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You are correct about the process. Pointing your domains to any web host is free. You do not need to transfer the domains. You can use the web host's nameservers, or simply use the domain registrar's DNS settings to point the domains. As a suggestion, it might be more convenient to purchase the domains and web hosting from the same company, but there is not really any benefit to doing that.

I think you could do 2 things right away with your existing sites, without changing anything. First is update with some of the latest standards, like using meta/schema rich snippets throughout your site, and using a CDN service to accelerate your site. Second is to give your site a little new life by doing extra publishing, promotion, etc for a given period. This might be enough to signal that you are getting more popular, and also better with website improvements, and more deserving of a high ranking.

No. Best practice is to use a combination of summary of your page, and engaging call-to-action for potential visitors to get interested in your content. Like a shout-out.

Google may decide to pull text from inside your page, instead of using the meta description.

Check out WooCommerce, it's a great e-commerce framework for WordPress.

When you upload the changes, are you sure they actually save, and are actually displayed when you refresh? Seems obvious but I've been tripped up before. A cache, CDN, or similar that you or your host might be running could interfere with small CSS changes.

Create a div that takes up the whole width. Create a table inside the div and set its width to 100%, then add two cells (<td>'s) side-by-side, then the code for each block in a <td>. They should be side by side.

Just add a class to the <ul>, then add the CSS: .yourclass li {list-style-image: url('/path/to/image.jpg');}

I think it would help visitors to see screenshots or visual examples of your recent work.

UnixBench is a very useful utility for benchmarking Linux systems, and creating reports for recording and comparison to other systems. It can be run on a dedicated server, VPS, or any system with shell/terminal access. To install UnixBench, access your system as root, and run the following commands: apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev wget htt p://byte-unixbe nch.googlecode.c om/files/Unix Bench5.1.3.tgz tar xvfz UnixBench5.1.3.tgz cd UnixBench ./Run If you can install UnixBench successfully, post your dedicated server or VPS benchmark here! Source: How to Install UnixBench on Debian/Ubuntu Dedicated Server

We often have requests to configure the “best rules” for mod_security. Mod_security is a popular Apache plugin that serves as a Web Application Firewall, screening requests coming in to the webserver based on a set of configurable rules. Because every website and application has slightly different circumstances, which will require some fine-tuning of the rules, there is no "best" ruleset. However, I want to share the rules below, which are a good basic set to use on a web server to enhance security. You should copy the entire text of these rules (or whichever rules you would like to activate) into your modsec2.user.conf configuration file, or the configuration file your mod_security installation has setup for user-configurable rules. If you do not have mod_security installed, it's very easy to configure with ConfigServer's free ModSecurity plugin for cPanel: http://configserver.com/cp/cmc.html Try the rules below, for example:

Well, we usually aim for a bounce rate 30-35% or under. I would consider less extremely good. Our sites are product/service oriented.

I've used gtmetrix, google pagespeed, and analytics, so I'm looking for another good solution too

Featuring them on your own blog, and syndicating the content to other sites as a reference, is a fairly good practice.

I think it's a decision based on the business/website. Personally I would hide the images folder by default, unless there are opportunities to title and tag certain images extra-appropriately, so as to rank them in Google Image search.