Hosting solutions

At times you may find that getting the best results out of a hosting company may not be all about the software but a combination of technology and support that makes the value what it should be.

 

Right now we use five different servers, comparing each one to see how it performs, when one fails to perform correctly we cut it loose and then we hire another hosting provider.

 

When you have tons of websites to host you cannot just use any kind of hosting you need to divest into several different providers that way your never left high and dry as the old saying goes.

 

 One of the most important things you can do for your business is to manage your hosting never let you hosting manage you…

When we evaluate a hosting company, the first thing that we do is to content them and ask a question, Does not matter what the question is but its a good idea to make it a good one.

Once we do that we sit back and see how long it takes them to answer that question, one day, ok, sure not too bad, but if it takes like three days, were probably not going to be a customer of this company.

Again we want to know how long it would take if we really needed help.

We want to know if there is someone there that can actually answer the question in an intelligent way. We want to know what we can expect to get from this company if we choose them, because there are hundreds of companies out there and we do not want to deal with incompetence.

Creating, the best environment for your websites is not just a passing fad it is what good business people do to make it work right every time.

Why pay high prices for average services, if your going to pay for a good service make sure your getting what you pay for.

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Posted by website developer - January 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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outsourcing

Perhaps you may have heard all about how you can develop outsourcing content and outsourcing products online at a fraction of the cost of traditional development.

 

There are some issues you might want to have a close look at when you first start thinking about developing a working relationship with an outsourcing partner.

 

1. Communication is the best method you have to be able to create great gigs.

2. Find multiple methods of communication.

3. Make sure they understand what you “really” want.

 

Watch out for the middle man, If you have been involved in marketing or even buying products retail and wholesale products always have a middle man, it is a concept that is at the heart of what we have come to realize is how the world economy works.

 

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Posted by website developer - January 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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Mobile marketing

ipad apps, android apps, mobiles apps, are big business these days in fact

there are an abundance of apps from A to Z in terms of doing just about
anything you can imagine from turning on and starting your car, to adjusting
the heat or cooling at your home while you are at work.

Many small business locations are interested in having an app or a mobile website
but what goes into creating a mobile website?

 

It is more than just about the size of the webpage…

The size of the webpage is just one aspect you also need to consider how much
data you can logically transport from your website to the mobile device, and not
all mobile devices are the same some take forever to load a webpage, and if your
webpage is a large one, then likely users will navigate away quickly.

 

It is really not that difficult to do, from a design standpoint, however the real
consideration is one that you may not be aware of, popular is good, but will it
bring you new business?

Will it fill your store up with buyers overnight?

Probably not, and that would be the incorrect way to look at website or webpage marketing.

The best way to think about using the internet to help develop your business is to think of
your website as an interactive bill board where people can learn about your business and
find out what services you offer and even make purchases from you.

If you get just one more customer over a period of time per month or even less and your
website will have done its job.

That is the key getting one more customer at a time.

A lot of people get this idea that they will get rich as soon as they put up a website, but that
is really the wrong way to look at it, and the same goes for mobile marketing.

It may become the next great thing, but the truth is that even if you do not have a mobile website.
Mobile users can still come to your website and view it.

So the bottom line here is that you really do not have to do much to reach out to the mobile market,
what is really important is that if you have no website at all, you will never reach anyone.

 

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Posted by website developer - January 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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website design

There are several Important considerations in Website Design you might be surprised at how important these can be to your success.

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose.

Here are some important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, let your visitors feel like they want to buy instead of being pushed into buying.

3) Have a simple and easy to understand navigation system

You want to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus.

If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they’re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it — volume or muting controls would work fine.

6) update your website on a regular basis.

After a while the same old same old gets boring, so spice things up make a few changes, develop different types of content.

7) Keep your advertising down to a minimum.
I know it may be popular to advertise, advertise and advertise some more, but all in all the search engines dont really like to see a lot of advertising on a website simply because they know that a website visitor really wants to do one of a few things, they usually are after information.

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Posted by website developer - January 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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Designing a successful WEB PAGE

Creating successful content and articles.

You can develop your own content and most of the time it will be better than anything you can buy online.

This is a topic for debate, you will find many different opinions on many different web- sites online, some will tell you that you need to include robot text files, meta tags, and special search engine tactics to get your website listed on search engines.

The simple truth behind designing a successful web page is to create informative and compelling content in the form of information that is fresh and original.

“what if I don’t know how to write good articles” This is one of the most often asked questions, for new owners of websites online.

The secret to writing good articles is really simple just imagine that you are talking to a new customer and they are asking questions about your business.

Writing an informative article in a personable way is really not that difficult.

Ask yourself a few basic questions, you hear them everyday when talking about your business, just imagine you have a new customer and answer their questions in an easy to understand way, by writing this down you have a start to writing a good article.

