"Attention: What You Need To Know, But Were Afraid To Ask About Web Host Providers..."
Do You Live In A Bad Server Neighborhood?
With thousands of web host providers in the market it can be difficult if not impossible to know which web hosts truly provide an excellent web hosting solution at an excellent price.
When you have an established domain name with a quality web hosting company, you can get reports on your traffic and which of your web pages your customers are visiting most often, as well as many other statistics.
Your specific niche web hosting solution will run you from:
- $10 or $20
- to the more expensive $50.00 per month.
While low quality hosting will only run You about $120.00 a year remember, more often then not, You get what You pay for. Having said that Danny and Monty Suggest that You should plan to pay between $300 and $500 per year to your web host provider.
That $300.00 to $500.00 a year is only for Web Host services. Nothing more, nothing less. Period!
What To Look For In A Web Host Provider
Always avoid free or very inexpensive web host providers, because you may experience bouts of server downtimes and you are likely to have significant limitations in storage, number of email addresses, FTP upload etc.
Be sure your web hosts can accommodate:
- e-Commerce and Storefronts;
- Wireless Capability;
- Blogs;
- Forums;
- Chats;
- Online Interactive Helps and;
- Anything Else You Want To Add Onto Your Site, That Is, Within Reason.
Estimate what your growth needs are and ensure that this web host can serve you as you grow. The last thing you want to do is change host mid way unless you absolutely have to do so.
Check your bandwidth capability to be sure that, if your website traffic grows rapidly, your customers will not have to wait to download or view information.
Three things to look for from Web Hosts are:
1. Excellent Customer Support: Your hosting provider should be there for you 24/7 online email support that allows You quick access to the technicians you need to solve your problem. Ask them how long it takes for them to typically respond to your problem.
2. A Sound Infrastructure: Check whether they offer a multi-homed network powered by multiple bandwidth providers to ensure redundancy. Some offer a 100% guarantee on its network availability or network uptime.
3. Financial Stability: If you're running very critical operations, you can't afford to be with a hosting company that may not be in business in a few months.
Be sure your web hosts can accommodate e-commerce and storefronts, wireless capability, blogs, forums, chats, online interactive helps and anything else you want to add onto your site....
The Following Information Is Valuable and It Is Rather In-Depth. So...
To Aid Your Searching Please Use This Web Hosting Solutions Index:
Influence Your Click Popularity...
Sharing Domains or IP Addresses...
You Need Your Own Domain Name...
Shorter Domain Names Are Better...
Choosing A Web Host...
Little Known Facts...
Shared IP Hosting...
Downtime...
Look for High Connection Speed...
No Logs...
Other Features To Look For...
Dynamic URL's...
Re-Direct Pages...
Image Maps Without Alt Text...
I-Frames ...
Tables...
Link Spamming...
Influence Your Click Popularity...
How can you influence click popularity then? By putting some work into your page title and description Meta tag. These are the main factors influencing people's decision to click your link. High quality content will make visitors stay at your search engine optimized web site, and will stop them from quickly returning to the search engine.
Domain name registration is one of the most important things to consider when you are designing a site for high search engine placement. Here are some dos and don’ts of domain name registration.
Some Webmasters use shared domains or sub-domains available for free from popular Web hosting services, or some kind of free domain name redirect service. This might be cheap, but if you want a good search engine placement, it's not an option.
Some search engines do ban free Web hosts because search engine spammers frequently use them for hosting duplicate sites (mirrors) and doorway pages.
Sharing Domains or IP Addresses...
Sharing Domains or IP Addresses with spammers can get your search engine position penalized or your entire site banned.
Listen, this is Important:
"You could wind up being penalized or excluded simply because the underlying IP address for that service is the same for all the virtual domains it includes."
Most search engines limit the number of submissions or number of listings for each domain. This will make it very hard to get your site indexed. Other sites on the same domain might already take all the available spots.
