait for my next post which will share step by step help on what plan to choose out of Hatchling, Baby and Business.

I am running out of time as its too late here. I will write a detailed post tomorrow telling you what plan to choose, for how many years should you register an account, and all the technical details required. I will share some more discount coupons and would try my best to share a discount coupon of 50% so that you could enjoy free web hosting for the first year. Please clarify all your doubts by asking relevant questions. I will make sure to reply them the sooner possible. Its time to take a smart step. Peace and blessings pals! :)

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Why Buy a Domain For Blogger or Wordpress Blog From Godaddy? | .::APAJR::.

                                           

Well, beginners often get confused when it comes to getting their own domains for their blog. Its far more easy than what i thought of, before having one for myself. As recently Blogger's Custom Domain Setup Process Simplified making it far more easy for the beginners to jump of this barrier.

Godaddy, that is the largest domain registrar in the world that provides hosting too. They are linked with Google Blogger when it comes to domain registration. You can buy a domain from your blog through Blogger settings >> Publishing options. The process would require you to add your credit card details. This is how you can get your domain from Blogger.

Godaddy offers a domain for 11.49$ (it was 7.49$ a few days back in sale) where as you get a domain from Blogger at the rate of 10$ per year. Godaddy offers some exciting features and support with its domain package that is very rare in the market. Below are the listed 8 Extras that Godaddy provides with their domain registration. Please note that you don't get these features when you buy a domain directly from Blogger but buying from Godaddy will offer all such exciting features.

1. Hosting With Site Builder

Now when ever you buy a domain from Godaddy, they provide you with a free site builder (a basic one for beginners) by which you can create your one page website. Beginners often love to have a website of their own and this can be a good opportunity. Though it doesn't attract me at all, as there is no way i would be using a single page website. (may it be for contacts for what ever).

Though its great for the starters as the hosting for that single page is free and it could be really pleasing to have a website up in a few minutes. There are few templates (themes) that you can apply to your page. You can create small family private page, contact page or a brief portfolio for your self. It can anything.

2. Personalized Email

This is something great as its not offered by many domain host companies. What you basically get is your own personalized email address. Like presently you might be using yourname@gmail.com etc. But with this free feature, you can get something like yourname@xyz.com.

A domain name that is specified with your blog name. Thats indeed a great offer. Other wise, you have to buy this feature separately with other domain registrars.

3. "For Sale" Page

This is indeed a very useful feature. How? Imagine you have been blogging from years an now you want to quite your blogging career for any reason, and for that you dropped down your hosting company, and your blog is no longer live to the world. Plus now you want to sell your domain name too. So for that purpose, you get a hosting area for that particular sale page with Godaddy, so that you can at least sell your domain online.

So it can be handy.

4. Go-Daddy Photo Album

Godaddy provide you with a personal photo album that would be linked with your domain name. There are password protection rights available for the album too. I don't really think such an album would really make eager to get the domain but still its one of those features and it may attract beginners.

5. Getting Started Guide

Godaddy has provided a getting started guide where by they aim to give basic of getting started online and setting up your first website in simple ways. It can be really help.

Total DNS control

As with most of the other popular domain registrars, Godaddy provides with full DNS  (domain name hosting) controls where you can set up your sub domains, email

addresses etc. Its a must feature.

6. Status Alerts

Another great feature that i liked was status alerts. With this feature, you no longer have to remember expiry date of your domain. If you have provided the credit card details, Godaddy would automatically renew the registration fee at the end of the year.

7. Domain Forwarding And Masking

Normally domain forwarding cost some extra sums but Godaddy provides this for free with their domain sale. Its the process where by you can forward, redirect your domain to any other, like change your blogspot.com or wordpress.com blog to your own custom domain.

So Godaddy is one of the great domain registrars to opt for. Even though it cost a little bit more than other registrars (our local ones) but provides in with some very useful services that we can avail.

 



 





 







 

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Killer Tips To Increase traffic on your Blog | .::APAJR::.

As per one estimate, there are more than 156 million public blogs found across the globe. But how many of these are read and followed or even found over any search engine is a big question. Creating any blog for business or any other purpose is a simple thing to do; however, making it popular across your readers is a challenge. You have to invest your time, money and efforts in getting the right target audience for your blog. The below mentioned tips would guide you to get a substantial amount of traffic to your blog.

