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- Selecting Web Hosting On Price
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Cheap is very tempting. It’s very true that “you get what you pay for.” It holds truer when paying for technical support services through your web host. It can be tempting and disastrous at the same time. The Internet is saturated with companies offering cut-rate hosting, loaded with astounding features! They have you caught up in the hype of the moment and you think that it makes sense to save a few dollars. Think again. Consider how much you would be saving, not just in terms of cost but in terms of technical support. If you run a business site, saving $5, $10 or even $15 a month is not that big a saving. These kinds of so-called savings can stop a business cold. It is wise to look beyond price when choosing your web host. You need to also consider the following 3 suggestions.
Read more... - Great web site design features
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As a professional web design business, we have created and re-created many sites. The "great" ones have certain things in common. We thought we'd share those elements with you…
1. Easy to read. If background colors or images are used, the text on top of the background should be in a color that can easily be seen. Use a color scheme that complements and is pleasing to the eye. White space between images and sections of text make a page easier to view. Read more... - How Reliable Is Your Web Hosting Provider
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The reliability of your host provider’s servers should be a constant concern to you. After all, you rely on their reliability to keep your business running. How can you tell just how reliable their servers are? Follow this simple process and test it out for yourself.
- Access your host account
- Find the control panel associated with your account under “server status”
- You will find a server load value
- Refresh the page and notice that the value has changed. It is a value that calculates instantly
- Make note of the values you obtain
- Log out
- Go back and repeat this periodically, each time noting the values. You will come to realize which values are the usual ones.
Read more... - Hidden Perils of Low Cost Web Hosting
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Some folks classify low cost web hosting on the same level as free web hosting and while this may seem a little harsh, there are certain factors one needs to be very careful about when going for low cost web hosts. One of these is downtime. There is really no point in spending so much time and money constructing a good site and then ending up in a situation where people cannot access your site. So when choosing your web host from the thousands of low cost web hosts out there, there are a few things you should do to ensure that downtime does not kill your business as you use a low cost web host. Read more...
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If you are like most online entrepreneurs, you've been struggling to grab your share of that flood of traffic that you hear about from every guru wannabe out there. Chances are you have probably invested heavily in search engines, banner ads, classified ads or even spent a mint on so-called "safe lists" only to find yourself disappointed again and again. There is a perfectly legal, extremely effective, traffic generation technique that, until now, has gone relatively unnoticed by the masses. What if you could recover existing web traffic that is currently being overlooked and basically being flushed down the drain? What if you could grab one of those prized listings in Yahoo that cost $200 with no guarantee you'll even be included in the directory? What if you could get that traffic for a fraction of what other advertising methods charge? Expired domains might be an option to consider. Every day over 3 million hits of targeted traffic are lost due to abandoned web sites. Why does this happen? Webmasters may lose interest or they don't have the money or time to manage the site. Sometimes they just forget to renew. A large portion of these expired domain clicks come from sites that were never developed. BUT, some were once solid sites generating traffic and sales. Expired domains is all about capturing all the effort, time and money that the previous owner developed and putting it to good use for yourself. What if a domain name had link popularity, had a coveted dotcom (.com) extension, or was even listed in Yahoo or had Google Page Ranking? What is Link Popularity? Simply put, Link Popularity is the number of other websites that link to your site. Doesn't it stand to reason that if a domain name previously had Link Popularity or was one of those coveted dotcoms or was even listed in Yahoo, that it might have once been a thriving website? Not only that, but with a little time and effort, you might even be able to pick up some popular domain names just for speculation or to resell on eBay! Many of the domain names that expire every day could be resold even without Link Popularity or any of the other "carrots" because they just happen to be highly regarded as a tangible asset. Short, descriptive domain names that end in a ".com" or ".net" are examples of this. The best part is that you can get these names for the price of registering them, often for less than $10! Even if you didn't use the domain name to redirect traffic to your own web site, if you find a couple and sell them at auction for $25, $50 or more, that's a pretty decent return on a very small investment. A certain amount of caution needs to be taken when using this tool for any purpose. Make certain you do a bit of homework to make sure the previous web site was not an adult site. Sometimes the domain name may not necessarily reflect the former content. There is a tool that can be used to determine the history of the site. Best of all, it's free! Here is the link: http://web.archive.org If you are looking for alternative ways to generate traffic to your site, expired domains might be a good investment.
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