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How to prepare to transfer a domain name to a new registrar – domains and hosts part 4/6

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How to prepare to transfer a domain name to a new registrar - What you need to know about your new registrar and your old registrar before you transfer your domain name to a new domain registrar.If your domain is registered with your host, you need to transfer your domain name to another registrar.  It’s best best practice for your domain registrar and host to be separate. My domain names are currently registered with my old website host; my current website host is both my host and my domain registrar. So I’m going to be transferring my domain name from a web host to a new domain registrar. I have decided to transfer my domains to Google Domains. Google Domains is a domain registrar; it is not a website host.

Before you transfer your domain name to a new registrar or host – just like reading a recipe all the way through before you start baking the cookies – it’s a good idea to read all the directions from start to finish! Also, just as it’s not a good idea to mix up a triple batch of cookies when you’v never baked cookies before, if you have more than one domain, transfer just one domain to start with, to make sure you do everything right….

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How do you transfer domain registration? – domains and hosts part 3/6

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How do you transfer domain registration? If you transfer domain registration how will your domain stay linked to your website? Will it break your website? Website tutorials for the Rest of UsMost bloggers follow the common advice and use their free domain name when they choose their website host. Once you’ve realized that your domain registrar and website host need to be separate, you might have some questions about moving your domain name to a new domain registrar. How do you transfer domain registration?…

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Best domain registrar review and guide – domains and hosts part 2/6

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Starting a new website? How to choose the best domain registrar and save money! First year's price isn't the only thing to look for. Avoid hidden costs!If you want to have a website with your own domain name, you’ll need to “buy” the domain – register it for a year or more. How do you find the best domain registrar?

How do you choose the best domain registrar?

Because I wanted to have separate domain registrars and website hosts, I wanted to move my domains to a new domain registrar. But when I started looking for instructions for how to move them, I found that all the help articles come from domain registrars or hosting companies themselves, and their instructions are specific to them. In addition, I had trouble finding good information about what to look for in a domain registrar.

In my last post, I discussed why you want your domain registrar to be different from my web host.

After researching domain registrars I finally decided on Google Domains. In this post, I’ll go over why I chose them.…

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What’s a domain registrar? – domains and hosts part 1/6

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Tips for building a website - There's more to your domain than just picking your blog name. When you're starting a blog, not knowing some of the basics can cost you money! Easy to understand definitions of web host and domain registrar, how to pick the best ones, and why using a free domain from your web host isn't a good idea.Just after my domains auto-renewed last year – at DOUBLE their original rate – I started coming across information about all the reasons it’s a good idea to have your domain registration with a different company than your website host. I’ve wanted to move my domain registration ever since.

Wait a minute, you might be thinking. I got my domain (for free) when I started my website. What do you mean there’s two of these things? Isn’t my host my domain registrar the same thing? How could I have two of them?  And just what is the difference between domain registration and website hosting?…

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Facebook Image Blog Post Test

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This is a test to see which image Facebook and Twitter pull from this post.

This is the alt text. Test to see what pins.…

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The Best Social Media Image Size

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This is is a template to help create the best social media image, the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site. My goal is a single image that will work on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Keeping in mind the optimal image sizes for 3 social media sharing sites: Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Social Media Sharing Image Composition Test 12

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This is test 12 of trying to find the best social media sharing image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. (Well, actually it’s about trials 12-15. I got tired of making so many posts and actually made several temporary posts and used many variations of the image below where I moved the face around.)

I need to test what happens if the eyes or face are really low or high in the photo. What kind of faces are recognized and what happens when the faces are really low or high in the photo?…

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Social Media Sharing Image Composition Test 11

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This is test 11 of trying to find the best social media sharing image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

I need to test what happens if the eyes or face are higher in the photo. What kind of faces are recognized and what happens when the faces are higher in the photo?…

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Social Media Sharing Image Composition Test 10

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This is test 10 of trying to find the best social media sharing image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

I need to test what happens if the eyes or face are further down in the photo. What kind of faces are recognized and what happens when the faces are lower in the photo?…

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Social Media Image Composition Test 9

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This is test 9 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

So far, I’ve found that with longer images, in a 1:2 ration, Facebook has smart cropping to a landscape image that centers on eyes. Twitter always takes a square image from the center of the longer image, no matter what is in the image.

However, …

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