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Yahoo! GeoCities

Geocities is a free web hosting service by Yahoo which offers people a virtual arena to build community, groups and develop their personal websites. It is perfect to share pictures, stories with friends and family. Currently it is satisfying different kinds of user such as students for keeping their parents up to date about their college life, friends, common interest, research based groups, discussion and personal web users. The reason for geocities to be so popular is that its server’s uptime is very high, there are seldom any network data losses and above all it has very easy to use tools for developing websites online without having the knowledge of a web developer.

You can access to GeoCities premium services, which adds value with its user-friendly interface. An already registered user can just simply access the geocities.com by simply signing-in. New users have to make a new account to access the services of geocities.

Hosting a web using GeoCities.com

Web hosting using geocities is very easy. You can get a desire domain name depending on the availability of the domain name. There are different packages depending on the usage of the users.

Geocities plus offers a paid but ads free hosting. In order to get this premium service there is a fee. It has an additional value in form of more storage capacity for its users. Geocities pro is another very sophisticated offering at Geocities. It specially targets those people who want a full domain name. For example, www.yahoo.com! They offer domain name instead of sub domain names. However there is a high level of charges for this service.

Selection of package

Using Geocities is very easy. As it is based on a user-friendly interface, it provides detail information about all its offerings. Geocities is at top amongst it competitors due to there value addition and offer free blog, free website, easy web building tools and you don’t even need technical knowledge. Inside the package you have selected you can easily create your website and customize it by installing ad-ons and using existing templates. Free yahoo 360 blog is also very easy to incorporate and use within your free website.

Blog

With the increase in use of information technology specifically internet it is very difficult to differentiate an authentic data from non-authentic data. Blog enables users to share there viewpoints with others. It is more reliable because it shows the authenticity of users and information about the source of information. Yahoo 360 degree blog is also free at GeoCities.com.

Geocities Control Panel

Inside your account you can manage your website through the control panel provided to you. The control panel offers the help topics for getting started, site status and site activity which shows how many times the website pages have been viewed along with associated graphs. You can also join the community and use the message boards. You also have create, update website options, file management, promotions which include search engine optimization directory submission, direct marketing service and promotional campaign services to ponder with. In case you are troubled with the usage of the site then simple go to the help section and find out the missing links there.

GeoCities Yahoo.com Add-ons

You can make your webpage more useful and customized by placing yahoo ad-ons for the geocities. The famous ad-ons and widgets include the big day countdown which count downs till the specific set date and keeps reminding you about it and another popular ad-on displays the news headlines. Communication related ad-ons allows you to have a guest book, a yahoo presence indicator which tells whether a certain contact is online or not, and an email form. You can use the ad-square ad-on to display the affiliates and sponsors of your site and can even ad calendar, weather and web search facilities.

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Address

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Santa Clara CA 95051 US

Contact

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408.530.5002

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