If you do manage to get your site indexed, the search engine will have a hard time finding the “theme” for your site if you are sharing a domain with other sites on many different subjects. Pages are no longer ranked one by one; all content within the domain is considered.
You Need Your Own Domain Name...
Without your own domain, you will be forced to start working from scratch again if the host goes out of business or if he decides to change your URL. Many Webmasters have lost their search engine positions, link popularity and Web traffic because of this.
Keywords in the domain name are crucial. It makes sense to put your primary keywords into your domain name.
Separate multiple keywords like my-primarykeyword-phrase.com instead of typing it all in one word: myprimarykeywordphrase.com. This will make it possible for the search engines to understand your keyword phrases correctly.
Do not use more then two dashers, as the algorithms are very sophisticated these days. They will mark your site domain name as spam and You could even be de-index by the big search engines.
Shorter Domain Names Are Better...
Keep in mind that Yahoo and some other search engines reject domain submissions with URL's in excess of 54 characters. You would be wise to stay under the 55 character limit when choosing a domain name.
Directories like Yahoo, LookSmart and ODP will not look for keywords in the text of your page, and editors will often edit keywords out of your title and description. This leaves your internet domain name as the single most important place to put keywords for your site.
Again, too many dashes in a domain name might trigger the spam filters of some search engines.
Yet another benefit of keyword rich domain names is in reciprocal linking. If the domain name keywords appear within the text of incoming links, you will get a major boost in ranking, especially in Google.
Choosing a Web Host Provider...
Choosing a Web host provider for your site is no small decision. When you make a choice of a Web page host, you are actually placing your Internet business in the hands of your Web host provider. Choosing the wrong Web page hosting plan can cause permanent damage to your search engine placement.
Selecting a Web page host is like renting an office. You want to get it right the first time. It is always possible to move somewhere else, but it's no easy task to move your entire business - not to mention the damage that already could be caused by then.
Little Known Facts...
We are going to look at some little known facts about Web page hosting and how it can effect your search engine placement.
Did you submit your site over and over again without ever getting it indexed in the search engines? Or was your site indexed, but is nowhere to be found when you type your search terms into the engines? Your Web host provider might be the cause of that.
Listen, this is Important:
Danny and Monty Suggest, "If being found via search engines is important to your business, (For most of Us this is True), be very careful about where you have your web pages hosted. If the web host provider also hosts spammers and pornographers, you could wind up being penalized or excluded from the major search engines."
Today, this is a common practice causing many sites to lose their rank. Choosing the right web hosts for your Web hosting needs is of great importance if you really care about your search engine position.
A Short List Of What You Must Watch Out For:
Shared IP Hosting...
Many Web hosting services do not give out unique IP addresses to customers. The name-based system of virtual Web hosting allows multiple domains to be hosted by a single IP. This means several hundred domain names could all be using the same IP address. Are you sharing an IP address with people you don't even know?
If someone else, who is hosted on the same server as your site, gets banned on a search engine, then your Web site will be caught and banned as well. This happens on a regular basis causing serious problems for those who are affected.
Downtime...
If your Web host provider cannot keep servers up and running 24/7, people will not be able to find your site. The search engine spiders won't find it either. They will assume your site is gone and remove it from the search engine index. You will have to resubmit and wait weeks or months for the spider to re-index your site. If your site already is indexed and ranking well, it might lose its position altogether.
No matter what web host provider you use, it is highly recommended that you sign up for a free site monitoring service like SiteUpTime.com. This guarantees that you're alerted within minutes when your site goes down. This enables you to get to work immediately to solve the problem and dramatically increase the time your site is up and running.
The speed and reliability of your Web host provider will depend on several factors.
Look for High Connection Speed...
A T3 connection (or better) close to a primary Internet backbone
Safeguards against systems, network or power failure
Several connections to the Internet (in case one goes down)
Backup power supplies and "Uptime guarantee" with at least 95% uptime.
No Logs...