Incorporate quality content:This is the most important element of blogging. People come in search for interesting and useful content at various blogs. Updating content on a regular basis with useful and quality content can help you in getting traffic to your blog. If you frequently update your blog with a proper weekly schedule, you would get repeat visitors. This will also make your blog search engine friendly improving your web page rankings over prominent search engines. To drive effective traffic to your blog, you should always have meaningful in your posts along with proper frequency.
The search engines:
You very well understand the importance of content optimization with popular and relevant keyword and key phrase research. However, this doesn’t mean that your content comes with excessive use of keywords or key phrases. By doing this, you will reduce the quality of your blog posts. Besides, these keywords should be used in your title, description and tags. Further, you need couple of quality inbound links as an effective SEO strategy. For this, you need to put your blog content over popular sites and blogs related to your niche area and link back to your blog. While linking back, you should rely on using popular and relevant keywords. These things will make your blog more visible over popular search engines.
Harness the power of comments:
Commenting is an easy and effective tool to increase traffic to your blog. To begin with, you need to respond the comments left over your blog posts by your visitors and thus trigger a two way communication. This will improve reader loyalty. Secondly, you need to leave comments on other blogs; this will help you to pull new and unique visitors. While leaving comments, you should include your blog’s URL; this will help you in creating backlinks for your blog. It is therefore important to leave meaningful comments over other blogs and provide a link to read more on your blog.  
Guest posts:
The idea of guest posting is really helpful in getting a decent amount of readers or traffic to your blog. This is pretty different than adding comments. Once you are able to connect with any popular blog of your niche area, create the opportunity for guest posts. If you post something interesting, useful and relevant content, you can certainly expect a good amount of traffic to your blog.  
Try forums:You can find a wide range of forums unlike the way you see blogs. You just have to find a relevant forum of your niche area subject and keep posting on a frequent basis.

Submit your posts on social bookmarking sites:
In order to boost traffic to your blog, you can think of submitting your quality posts and articles to various social bookmarking sites. Submitting your best posts at sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, etc. are simple ways of getting good traffic to your blog.

To run your blog with success, you need traffic. Trying the above tips and tricks can help you get a substantial amount of traffic to your blog. You just have to try these ideas with consistency to reap the best result.

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How To List Your website on Google and other search engines | .::APAJR::.

Welcome back to the episode of Blogging. Previously we have discussed about Getting
Traffic from Search Engines,
Hopefully all of you already added meta tags in you websites, if not then read this Post
and follow simple steps for bigger results.
And if you want to know more about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) read This Post
Now Lets start with new Episode to See “how to List Your website on search Engines”

How To List Your Website On Google

First of all, Add “meta tags” on your website, After Adding Meta Tags Go to
Google URL Sumbit Tool and submit your website/blog address in URL field then
Type captcha and click on Submit request.
For getting more traffic From Google, use Google webmasters Tool
and submit more than 1 sitemaps for getting better and improved result from Google.
Default site Maps for Blogger :

• http://website/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated


• http://website/feeds/posts/default?


• http://website/rss.xml


• http://website/atom.xml

After submitting your sitemap, Make “Backlinks” for Your blog/website. Backlinks will help you in getting Google Page rank, Traffic Quantity From Google Search Results Depends on Google Page rank,
After Making Backlinks, Ping Your Backlinks to Search Engines
Best Ping Tools :

• www.pingfarm.com


• www.pingezee.com


• www.bulkping.com


• www.pingfarm.com


• www.autobacklinkbomb.com

Now Take a Break! Your website will indexed in Google in few Days.
if you are using a Premium domain then it will take few Hours Only

Sumbit Website To YahOo !

Go to Yahoo site submit tool and submit your website there
you have to verify That You are website owner on Yahoo webmaster
you must have a Yahoo id for verifying your ownership, you can verify with adding Meta Tag in website

Sumbit Website To Bing

For sumbiting your website To Bing Make a Hotmail account, then Goto Bing webmaster Tools and sumbit your website !

What To Do After Sumbiting Site Map ??

For Faster Indexing in Google and High Rankings, Ping your sitemaps to
search engines
Best Ping Tools For sitemaps

• http://sitemapping.net/


• http://www.pingsitemap.com/


• http://www.getrank.org/google-ping/


• http://www.ongsono.com/submit_sitemap.htm

Most Easy Way To Sumbit Sitemaps

• http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.xyz.in/sitemap.xml


• http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http:// www.xyz.in /sitemap.xml


• http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.xyz.in /sitemap.xml


• http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http:// www.xyz.in /sitemap.xml

Replace www.xyz.in with your website/Blog URL and Goto url,
now you have done.Follow these steps and wait for the next post. These tips will surely help
you to increase number of visitors including Better page rank in immense way.

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How to Increase your Facebook fanpage likes!! | .::APAJR::.

Yeah we create Facebook Fan page Start inviting our friends but it all gets boring when only the people we invite like our fan page. But today I will teach you how to increase your Facebook fan page like.

                                 

To the main deal
1. Register Here

2. Log into your account, then locate Add Site/page(see screenshot below)


3. Now select Facebook likes, and fill up the below form


Now after you might have added your Facebook fan page We move to the next step

How to increase your fan page likes
Now here's where the real work starts before you can start getting likes to your fan page you first have to get points you can get free points and you can also buy points, well I'll be talking about how to get free points.

