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Every enterprise or website business owner wants to increase their business in one way or the other. With the onslaught of the internet entering our world, ecommerce has now flourished and will continue to do so. Traditional brick and mortar businesses are now investing money into their websites to sell and promote their stock and or services. This investment is all aimed at increasing their brand awareness amongst their customers. In fact, small businesses can now compete effectively and efficently against the big corporations and more importantly get their message out.

It is one thing to have a good website that is selling your widgets, however, you need a reliable web hosting comany to ensure that your website is live on the internet. There are literally thousands of web hosting providers that are available in the market today.

The question remains  of how to choose a good web hosting provider for your website. Read the rest of this entry »

SEO Professionals to assist you in improving your Website Rankings

A number of our Hosting Customers have contacted us of late regarding emails they have received from at least two companies apparently located in China and Hong Kong, urging Our Hosting Customers to register their exisitng Domains into the Asian equivilent. We advised our customers, not to respond to the emails and under any circumstances, do not click on any of the links.

At the same time auDA had also received questions from concerned Domain Name owners and as a result, auDA sent the following email to Domain Name Registrants,  which we include in it’s entirety:

Misleading unsolicited emails from Asian domain name companies

30/Apr/2009

auDA is aware that at least two companies apparently based in China and Hong Kong have been sending unsolicited emails to people with .au domain names, attempting to mislead them into registering their name in a number of Asian domain spaces.

Examples include: Read the rest of this entry »

SEO Professionals to assist you in improving your Website Rankings

We often get asked what are the best things to do to get a higher ranking on Google, Yahoo or MSN for that fact.  We don’t believe that there is just 1 thing to do to achieve a higher ranking, but a combination of a lot of little things.

The Search Engines use a complex range of algorithms to achieve the findings that they have and rightly so, they are very protective and cautious in regards to the integrity of those findings and the algorithms that are used. With that in mind, it would be then fair to suggest that they have the right to constantly change, alter, amend or rectify the code at any given time, to prevent spammers and people with unethical motives from dominating the search results.

In our experience, we have found that by utilising the guidelines, albeit very loose, and making your website, a website of worth and value, will over time ensure you of the high rankings you desperately seek. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Analytics and monitoring your website statistics

It never ceases to amaze us how, when, where and why our website visitors find us. We constantly track, monitor and record all avenues and are constantly surprised yet delighted on how they do find us and in particular our Sub Domain pages.

One of the many monitoring tools that we use is Google Analytics. We have heard all of the conspriacy stories about Google, however, love them or hate them, they do provide outstanding data about your website. Google understands the importance of monitoring and benchmarking your website and your website visitors and they do not leave anything to chance, so would should you.

A brief sample on some of the keywords and or phrases used to locate Our Sub Domain Pages: Read the rest of this entry »

SEO Tools to assist you in improving your website

Have you ever sat down and truly considered just what is your website’s main purpose and what you want your website to accomplish for you?

Does your website sell a product? If it does, it has been designed with a decisive purpose. It will

• Present your product/s in the best possible light.
• Invite visitors to join your mailing list or newsletter.
• Answer all potential questions about the product.
• Provide details about shipping, returns and payment options.
• Provide a clear pathway to purchase.
• Make the sales process as simple as possible for the buyer.
• Thank the customer for their purchase.
• Even upsell with another offer. Read the rest of this entry »

Free SEO Tools to assist you in improving your website

Owing to a limited amount of time available to me this afternoon, I will only list the Top SEO Tips for your consideration. When time permits, I will come back and expand upon the list and provide reasons for them. This is simply because, I have spoken with 4 Customers today and each conversation and response has gone along the same lines.

So here they are and in no particualr order of importance:

Website Title – Relevant Title Tag for that Page
Tags – Correct use of H1, H2, H3 and of course Alt or Alternate Tags
Relevant Original Content on each page – Keyword rich – 1 subject (Ideally) per page
Incoming Links -  Incoming Links from Authority Websites
Internal Links – Linking to pages deeper within your website
Keyword Density- Correct keyword ratio per page is extremely vital. DO NOT KEYWORD STUFF IT.
Sitemap – Helps to direct Search Engines and Visitors to all of your website.
Meta Tags – Do not overlook this often overlooked component. Read the rest of this entry »

Free SEO Tools to assist you in improving your website

Please find information on another Free SEO Tool by Hosting Impact. This time it is the Alexa Traffic Rank Tool.

Click on the link for  Alexa Traffic Rank Free SEO Tool

What is Alexa Traffic Rank Tool?

This Free Tool allows you to view and compare Alexa Traffic charts. You can select a data type from Reach, Rank and Page Views.

What is Traffic Rank?
The traffic rank is based on historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). Read the rest of this entry »

Helping You To Make Money Online

Twitter has come a long way in such a short space of time. Why one program becomes a huge success compared to others, who knows, however, what we do know is that Twitter, it’s followers and Apps developers have contributed largely to it’s success.

There are literally 100’s of worthy Twitter applications and we have only named a dozen here and in no particular order.

Tweetwasters – As the name suggests, it shows you how much time you have wasted / invested in Twitter.

Twittervision – A visual look of tweets around the world.

Twitter Search – See what’s happening right now.

Tweetscan – Tweet for a particular subject or heading for example: SEO, Golf, Dancing etc. A great way to focus on a particular group of Twitters.

Mr Tweet – Mr. Tweet looks through your extended network to assist you in building effective relationships on Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »

Free SEO Tools to assist you in improving your website

Congratulations, you took the first step, in building your website and promoting your products and services. Where are your website visitors and more importantly, where are the sales. It has often been said that first
impressions are the most important, so it is best to make the best impression that you can, because there won’t be a second one.

It is estimated that you have approximately 45 seconds to make a good first impression. Your website visitors will judge your site in that short space of time. They will judge it on colour, load time, layout and professionalism.

Prior to unleashing your website onto the unsuspecting masses, ask for unbiased, brutally honest opinions from family, friends and business associates. Listen to their feedback, step aside and look at it from a customers point of view.

Does it pass the test of professionalism? Does it truly represent you, your business, your products and services in a professional light. Are your graphics of a high quality ? Is the information written in such a way that is easy to understand. Read the rest of this entry »

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