Access to raw web log files is one feature often missing with low quality Web hosting services. Some Web host providers provide logs, but do not include referrer information. Others delete logs frequently, making it impossible to use them effectively. Make sure your Web hosting service gives you access to raw server logs, preferably in "Extended Common Log File Format", a standard that can be understood by most log analyzers.
The server logs will give you some valuable information for your search engine optimization work, including what search engines people are using to find your site, exactly which keywords they type into the search box, and when the search engine spiders visit your site. This is crucial information. You cannot properly optimize your site without it.
Other Features To Look For...
Other features include daily back up of your data, high bandwidth and, of course, the quality of their support services. In addition, you must consider the features offered by the Web page host. Some features to consider are:
- The space available for your site;
- Sub-domain availability;
- Monthly transfer limits;
- POP mail server availability;
- Support for CGI, SSI, Perl, databases and FrontPage 2000 extensions;
- Secure server access (SSL);
- Anonymous FTP and ;
- Shopping Cart Software;
- MySQL Databases;
- Fantistico;
- C-Panel;
Dynamic URL's...
Several pages in e-commerce and other functional sites are generated dynamically and have? or & sign in their dynamic URL's. These signs separate the CGI variables. While Google will crawl these pages, many other engines will not. One inconvenient solution is to develop static equivalent of the dynamic pages and have them on your site. Another way to avoid such dynamic URL's is to rewrite these URL's using a syntax that is accepted by the crawler and also understood as equivalent to the dynamic URL by the application server. The Amazon site shows dynamic URL's in such syntax. If you are using Apache web server, you can use Apache rewrite rules to enable this conversion.
Re-Direct Pages...
Sometimes pages have a Meta refresh tag that redirects any visitor automatically to another page. Some search engines refuse to index a page that has a high refresh rate. When in doubt Check!
Image Maps Without Alt Text...
Avoid image maps without text or with links. Image maps should have alt text (as also required under the American Disabilities Act, for public website's) and the home page should not have images as links. Instead HTML links should be used. This is because search engines would not read image links and the linked pages may not get crawled.
I-Frames ...
There are some engines whose spiders won’t work with frames on your site. A web page that is built using frames is actually a combination of content from separate “pages” that have been blended into a single page through a ‘frameset’ instruction page. The frameset page does not have any content or links that would have promoted spidering. The frameset page could block the spider’s movement. The workaround is by placing a summary of the page content and relevant description in the frameset page and also by placing a link to the home page on it.
Tables...
When you use tables on the key pages and if some columns have descriptions while others have numbers, it is possible that this may push your keywords down the page. Search engines break up the table and read them for the content the columns have. The first column is read first, then the next and so on. Thus if the first column had numbers, and the next one had useful descriptions, the positioning of these descriptions will suffer. The strategy is to avoid using such tables near the top of the key pages. Large sections of Javascript's also will have the same effect on the search engines. The HTML part will be pushed down. Thus again, place your long Javascript's lower down on key pages.
Using <div> tags is the most current html standard practice today and greatly improves page load times and organic search engine results page - Organic SERP - placement of Your site.
Link spamming...
Realizing the importance of links and link analysis in search engine results, several link farms and Free for All sites have appeared that offer to provide links to your site. This is also referred to as link spamming. Most search engines are smarter to this obvious tactic and know how to spot this. Such link farms, as they are known, do not provide either:
- link quality or
- link context, the main two factors that are important in link analysis.
Because of this the correct Elite SEO Hosting strategy is to avoid link spamming and not get carried away by what seems to be too simple a solution.
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Why Should I Trust You?
Danny and Monty started in 2008 with a simple desire to get some extra spending cash from “The Auction” site on the net. It sounded like an easy fun time for all.
Soon we set out on our 7 year plan to build a Real Home Based Internet Business on the web and show other’s “How To”.
After tens of thousands of dollars invested in creating the required infrastructure necessary for success in Internet Marketing, thousands and thousands of hours happily given learning all the required skill sets for success, we have now developed a very steep learning curve for all things Internet Marketing related.
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