Best Web Host Review 2008

When designing a website, take it page by page. More is not always better, the goals is to keep potential customers on your site as long as possible. The longer someone stays on your website the more likely they are to purchase your product.

The single most viewed area of your website will always be the upper left hand corner. Since most people around the globe read from left to right, top to bottom it stands to reason that your upper left corner will be the most viewed part of your website, or of a specific page.

A few simple things you should always include in your website are…

1. Contact Us page, be it form or simple email client calling script. Must have it.
2. Site Map. Google and Yahoo both love sitemaps, as it makes there crawl of your site faster.
3. Meta Data. If you don’t have Meta Data on the pages of your website, you won’t get traffic.

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“Go ahead, punk, make my day”
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“Do I need a Dedicated IP address for my website?”

A dedicated IP address allows you to make your website secure with an SSL certificate, and it assures that the only Website(s) found at that IP address will be yours, which can help with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Most Independent credit card companies require a dedicated IP address in order for you to use there services.

So to answer the question for you…

1. Will your Website accept Credit Cards? If yes, then you more than likely need one.
2. Does your Website require an SSL certificate? If yes, then you need one, as Shared certificates are not secure enough to protect your information.
3. Are you going to be collecting private information from your customers outside of the normal name/email forms? If yes, then its advisable that you get an SSL certificate, and thus need a dedicated IP address.

Hope that helps, post any questions you may have.

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“What sort of Web Hosting is good for me?”

There are Generally 3 server types, and 2 platforms that you can host on.

Server types: Shared/ Virtual Private Server (VPS/VDS)/ Dedicated Server

Platform: Windows / Linux

To find the one that is right for you, you will need some information.

1. Are you, or your designer coding the Website in asp.net?

2. Are you, or your designer going to use an MS SQL database or My SQL?

3. Do you or your Designer Need root access to install special programs/applications?

3a. How technically savvy are you or your designer?

4. How many Visitors do you expect to get?

Answer’s:

1. If you or your Designer are going to use asp.net then you will need a Windows platform, as Unix Web Hosting cannot run .net programming.

2. If need MS SQL then you will need a Windows Platform. If your going without a database or are going to use My SQL most hosting companies allow this on both platforms.

3. If you need Root access to the Server, you will need (in most cases) a VPS or Dedicated Server. Now there are some hosting companies that will give you shell access on a shared web hosting server, so its very important that you ask or verify that you have shell access. Ask if they offer this on there shared platform first, you may be able to save a few bucks if they do.

3a. If you are uncomfortable with code, then you do not belong on a VPS Web Hosting or Dedicated Server. Even if you are comfortable with code, its more than likely that you will not be successful with the shell, as this requires server specific knowledge that most web site owners simply do not have. Don’t worry, 99 times out of a hundred a VPS or Dedicated server isn’t required to run a successful site.

4. If you are a brand new website owner, or have less than 5,000 visitors a month, then a shared web hosting platform should suffice. If you have more than 5,000 visitors a month, most shared web hosting servers begin to slow your website down, or shut you off all together and a VPS is more likely a better choice. If you have a couple thousand page website, are planning on a full paid search engine optimization program, require your own programs to run on the server, are running an online gaming site then you more than likely will need at least a VPS and a Dedicated Server is recommended.

Now if none of the above applies to you, or your just plain brand new to web hosting, then you will want a Shared Linux web hosting server. Which is good news, as this is the lowest cost / Cheapest Web Hosting available. 80% of all websites are run on a linux/Unix server. You don’t need to have Linux/Unix, as this only pertains to your website, and your home computer has nothing to do with what we are talking about.

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WM Shawn

“What are Back Links?”

Back Links are the most verifiable format google has to determine your site is relevant. The more relevant website’s that are linked to yours, the more Back links you have and thus the better your page ranking will be. We give you some free Back links to help get you starter, these are FREE directory back links and as such are more than likely not rated as highly as a Back link from a related Web site. These are Back links that are at least a 2 Page ranking with google, thus insuring that they will help with seo.

Do you want a high page ranking? Do you want lots of indexed pages with google? Then keep the flash to a minimum. Google cannot index a flash web design, and as a result they cannot see what your Flash content is about. Never have an all flash home page!

If you want to know what Content google can see…
1. Go to your website
2. Right click on your website
3. choose “view page source”
4. find the body tag.
5. Everything between the body tags will be the content of your site. The most text/keywords you have here, the more google has to index.

Exception:
Scripting languages, such as PHP, Java, etc.

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WM Shawn