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Original post by Mitch

You do not have to wait till Black Friday to pick up a great web hosting deal.  Right now, if you use the coupon code Thanks you can save 50% on a new Basic hosting plan. 

I could write a million and one words on how great the Basic hosting plan is, however nothing beats looking at the numbers:

12 Months of Basic Hosting

• Regular Price: $107.40
• After Coupon:  $53.70

24 Months of Basic Hosting

• Regular Price: $166.80
• After Coupon: $83.40

As our most popular web hosting plan, the Basic package comes with priority web hosting support and service, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, a free domain name and much more. You can find a better “Black Friday-like” deal in web hosting out there.

Sign up via Lunarpages.com today, use the coupon code Thanks, and let them know you heard about this great deal via your friends at blog.lunarpages.com. Happy Thanksgiving!

&copy Lunarpages Web Hosting - Also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Original post by Mitch

Now that Bing and Yahoo are teaming up with search, having your web site optimized for Microsoft’s new search engine is even more important.  While browsing through some of Bing’s webmaster documentation, I found a way you an submit your sitemap to them – in one single easy step.

All you need to do is copy and paste this into your address bar, replacing the sitemap URL path with your own.

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

If done successfully, you will get a message that says, “Thanks for submitting your sitemap”. 

For those of you who like to keep up with more data, you can also submit your site map to Bing by signing up or logging into the Bing Webmaster Tools section.  From there you can get access to more tools, like the keyword research tool, the HTTP verifier, and the robots.txt validator. 

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Original post by Mitch

When dealing with search engine optimization, a phrase you might hear tossed around is SERP, but many do not know what it really stands for. 

I’ll let you know what it is, and why you need to be aware of it.

SERP is the search engine optimization slang for how well your web site is ranked in the search engines for a specific keyword query.  Technically, it is a shortened version of the phrase search engine results page. 

Now where you rank for a keyword in the SERP is important, because the higher you are, the more likely somebody is going to click your link in the search results and check out your web site.

For an example, let us say I am running a web site about pro wrestling.  I have articles up about all the wrestlers, the big events and everything anybody would ever want to know about.  Now I would like to have a high SERP result for Hulk Hogan, because he’s one of the most popular wrestlers of all time, so there has to be a lot of people searching for him. 

You see, you want to target your pages at popular keywords that have to do with your web site’s content. 

The thing to remember is that you want to have as high of a listing as possible when it comes to the SERP, search engine results page, for keywords that have to do with your topic of choice.  So, whatcha gonna do with SERP-amania runs wild on you, brother? (ok, maybe one Hulk Hogan reference too many.)

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Original post by Mitch

Dear Citizens of Lunarville,

Yeah, I said it – Lunarpages sucks when it comes to meeting my expectations. How dare they go above and beyond the call of duty time and time again when I expect far less from them.  Oh, you want an example?

What about the time they offered to renew my account, saving me $50 in the process, and making me keep more of my own money in my wallet.  My wallet is very small, and is not used to having that much extra cash.

You know what else they did to me?  They told me I could give them two e-mail addresses to contact me at if anything ever happened to my web site.  Oh, so I guess now they really want to make sure if something bad happens they want to be able to reach me?  The jokes on them, my web site hasn’t even been down once since I signed up.

The one that puts the proverbial cherry on top of that darn web hosting ice cream sundae is the fact that they keep giving me web hosting tutorials to learn from.  Week after week I keep finding thing on their web hosting wiki to learn from.  What do they think, I don’t enjoy spending hours trying to figure out my problems?  Not only are they stuffing my pockets with more money, they are saving me more time in my day.  I guess now I have plenty of time to figure out how to get that extra money into my wallet.

This isn’t the last you have heard from me either – I will be back with even more ridiculous ways Lunarpages keeps sticking it to me with their “friendly” and “quality” service.

Yours Truly,

The Perplexed Patron

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