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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 »

Creating Your Website Presence

Getting traffic or visitors to your web site is one thing, however, you need to understand how they got there in the first and without analyzing your traffic, you wont be able to improve upon the overall results.

Within your Hosting Control Panel, there should be a Web Stats Programme such as Webalizer. Web Stat Programmes use various terms to describe web site traffic and it’s visitors.  It is important to understand what the terms are and how they relate to your website in particular.

Visits – these are requests made by a specific user to the website during a specific period of time, normally 24 hours.  Users are identified by cookies, username or hostnames/ip addresses.

Hit – this is a request to the server for a file not a page. Your page can be made up of different files, such as graphic files, audio files or javascript files etc, resulting in a number of hits for that page. Each of these requests is called a hit.

Counting hits is not the same as tracking pageviews. It takes multiple hits to view a page. You may at times see website owners sprouting that they receive 1 000 000 hits to their website, so come and advertrise on our site. Hits are not the same as individual users and a site receiving 1 000 000 hits is certainly not receiving 1 000 000 unique visitors.

Pageview / Impressions – this is the number of times a page is accessed completely.

Unique View – A page view by a unique person within a 24 hour period.

Referrer – A page that links to your site. By looking at your referrers will tell you who’s linked to your website or more importantly what page are they linking to. This is of particular value, because you can determine where your search engine traffic is originating.

User Agent – This refers to the software used to access your site.  Sometimes known as a “browser” or “client”, the term user agent can describe a PHP script, a browser like Internet Explorer, or a search engine spider like GoogleBot.

We trust you have found this of benefit and should you require additional information or assistance please do not hesitate to contact us accordingly.

Until Next Time …
Happy Blogging

SEO Steve
Hosting Impact – Australian Small Business Hosting

Australian Website Design Professionals

After you have your website designed and developed, one of the next most important considerations should be, “Who Will Host Your Website ?”

There are numerous points to consider when selecting a suitably qualified web host to host your website.

In no particualr order are a number to consider:

The Company 
Their background
Check their references
How many customers do they serve?
What is their uptime or Uptime percentage ?
What are there charges ?
Do they charge set up fees ?
Do they offer Customer Support ? 
Can you upgrade free of charge?

Web hosting services and prices can vary and when choosing your web host, please ensure that you are receiving exactly what you paid for.  All to often, Hosting Impact hears horror stories from new customers, about this host and that host. Bottom line, cheap hosting can, not always, but can cost you more. 

Additional things to consider:

 Use your own domain name (www.yourname.com) – not a sub domain 
 Your own POP email account – name@yourdomain.com 
 Ability to access and upload your website. 
 Offer daily server backup
 Easy access to your log files
 Statistics on visits to your website

Hosting Impact is an Australian Based Professional Web Hosting Company and offers various packages for personal, Business or Commercial websites.