Small online businesses have different needs when it comes to finding the perfect web hosting service. The following are three of the best web hosting services for small businesses in 2010:
- InmotionHosting
- HostGator
- midPhase
Covering the basics
In weighing up the pros and cons of the various web hosting companies available, there were a few non-negotiable criteria that needed to be met by each. Each of the three service providers selected:
- Guarantee at least 99.9% uptime
- Provide easily accessible support systems that include Email support, Phone Support and Live Chat Support
- A long-standing reputation for providing excellent service and high levels of customer support
- Have a range of web hosting solutions such as shared web hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting. This allows you to upgrade your hosting plan quickly and easily, should your business experience rapid growth
Prices and packages
Basic web hosting packages for each of the three companies in this review include:
- Unlimited space
- Unlimited transfer
- Unlimited emailbox
InmotionHosting has a basic package priced at $7.95, making it the cheapest of the three. Its advanced options include 1 free domain; host up to 6 domains; complete data backup; e-commerce features.
midPhase provides a basic package costing $8.95. Advanced options for this web hosting service include the ability to host unlimited domains; nightly back up; one dedicated IP address.
HostGator has packages starting at $12.95. It contains advanced features that include the option of hosting unlimited domains; instant backup; one dedicated IP address.
What they offer
InmotionHosting focus on delivering professional solutions to their clients. They have the greatest customer satisfaction in the industry and fantastic
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One of the most effective ways to monetize your website or blog for little effort is to host advertisements from other businesses, for a specified fee. There are a few ways to work out this fee - each with its own pros and cons. Flat rate ads pose the least risk to both you and the advertiser in terms of the money exchanged. Let's take a look at why.
Three different types of advertising:
There are three main methods of payment when it comes to online advertising space.
- Cost-per-click (CPC) means that the advertiser pays you every time someone clicks on their advertisement from your website. CPC is useful if you want to pay only for targeted visitors.
- Cost-per-milli (CPM) is an arrangement whereby the advertiser pays you for every 1000 banner ad or text ad impressions on your website. CPM is useful for those advertisers who need to spread their message to website visitors. This option is best employed by websites that experience high traffic volume on a regular basis.
- Flat rate ads are sold for a set price, and are usually paid for a month in advance. This not only gives you total control on earnings but also helps you display only relevant ads on your website.
Utilizing flat rate ads on your website
High
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World Wide Web is a portal where even the tiniest information about this earth is available instantly and it is just a click away. So maintaining a web page for yourself in the portal is the best form of advertisement and thus to expand your business. But just having a web page won’t suffice. There are many more things to be done let alone just creating it. It has to be checked and analysed for the traffic it attracts and the contents to be posted and which content will suit the audience best are some of the things to be done.
But for doing all these tasks people are needed but if we carry on with appointing a professional for every such job then the firm will be left with not even a penny to move forward. How nice will it be if there is a professional for all these tasks, one who is multi-faceted and has various skills? You need not search for it. Omniture Analytical suite satisfies all your needs more than expectation and gives your business a sharp surge. Moreover the firms who have used this wonder product have assured great conversion rates and a good improvement in their ongoing bsiness.
This analytical suite uses a variety of tools to optimise your web page and thus develop your business. These tools each do a specific task like the tool site catalyst helps you to analyse the traffic and thus provide you with the information of visitors, thus if the
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Website owners are all looking for viable profit solutions. The earning potential for websites is tremendous and is available for all website owners to benefit from. You can get paid various ways over the internet. However, there is an alternative to the popular PPC (pay per click) method. When PPC was first introduced to the internet, the sweeping results were outstanding. The next wave of profit earning is called PPP or pay per play.
The internet has a known ability to foster unique and innovative ideas, system and technology. As a website owner, you job is to always be aware of the direction these profit technologies are heading in. You want to get involved ahead of the curve to brand yourself and your business along with a successful breaking trend.
PPP can definitely have a good effect on how you bring in profit for your site. Website owners now are receiving revenue from advertisements that were once exclusively used for mega television networks. The market share has opened up to include the web.
Major companies are now willing to compensate website owners for the traffic they get through their site to balance out some of the market share loss they are experiencing with television. Television viewership is not the same. More people are using the internet than ever before.
Affiliate Website
Your website or business may greatly benefit from becoming an affiliate. There are different tiers to being an affiliate and the profit earning potential presents a great chance to grow.
Tier 1: As a tier
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With the growing popularity of the internet and blogging, people are becoming increasingly interested in RSS. There are a host of new RSS software and websites dedicated to RSS. Because of this interest, webmasters are now beginning to publish their very own RSS feeds. Bloggers have a slight advantage because RSS publishing is engineered right in the blogging software.
Webmasters who are not bloggers will have to go to another resource to get RSS publishing and software. Take some time to educate yourselves about the benefits of RSS before you delve in. Publishing application for RSS is growing because now users have the need to be about to use a simple RSS software. These softwares can be edited. However, this is a very lengthy process. You can edit the RSS file in a regular text editor. Webmasters want to be able to benefit from having an RSS feed, but they are on the search for an RSS publishing software that doesn’t take too much effort to use.
Search the internet for free RSS publishing software. This is a great advantage. You can try whichever software you want without having to risk any money loss. You get all the time you need to get passed the learning curve with no commitment. There can’t be a safer or better option to test out software to see which best fits your needs.
There are many advantages to having
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Hiring a freelance content writer can save you time that you would otherwise spend coming up with content yourself. If the freelancer works to a professional standard, you should be rewarded with regularly updated, unique, error-free articles and content with which to furnish your website or blog. However, it is all too easy to hire someone via the internet and realise that they are in fact a dud. Hiring a bad, unprofessional freelancer can cost you time and money. However, there are a few hints that can keep you out of trouble.
- Hire through a reputable freelance site, such as Freelancer.com. Your chosen website should offer options that allow you to view freelancer feedback and a basic profile, as well as offering safe payment options and customer support services.
- Make a list of what you require in a freelancer, and do not settle for anything less than someone who meets all those criteria. In particular, if you are looking for article writers to write in a specific language (be it English or any other language), make sure they are fluent in that language.
- Request samples of applicants' work, so that you can make a more thorough assessment of their capabilities and potential.
- Freelancing can be risky for employers and employees in terms of payment. Freelancers are often wary of submitting work before they have been, due to the risk of being burned by dodgy employers. Likewise, the employer risks paying up with no further response from the freelancer. Rather than go the
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How to Enhance Compete Rank
Compete, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is a leading US data analyzing firm which can handle, organize and analyze a massive stream of data coming from some two million US web users. Compete judges the attitude of clicker’s incognito when they click on sites and get the response from them. Having the largest multi-sourced panel of data organizing, Compete works with unprecedented capacity to scan market trends and provides its consumers feasible digital aptitude. The thing which distinguishes Compete from other analyzing firms is its analysis of industry.
Compete uses meticulous numerical normalization method devised by its expert mathematicians to analyze data coming from its consumers across the States and determine top one million sites on the bases of virtual web users. It offers daily, weekly and monthly analysis to determine market trends and in this regard, it is accurate to a great extent. Compete does not draw on IP address, cookies or other user agents as most of the firms do; rather, it touches on unique visitors only and avoids cookies or blog agents. Having all technical expertise, Compete can gauge the internet attitude of its users and report web metrics to those sites which resort to them. Compete regards the confidentiality of its users and a scrupulous process removes the personal identification of the user before transferring it to Compete.
To go high in the ranking of Compete, you have to come up with novel services on your page. For example a hit TV show or
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All website owners are concerned with the current standing and success of their websites. There is a growing concentration on areas like search engine optimization and page ranking. There are various factors that influence and affect the popularity and relevance of any given website on the internet. Media professionals and web professionals alike are talking about the importance of search engine optimization.
Website Speed
Website owners should be aware of some of the less commonly known factors that affect search engine optimization. Experts say, to various agencies, that the speed of your website is crucial to ranking above the competition. If your website is slow for any reason your page rage could remain low if you don’t fix the issue.
What effects website speed?
The things that increase or decrease the speed of your website is web hosting, file sizes and images on the website. You have some web hosting options that operate with shared servers. These setups lower website speeds and also slow uptime. You can easily find a server to accommodate you. Upgrade your server and your sire speed will increase.
How important are images?
Next, pay close attention to the graphics aspect of your web layout. More doesn’t always equal better. Look at the format of your images. Are they JPEG or PNG. These formats are the ideal ones. If your images are in a different format change them. This directly relates to the file size and because of that the speed of downloads are also influence. JPEG and PNG formats help you
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Wordpress is a highly versatile blogging platform used by millions of individuals and businesses. One of its best features is the ability to include externally created 'plug-ins' which can perform various functions on your blog. There are literally thousands of plug-ins that have been created for use on Wordpress blogs. The following is a list of 18 of the most useful plug-ins for bloggers and small online businesses.
Google XML Sitemaps: Search engine optimization works best when your website or blog is easily indexed by search engine bots. Using Google XML Sitemaps ensures that your blog is properly indexed, increasing its web visibility.
Statpress: For all your statistics needs! Statpress collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browser and more.
Advertising Manager: Recognises a wide variety of ad networks, including Google Adsense. The plug-in manages and rotates ads on your blog. It can also be used to modify the positioning of advertisements within your blog.
Askimet: Provided by Wordpress, this handy plug-in is skilled at catching out spam comments without scaring visitors off with annoying captchas.
Bookmark Me: Bookmarking has become one of the key marketing techniques used by successful bloggers and business owners. Bookmark Me makes it easy for visitors to bookmark your blog for future reference.
Subscribe Me: The Subscribe Me plug-in adds buttons that let your visitors share your content on social media sites
such as Bloglines or Google Reader.
SRG Clean Archives: Not only does this plug-in
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Forget Office; Work From Home Online
Internet has provided such opportunities that many people opt to leave their jobs and start working from home, online. Even if they are working, they opt for freelancing to earn some extra money. It is not only professionals, but even students do freelancing to earn a good pocket money.
No matter from which field of specialization you are, there is something for each and everyone on the web.
Turning Blog Into Business
Could anyone ever imagine that their frivolous expression of thoughts over the blog could earn them good money? Maybe you happen to be a specialist in tossing the salad, or you happen to know the tricks to get good hands in a game of poker. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that there are many people out there, looking for exactly this information.
Life could not offer a better chance to work from home online. No matter what expertise you have, you will get readers on the web; condition is that focus should be on one subject, and it does not become vague. A careful play of words, added with perfect usage of words, would turn your creation into a most sought after piece of work.
The Affiliate Marketing
If you wish to work from home online and you have your own blog then a very good option is to go for affiliate marketing. This type of internet marketing is rapidly gaining much popularity. All you need to do is to place a link on
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