Step 1. Goto the homepage of the site then click on free points


step 2. select the category where you want to get your free points

step 3. After you might have gotten enough points lets say 1000, we now goto where our fanpage is by clicking the "My site" Button


step 4. You set the Cost per click(CPC) NB: the higher your CPC the more likes you get.

Save changes. Now watch your Facebook fan page likes increase.

Having any trouble?? Just use the comment box.

If you found this post useful kindly Share in facebook and Like our fan page.

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The Difference Between a DoS and a DDoS Attack | .::APAJR::.

DoS = Denial Of Service

DDoS = Distributed Denial Of Service

What is the difference between the two?

Whilst DoS and DDoS sound remarkably similar there are in fact differences between the two -

DoS

A DoS Attack is a Denial of Service attack.

This means that one computer and one internet connection is used to flood a server with packets (TCP / UDP).

The point of such a denial of service attack is to overload the targeted server’s bandwidth and other resources.

This will make the server inaccessible to others, thereby blocking the website or whatever else is hosted there.

DDoS

A DDoS Attack is a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.

In most respects it is similar to a DoS attack but the results are much, much different.

Instead of one computer and one internet connection the DDoS attack utilises many computers and many connections.

The computers behind such an attack are often distributed around the whole world and will be part of what is known as a botnet.

The main difference between a DDoS attack vs a DoS attack, therefore, is that the target server will be overload by hundreds or even thousands of requests in the case of the former as opposed to just one attacker in the case of the latter.

Therefore it is much, much harder for a server to withstand a DDoS attack as opposed to the simpler DoS incursion.

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Guide to change your [blogspot.com Or wordpress.com] to dot.tk in Blogger | .::APAJR::.

Are you publishing your blog with Blogger.com? Are you feeling that your long domain name like your-blogname.blogspot.com, giving you bad reputation at many points of view? If your answer is yes! Then you came to right place and read out my post.

Why should I change to custom domain?

Search engines except Google, rest of all will never result your blogspot well at their listing. Social networking sites don’t like your blogspot.com tag when compared with top level domain. They don’t love to back link you. Moreover, the blogspot.com domains are blocked by some Internet service providers including China. You can also get custom e-mail like admin@your-domain.com with Google Apps. So this time, I am posting step by step guide to set up a custom domain using Dot.tk.

Guide to set up a Dot Tk custom domain using free DNS service:

Registering Dot Tk Domain:

Step-I:

1. Go to Dot.tk website.


2. Enter your preferred Dot Tk domain name and click Go. If entered domain is available, you will be promoted for further steps.

1. Now it shows availability of your domain.  For free domain you need to produce minimum of 25 hits per 90 days. Free domain has same services as paid domain. Select your choice and move on to next step.

1. Enter your blogspot URL and set registration length as 12 months. Now sign up with Dot Tk. Here you have to verify your Dot Tk account by email or you can also use social Networking accounts like facebook, yahoo, flicker etc.

Dot Tk settings in Blogger:

Step-II:

1. Log on to your blogger account.

1. Go to Settings and find Publishing option in your dashboard. Now click on Add a Custom Domain. You will be prompted to buy a domain for your blog.

1. Simply click on Switch to advanced settings. Then enter your Dot Tk domain with www in the place of www.filmyhub.tk (as shown in the picture). Now you have to verify domain ownership by adding two CNAME records. For this, click on Settings instructions. You will be landed to a page that having dynamically generated CNAME valus with detailed set up instructions.

DNS Configurations in Dot TK:

Step-III:

1. Now log on to your Dot Tk account and click on Domain Panel. It gives the list of your Dot Tk Domains. Now, click on Modify option to configure DNS Settings for your domain.

1. Here, you will get a pop up window of Domain settings. Select Dot TK DNS Service and configure your DNS settings like above shown screenshot according to your domain name. You will find dynamically generated CNAME values in below image.

1. For the first CNAME, enter Host Name as "www" and IP address as "ghs.google.com". It is fixed for any blog. Second CNAME record needs dynamically generated values. It means Host name with dynamically generated name (which is highlighted in blue) and IP Address with dynamically generated value like "gv-xxxxx.domainverify.googlehosted.com" (which is highlighted in pink). These fields are different for different blogs. Do not forget  to select record type as CNAME record.


2. To make your naked domain available, you have to add A record with following details. select record type as A record, then fill Host Name field with your dot tk domain without www (example: filmyhub.tk ) and IP address as 216.239.32.21


3. Before you move onto next step, wait about 30 min or an hour for your DNS settings to activate.

Saving Custom Domain settings in Blogger:

Step-IV:

1. Again go to advacned settings that configured in second step under publishing and save them. If you get any error, come back after some time and save settings.

1. Once you are done with saving, under publishing edit your custom domain and set redirection option by putting tick mark as shown in picture.


2. If you have any trouble in following any step, put a comment that helps me to catch you back.

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