Posts from — May 2008

Web Hosts - Customers as top priority

The web hosting industry is one of the most competitive industries on the Internet today. Web hosts are constantly thinking of new advertising campaigns in the hope of attracting more interest to their company; and, hence to attract more customers. While this is an important goal for any web host it is just as important to recognize and value the customers you already have. [Read more →]

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1. Collin LaHay’s Blog Marketing Tips
2. Link Building Bible
3. Google Analytics
4. How to promote your website
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If you run any Google AdWords campaign, particularly for competitive keywords, you are probably somewhat familiar with the quality score ranking algorithm for all web sites running AdWords campaigns. It is yet to take place, but it is believed that Google will soon factor page load time into its quality score for AdWords campaigns.
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At the recent Ad-Tech Conference in San Francisco, panelists discussed the impact of social media in aiding companies and their market brand. It has been three years since a poll found that 55% of all companies polled had setup blogging initiatives. Since that time one thing has been proven correct, social media has redefined the definition of branding. [Read more →]

Trademark sunrise and company sunrise period for registering .asia domains are now over. Landrush is about to start and it is time to get a domain which will target the world’s fast-growing online business markets. During the landrush period anyone can get an Asian domain without restriction. Landrush starts on the 20th February. [Read more →]

Although Microsoft raised their bid to $31 a share (an estimated $44.6 billion in total) there for search engine powerhouse Yahoo, the acquisition was not meant to be. Yahoo claimed the price was still under bidding the value of Yahoo, a point that was only driven further home by the continued stock price gains of the company. [Read more →]

After starting your website with a Shared Hosting service, you may find yourself in a bind. Bandwidth is constantly being exceeded due to high traffic, making your site load at the pace of a tortoise. This means one thing: It’s time for an upgrade!Dedicated Servers are a great solution for sites that have outgrown the limits of Shared Hosting. They provide you more control and better security while giving you robust storage and bandwidth for your site. Plus, you still don’t have to worry about physical server maintenance, as it is the host’s responsibility.
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Ever wonder why some web hosting companies are able to offer shared hosting services at ridiculously low prices? These companies are more than likely engaging in the act of overselling.

Overselling is when a hosting company sells more disk space and bandwidth on a server than actually exists. For example, say the server is oversold by only 50GB of storage/bandwidth. Overselling is not really an issue here since the amount is small and most sites on the server aren’t using all of their allocated resources. However, say the server is oversold by 1000GB of storage/bandwidth. This situation can cause the server to have performance issues and even go offline if enough sites are using their allocated resources.

So what are the best ways to protect yourself from overselling? First, you can research potential hosting companies at SG Web Hosting Talk. The user base there is very knowledgeable and has years of experience in the web hosting industry. Second, beware of very low prices when looking for web hosting services. If you come across a deal that says you can have 5GB of storage and 10GB of bandwidth for only S$5/month, then the deal is probably too good to be true and the host is engaging in overselling to lure in masses of customers. This is not always the case, but is a good guideline to follow.

Always do your research before signing up for web hosting services. In the end, you’ll be glad you did, even if you end up paying more for better service.

HostSG never believe in overselling, thus our web hosting plans are always fairly price with reasonable storage and pricing. We make sure there is sufficient storage and bandwidth for every single customer before we priced our hosting fees. Yes, our hosting plans may not be the cheapest around, but we have customers (including MNC) that has been using our reliable services for more than 9 years since 1997. We invest heavily in our network infrastructure to offer the best server uptime and stability possible. I am sure most customers would want to have their web site and email services up 99.5% if not 100% , rather than paying peanuts to have services up today and down tomorrow. In the worst scenario, the overselling company may have closed down and your data is lost.

When it comes to keyword optimization there are a number of opportunities out there especially in niche areas. We’ll show you how to optimize for keywords successfully.

Search for the right keyword to optimize for

Thousands of people optimize the keywords in what THEY THINK people are searching on, which in most cases are simply useless. You can score #1 for keywords that nobody is searching on. To know what are the actual keyword that work for your industries, you can use Wordtracker. [Read more →]

Whenever a customer buys a product or subscribes to something, they always end up on a “Thank You” page. It’s obvious.

You can use this to your advantage by doing more on it than encourage your customers to close the window. [Read more →]