Archive for May, 2009

How often do you back up your website?

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 29/05/2009
How often do you back up your website?

We have updated our back up facility within eXtend so that larger sites can now backup their sites quickly and with the minimum of fuss. We would strongly recommend backing up your site at least once a week to ensure you are not susceptible to any data loss. Using eXtend to back up your site [...]

Every Day Low Prices Vs Promotional Prices

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 26/05/2009
Every Day Low Prices Vs Promotional Prices

As any good marketer should I keep a close eye on what our competitors are doing with regards to products, pricing and promotion and after nearly 4 years working within web hosting I have noticed that many web hosts are reaching a point where the current over reliance on promotional prices to cover up the [...]

Setting up your blog and getting people to read it

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 21/05/2009
Setting up your blog and getting people to read it

Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/267060150/ The value of a blog to any website, be it business or personal is well documented so we won’t cover them again here, but all over the internet you will find examples of blogs driving a site’s business success (www.seomoz.org/blog) as a resource for customers (www.heartinternet.co.uk/blog), as a standalone revenue driver in [...]

Interview with JavaScriptKit.com’s George Chiang

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 19/05/2009
Interview with JavaScriptKit.com’s George Chiang

We had a chat with George Chiang creator of www.javascriptkit.com… Could you provide a bit of information about yourself and javascriptkit.com? I started becoming interested in web design and JavaScript while I was in college studying Computer Science. At that time I had just put up my own little site on Geocities for fun, and [...]

Web infection targeting website’s FTP details

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 15/05/2009
Web infection targeting website’s FTP details

News that a compromise targeting FTP details stored on computers has been published on The Register with further details found on ScanSafe’s blog. Named ‘Gumblar’, computers that are infected have their Google search results replaced with links that point to malicious or fraudulent websites. The malware also goes through the computer’s local files looking for [...]

Reseller Windows hosting is now free

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 13/05/2009
Reseller Windows hosting is now free

To get right to the point, if you are one of our resellers you can now add Windows hosting accounts to your packages for free (it was £10 per year).  So where does that leave us compared to Fasthosts and WebFusion I hear you ask? In a pretty good place to be honest… Windows hosting [...]

5 questions to ask a paid search agency/ consultant

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 11/05/2009
5 questions to ask a paid search agency/ consultant

According to New Media Age (www.nma.co.uk)… “More than half of companies (55%) intend to increase natural search budgets and just under half (45%) will up paid search investment this year as they look for measurable ROI in difficult economic times.” One of the biggest USPs Paid search has always had over TV, radio, print and [...]

Sell advertising space on your Twitter profile

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 05/05/2009
Sell advertising space on your Twitter profile

Never an industry to take more than blink of an eye to spot an opportunity to make money online marketing has two new acronyms to add to the list; PPT (Pay Per Tweet) and CPT (Cost Per Tweet). (You can find a great set of marketing acronyms at marketingterms.com) Brand new advertising services such as [...]

Distributing press releases yourself

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 01/05/2009
Distributing press releases yourself

Online press releases are a great way to generate incoming links, gain free exposure and associate yourself with authoritative sites. If you have written a press release and you don’t want to use a press release distribution service you can build your own contact list in not much time and probably less effort than you [...]