Hover 101
Tips for using www.hover.com
Post Your Resume Using Hover URL Forwarding
This lesson provides an example of how you can post a resume online and use our URL forwarding services to redirect a registered domain to a popular professional social networking website called LinkedIn.
Doesn't http://bevis.barber.net or http://www.bevisbarber.com/resume look more professional than http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/bevis-barber/18/576/946?
Let's face it, in today's economy you need every edge you can get to assist with your professional job hunting. Using a registered domain or personalized email address with professional social networking websites is a great way to improve your online presence and professional image.
Take advantage of Hover's URL forwarding services to link a personal domain or registered domain to an online profile or resume.
LinkedIn - Social Networking Example
Visit www.linkedin.com and fill out the Join Linkedin Today fields.
Be advised! You may receive marketing email from LinkedIn or other LinkedIn users. If you use Hover email services and you want to avoid receiving unwanted email to your Hover hosted email address, then I suggest signing up for LinkedIn using a separate email address, such as a free Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo email account.
Complete the fields and click Continue.
An email will be sent to confirm the email address that you used during registration.
Log into your email account to open the LinkedIn Email Confirmation message, then click on the link to confirm your email address.
Click Confirm.
LinkedIn will provide you with the option to search email contacts in Yahoo, WIndows Live Hotmail, Gmail, and AOL to connect you with any contacts you have who already have LinkedIn profiles.
You can invite others to join you on LinkedIn, or skip the step.
After logging in, it is a good time to create your Profile. Click on Profile and select Edit Profile.
Use the Edit My Profile page to publish details on your professional work experience, education, links to other websites you have, your Twitter account, etc.
Click on the View My Profile tab, Copy the URL for your Public Profile.
Log into your Hover account online at https://www.hover.com/login.
If you need to change the domain being managed, go to the List of Domains tab then click on the service to be used with domain forwarding.
Click on the Manage Forwards tab then click on the plus next to Hover Preferences.
Stealth redirection will mask the destination address so your personal domain remains in the address bar. Select "My home page should: Forward to another website" then paste your Public Profile URL into the "Forward to:" box under Hover Preferences. Click Save.
More detailed step by step instructions on using domain forwarding can be found here.
In this example, http://bevis.barber.net has been successfully configured to forward to Bevis's LinkedIn Profile page.
Need more help purchasing Hover services?
Step by step registration tutorials can be found here:
Purchase your own registered domain name
Purchased a personalized email address and sub domain.
Please note that Hover/Tucows has no direct affiliation with LinkedIn. Here are some other sites you can use to post your resume online:
http://www.myresumeonline.org/
http://www.resumerabbit.com/
You can find more great social networking opportunities from the following list on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
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como puede redirigir mi pagina web a otro servidor pero no los correos (DNS) How can I just url forwarding but i don´t like forwarding my DNS (e-mails)
Thanks
@Omar - Thanks for the question! If you aren't using Hover's name servers, but you want to use our URL forwarding services without changing your name servers to Hover or affecting email services, then you would need to ask your current DNS service provider to change the A records for your domain to 64.99.80.30. This is the IP address of our forwarding server.
Changing the A record will point your domain away from any web hosting services, so make sure you are prepared for a short disruption while waiting for the new A records to propagate. Our URL forwarding will take control over the redirection of your domain name once your Internet Service Provider has updated their DNS cache and sees that your domain is pointed at 64.99.80.30.
As long as your DNS provider makes no changes to your domain's Mail Exchange (aka MX) record, your email will continue to function normally.
More information on using separate web host and email service providers can be found in this tutorial: http://about.hover.com/customhosts
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