Are you "Green" Hosting?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Did you know that the average server produces the same emissions as a 15 miles per gallon SUV?

So we asked ourselves, “What can we do to be part of the climate change solution?” We took steps to minimize our environmental impact at the office, but we weren’t satisfied.

So we found a professional hosting partner who cares as much about the environment as we do!

All of our hosting servers are now 130% wind powered! That’s right! 130%!

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Tags: climate change, green hosting, hosting
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Search Engine Optimization Results Take Time

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Okay, so now you have your website up and running. You have submitted your website details to as many appropriate search engines as possible. Now what?

You have to get visitors or “traffic” to your site but why can’t people find you when they do a search?

How long will it be before a search engine “robot” or “spider” comes snooping around your site and starts to index your pages? Well, that depends …

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Tags: search engine ranking, SEM, SEO
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Important Pages to include on Your Website

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Have you ever wondered if your website contains the most essential pages? What about other “nice to have” pages or functionality?  Here’s a list of what we believe your website should have.

Every good website starts with a plan much the same way as a book does.  The “chapters” in your book then become your individual “top level” web pages. So before you start thinking about what to write on your website, it is important that you create a plan, which outlines what each page will contain. Create an outline of your chapters and note exactly what you want on each page so that you don’t repeat yourself or forget a piece of important information like your phone number!

The most common pages on professional websites include:

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Some Important Rules in Website Design

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Your website is where your online business resides — it’s like the head office of an offline company. So it is equally important to continuity of corporate image and to ensure that good design principles and marketing techniques are applied to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and “sells” to as many people as possible. Extra attention should be paid to every tiny detail to make sure your website performs optimally to serve its purpose.

Here are important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

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