Monday, September 14, 2009

Website Hosting Tip #1 -- FREE Website Hosting?

Website hosting is the process in which companies use supercomputers to upload your website (HTML files) to the internet.
Many companies offer a wide range of hosting plans and special features to attract people trying to upload their website. As a customer of their services, you should take some time to research different hosting plans.

FREE Website Hosting

When deciding to host your website the idea of “FREE Website Hosting” sounds very appealing. However, despite the label of “free,” there can be a tremendous cost.

The Cost of FREE Website Hosting

  1. Limited Space
    Many free website hosting companies limit the amount of information a webmaster – (the person in charge of the website) can upload. With limited space, dynamic content such as videos, music, pictures, and/or a CSS Style sheet; which produces returning visitors and builds creditability (see Website Design Tip 5) is limited. This limited dynamic content makes your business look unprofessional or your organization unappealing.

  2. Advertisement Distraction
    Many free website hosting services place their affiliate and advertisements across your site. Since webmasters don’t control the ad placements, a company could place an ad over an important text paragraph or image advertisement.

  3. Not Search Engine Searchable
    The primary reason for internet marketing is to be listed on search engines so that potential customers will be able to find your services. With many free website hosting companies; especially website hosters that make your site a sub-domain:

Such as:
www.joesicecream.freewebhost.com

It is highly unlikely that your site will be indexed on notable search engines.

Some website hosting services that use a sub-domains can be found using popular search engines if they are a popular service provider (such as social network ning – (ning.com) or if the website files have dynamic content (videos, pictures, valuable text, etc.). Search engines like Google sometimes like to play favorites with their own products and enable blogspot blogs on their search engine results.



Using the Black Business Bureau sub-domain service, you can successfully get your website on popular search engines because we customize and manually upload websites and website file folders given to us by our customers.




Tip #5 -- Creating Content for Your Website

Creating valuable website content is very important for both new and existing websites, regardless of the purpose of your website. Creating useful articles and providing unique information to visitors is essential when trying to get your site noticed and indexed on search engines. It is important to note, if your site is an ecommerce store, unless your site is a mega retailer such as ebay.com or amazon.com, search engine bots will ignore your store. By developing content, search engine users will be able to find your store by searching keywords pertaining to content.

Many professional website developers would recommend that before a webmaster (the person that creates and/or manages the website) attempts to market their website, they should create content surrounding the information they will place on their website.


For Example:

If you own a hair care business and you wish to sell your hair care productions online; first create a few useful articles about hair care. Describe

1. What hair care products should be used based on hair type

2. The use of water vs oil based conditioners

3. Steps to maintaining healthy hair , etc…


By creating valuable content, your site or store not only builds traffic and returning visitors, but it also builds credibility. As visitors can see that they can trust your information, they will also feel safe in trusting your products.

Tip #4 --Learning Basic HTML Coding

Due to Blogger Blog Regulations and limitations we cannot post tip #4. Please see: