Archive for November, 2009

Dominating your SERP brand space

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 11/11/2009
Dominating your SERP brand space

Whenever someone searches for your brand name using a search engine, they are also being shown 9 organic results on the search engine results page (SERP) that may not be your site and maybe even another 9 paid results for competitors bidding on your brand name, which means you could be competing with a total of 18 other results that aren’t your site!

What do you get with your web hosting?

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 11/11/2009
What do you get with your web hosting?

If you’ve been looking around at different web hosting companies you’ll have across many different packages offering different features. What do they all mean though, and what features have you been offered? Here are some of the different options with hosting packages and what they actually mean. How many of these are offered by the web hosting companies that you’ve looked at?

Back up your website & database

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 09/11/2009
Back up your website & database

Backing up your website is a lot like buying insurance, you know you should but it’s one of those things you put off because nothing has happened yet which surely means you don’t need it. But on one of those rare times when your site has a critical failure and loses some or all of your data, you’ll soon wish you had!

Top 7 websites to teach yourself SEO

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 05/11/2009
Top 7 websites to teach yourself SEO

When I first got into online marketing many moons ago, my main focus was on paid search (Google AdWords et al) and my job revolved around creating campaigns, bids, clicks, conversions etc however, although it wasn’t part of my job at that time, I found SEO equally as interesting and wanted to learn more. Without any on the job experiences to learn from I went looking online for websites that would help me, and they did. Since then SEO has become part of my job in a couple of positions and I can honestly say the following websites were a big reason why I knew enough about the subject to be able to work in that field.

To go dedicated or not to go dedicated?

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 05/11/2009
To go dedicated or not to go dedicated?

The decision to choose a dedicated server is one that most website managers will have to make at some point in their careers when they see their website traffic or the complexity of their site increase . A dedicated server brings with it the level of freedom that you don’t get with any other website hosting option, offering you unlimited bandwidth, endless options for customisation and the chance to use it as you see fit. With a dedicated server you’re not sharing the server with any other websites. It’s your server to use as you see fit and to install whatever software, applications and macros that you need.

9 great iPhone apps to manage your website on the go

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 02/11/2009
9 great iPhone apps to manage your website on the go

Whatever your thoughts about the iPhone there is no denying it represents a step change in the way we access data and spend our time on the move and thanks mainly to the ever growing app store we have immediate access to all aspects of our digital life. The success of the app store is well documented with over 85,000 apps to choose from, 2 billion downloads, over 6.3 million apps downloaded every day, and the iPhone OS is now the 4th most used OS. Our recently launched Heart Internet iPhone control panel based on customer feedback and demand is testament to the increasing importance of mobile internet access and business use.

Reseller hosting to manage your clients

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 02/11/2009
Reseller hosting to manage your clients

Reseller hosting is one of the most cost effective methods of hosting websites for your clients, and allows you turn your web hosting into a profitable side of your business. Many web designers, web developers and design agencies look to reseller hosting to manage the hosting accounts for their clients’ websites because it gives them the flexibility they need, coupled with the features that they need, to host all of their clients’ websites on one hosting package.

30% off uk.com domain names

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 02/11/2009
30% off uk.com domain names

Save a massive 30% on all uk.com, uk.net, gb.net, gb.com and eu.com domain names. Normally retailing at £25 a year you now get yours for just £17.50 per year (min 2 years registration).