Recently there has been a trend that was created for this basic website need.

Fresh Content and articles for free using a software tool, what this does is basically use a search and replace syntax to change content to make it appear to be unique, the truth is that this creates more problems than it solves, while researching this software I found several article farms, that recycles content.Basically you have this software that clones content and this is supposed to create unique content, what it really does is put your website out of business and out of the search engine spotlight.

Why you ask?

Simple, poor quality content and duplicate content is a (NO! NO!) and if you do this your website will suffer a slow and agonizing slid into the darkness of cyberspace.

There is no easy and painless way to become successful in operating a website. The truth is that in order to succeed you need to put a little effort into your work. No one makes a living for doing nothing. Effort is what separates success from failure.

Running a business is no different. You get what you pay for and you cant get something for nothing.

Ok I get it, but I am not a Pulitzer prize winner.

NO problem, neither are most of the writers online. You don’t have to be an expert writer to communicate with your visitor online. one of the best rules to follow, is to allow your work to flow with a conversational tone. You talk to people everyday in your work, your job and you life experience. Chances are you have a unique outlook that you can share with your visitor or client.

What if I don’t have time to create this content.

There are several alternatives, if you just don’t have time you can hire some one to do it for you.

This can be expensive, and again you get what you pay for, you can find several places that feature writers that will sell you articles for online publication.

The problem with this is that what you are getting is recycled content that is changed up a little to make it appear to be a unique article, what happens is that these people will sell you the same content that everyone else already is using online.

This does not work well for your success for many reasons.

The content may not be very good, and in fact is usually not good at all, with inconsis- tent information and poor grammatical placement, most of all it is not personable.

The best way to create good content is still by the DIY approach.

DIY (Do it Yourself)

This method remains the most effective way to create content.

Lets get back to the main question, no time!

Well you can look at it this way, we all have 24 hours in a day.

How you use that time is directly under your control, imagine what would happen if you decided to not watch TV for one afternoon, what could you do with that time.

For instance lets say that you take as little as 20 minutes of time you would have spent watching commercials on TV, not much to give up if you ask me.

So now you have 20 minutes you turn into an article, even if you don’t finish the article in this time you can always keep working on it until you get something new and interest- ing.

So what if it takes a couple of days to finish it, imagine what you could do by spending just 20 minutes each day writing a letter to your customers.

Tell them about your new product or service, pass along a tip you learned that saved you money or time in preparing a meal, any subject is great, but try to pick something that you believe in and are passionate about.

Create a little time to work on your website, watch less TV, take a few minutes out of your schedule and create something with your extra time.

Thank you for visiting, return soon for more informative articles.

 

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Posted by website developer - December 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

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starting a website?

Have you thought about creating a website?

You know that there is a learning curve in getting up to speed when you first begin to consider a website
business.

If you were to decide today to start a website would you know where to get started? You need three things in order to have a website.

  1. A domain name
  2. A web hosting account.
  3. Website files. Most Web design companies will not tell you the following information.

We feel that giving our customers the knowledge they need to make the right decisions is the right thing to do. Often many companies withhold this basic information as a method of making more money.

Example, buying a domain name ranges from $35.00 per year to $8.00 per year, yet there are many companies that will charge you the higher end of that range instead of the lower range, knowing that you can buy your domain name for less than ten dollars a year is part of the way we do business, we provide our customers with the information they need to save money. We feel that it is more important to provide this knowledge than to make a few extra dollars in profit.

To get started, you need website space, bandwidth and a domain name and you are ready to begin. Visit our learning center for more.. Selecting a Hosting provider.

Finding a Quality hosting account is often a difficult task, you literately have to read through pages of information, todetermine the best account that fits your needs and fits within your budget at the same time.

You will find thousands of hosting companies online and ready to take your money. Finding the right one at the right price can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack.

if you search for hosting on google you will find, 342,000,000 pages listed!  (that was ten years ago) Now there are over one millions 400 thousand pages, on hosting content

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Posted by website developer - December 18, 2011 at 8:45 am

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Articles and Content

If you are considering developing a website, think about what you can do and how you will do it,

writing is all about creating the best method of communication, that will also attract
website visitors to your website.

Developing content in a modern world, writing has long been one of the most respected professions.

Content is all about putting together words into meaningful and valuable associations.

Writing used to be only for a few selective educated individuals however that has changed over the years, in fact you no longer really even need a publishing company to get published.

Content used to be known as king not its valuable content that is kind, but what is value and how is it determined. The most important part of the website is the content, and contrary to what even Google thinks, people do not want perfect content mostly because we just are not perfect, the last person I knew that was perfect also walked on the water so why are we now suddenly deciding that we need perfectly formatted content from from any imperfection? A man who thinks he is perfect is a fool and the same could be said for a search engine that thinks all content should be perfect. Great articles and content should anticipate questions and satisfy the customers quest for knowledge, the vast majority of Internet consumers visit a web page to learn more about products and services they are looking for before making a purchase.

A successful Web page. What goes into a successful website.

You need a create content rich web site.

The content should be relevant and up to date as well as written in such a way that you are talking to the cus- tomers like they were standing in your store, because some day they may be standing right in front of you. Such items as articles, tips, tutorials that will hold your visitors interest and get them to return to come back to your site again and again. keeping your content Up to date this keeps the site fresh and interesting.Search Engines are looking for websites that offer fresh and informative con- tent for their visitors. When writing content use easy to understand words and avoid using slang; which many visitors may not understand.

Designing Content Articles. One key way to design a successful web site is to create original compelling content, not just once but keep it fresh and up to date. Remember to design your content to attract both the visitors and Search Engines, find and use the most relevant keywords for your articles. This is a must if you want your site to be successful. Never copy text from other websites and paste it into your website. One reason you should never do this is called duplicate content.

Duplicate content You can be penalized in the search engines when you duplicate content or in other words by taking an article from another website, (with permission or without) you create duplicate content, Search engines and web site visitors want to see fresh content, not thousands of web pages that contain the same information, it is frustrating to be looking for relevant information and not be able to locate it because everyone is using the same articles for content. If you want your web page to be listed in the upper end of the search en- gines listings, then you want fresh and original content. Creating great content is not that difficult, but it can be time consuming. If you were to write a new short article every day you could quickly generate excellent content for your web site. Spend just 20 min a day writing content and at the end of a week you will have a great resource for your clients and web site visitors. Learn more about SEO and Web pages at our learning menu. Thank you for visiting Albany Webs

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Posted by website developer - December 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm

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Websites

Remember the old days when every PC was beige, or if you were rich or lucky you might have had a Apple ll, but just about every website had a little Netscape icon on the homepage, Geocities and Tripod hosted just almost every single personal homepage, and “Google” was just a funny-sounding word?

The mid-late 1990s were the playful childhood of the worldwide web

So what about the future when you know the past then you have to look at the future.

Things have changed and they have changed so rapidly that few people have figured out which end is up when it comes to developing websites.

back in the old days, they charged like 3000.00 for just a five page website and they charged a lot more for a full sized website.

Now, you can get a website up and running for $4.95 cents per month, but really what do you have?

A $4.95 cent website, do you think that you will make any money from a junk website like that?

 

Probably not, but it is interesting to see how many people sign up for these build a website services thinking they will get rich.

The truth is that it takes effort and it takes a little work to get the job done better than the thousands of others out there.

Why were websites so bad back then?

Knowledge. Few people knew how to build a good website back then, before authorities like Jakob Nielsen starting evangelizing their studies of web user behavior.

Difficulty.

In those days, there weren’t abundant software and templates that could produce a visually pleasing, easy-to-use website in 10 minutes. Instead, you either hand-coded your site in Notepad or used FrontPage.

Splash Pages

Sometime around 1998, websites all over the internet discovered Flash, the software that allowed for easy animation of images on a website. Suddenly you could no longer visit half the pages on the web without sitting through at least thirty seconds of a logo revolving, glinting, sliding, or bouncing across the screen.

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Posted by website developer - October 21, 2011 at 9:27 am

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Content Creation made easy

This is one of the most powerful software products I have seen in a long time.

 

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Posted by website developer - October 3, 2011 at 4:13 pm

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Content is king

Writing Articles can be an Affordable Internet Marketing pastime.

More than that though you can actually make money from this process.

Spin Article 3, you need to check this out.

keyword suggestions marketing tools and other methods of generating content can be both good and bad there are literally many searches done to a certain keyword. When these keywords are typed on search boxes of search engines, indexed websites containing articles with those keywords will be displayed. And this is what leads visitors to websites with keyword-rich articles.

Content is king, right, you may have heard this published online.

You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Affiliate marketing media today. Internet surfers just can’t get an ample amount of information. Providing data through the effective use of articles is a great way to drive traffic to your web site.

The rewards that writing articles can provide your Internet business is something you should consider and it could create a huge boost in traffic too.   Get this tool at a good discount.

Article marketing is something that used to be one of the biggest methods of making money online however that all changed over the last few months when google started to manage its search results in a different way.

Imagine what it might be like to have a good source of articles that can be generated at the push of a button?

Well you might be surprised to learn that you can actually produce content using your computer, mouse and yes clicking…

Visit this website for more information.

 

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Posted by website developer - October 3, 2011 at 1:51 pm

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