05
Aug
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There’s always problem with finding a hosting. My friend who run a business offline and wanted to have an online e-commerce, he came to me and ask about hosting. I can’t really answer him though, because it’s subjective, but advice is able though. Me as one, who doesn’t really need support most of my time. Some downtime is fine, as long as it doesn’t affect my earning 
Anyway, the best way to look for one, these are my-list 
1, Your needs
What do you need when you host your website. What is the requirement, large space? Large bandwidth? Also, take account that hosting company is also one of the factor for those, each hosting company don’t just simply host website, some have limited access on script and etc. At the end of the day, you need to plan what you want to do with your web.
2, Reliability and speed
Many hosting company offer you a 99.99% uptime, but it’s not accurate. Don’t think too much about this kinda uptime. However, in order to make sure about their uptime, your monitor is important, try to get some free uptime monitor on the web. Monitor them for a month and make decision, don’t rush. Speed is also a factor for a web. Visitors don’t have patience like you do. There’s a lot of site that offer free bandwidth or speed test on web as well, google them and you’ll get a tons of it. Use them as you use for monitoring the host company as well.
3, Technical support
Test them! This is what I did all the time. Keep asking them question before you buy the host, keep making them busy, and see what they react on you. Many hosting company, some even famous one, run by a bunch of friends only. So they do it for their own, they don’t do it to meet end month pay cheque. Ask them some dump question, and if their site are down, ask them for explanation, even if you’re not their customer.
I’ve been with this hosting company Galaxy Webhosting. It run by bunch of friend or maybe just one man. It’s fine for me so far, it’s been the 3rd or 4th years I’m hosting with him/them. But one thing I don’t have from the list though, technical support! Whenever there’s a downtime, he/they don’t give explanation, no email replied, no support ticket reply as well. That’s why I said, even if you’re not their customer, ask them if you see their site is down! If some perfectionist person hosting with the same hosting company as me, I’m sure acne treatments will be what he needed now. I’m even thinking I’m getting some blood pressure.
04
Aug
So, you created a site/blog. You wanted to give your visitors an information about you or your product. Everybody doing the same thing, it’s like buying a PC, you gotta choose from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Lenovo and all the etc. That’s why, your site/blog have to be stand out from the crowd, like Dell did recently. In order to make your site/blog to stand out, color is the main factor, then only come to navigation, lastly, the design (Background? Icons? Graphic wise?). So here are my list again 
1, Stunning main page.
Well, if you have a site/blog without an introduction page, worry no more, header it is. First impression is important, that’s also the reason why I changed the whole structure, design and color of this blog, as I’m changing the content as well. If it’s about Halloween invitations, let it be wild, but remember a punkin. You need to make someone like your whole site/blog art eventually the content become something interesting if there’s a twist.
2, Inviting colors.
Now, I’m not talking about full of color. You need to learn how to combine color. Advise, try not to follow the art class theory, it just not work. However, colors also define a branding imagine of a site/blog. For example, black, you’ll think about ghost, scary and etc. Although this may seems to be too surface, but it does count.
3, Design, design and design.
It doesn’t need to be full of graphics and icons. Some webmasters like to put lots of clipart they found online and place them all over the site. What I’m saying is a proper design. One header, one content side, one side navigation and one footer, job done! From these structures, try to implement something eyes candy. Catch all the attention of the visitor.
4, Content it is.
Well, I have to be honest. I like humor content. My observation on sites and blogs around the internet, only humor has the traffic. Don’t think so? Try yourself then. You have to know how to deliver an information by humor. I’m not saying those formal content is dull, but just for the sack of people coming back again, since you might update them after sometimes.
Like always, those are just my point of view. However, if you want to gain more traffic on your site, I think you should always check if there’s any enhancement that you can do on the site/blog (Picture maybe?). Done my writing today! See you again soon 
03
Aug
Meta Tags are HTML tags that provide information to the search engines about your site. Search engines have recognized that site owners to use this resource to control their positioning and descriptions in search engine results. You have created your web pages and have now identified your keywords. You can create your meta tag easily using - Meta Tag Generator.
As you see from the above screen shot, google actually search the meta tag that content the keyword “OS Ground”. Search engines are like memory cards, they store all the meta tag of all sites in their memory. Meta tags are great significance as they boost the overall performance of the site. They are useful in enhancing the placement of your site in various Search engines such as Yahoo, Google, and MSN thereby increasing the traffic to your site. But of course it has to depend on your keyword as well.
02
Aug
There are many techniques to increasing traffic to your blog. Among them are search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Many SEO strategies that you will find on the internet are severely outdated and by using them, you will actually be hurting your search engine ranking instead of helping it. There are only a few left which is still working well for most websites and blogs. Keywords and Link popularity. Believe it or not, social bookmarking sites were created and getting famous one by one is all because of both of them. Think it’s not working? Think again.
Things about Keyword Content. When the concept of keyword content first came out, most web owners stuffed their web pages with keywords and it worked. It was long ago though, unlike bloggers today that write so many paid post with keyword like moth traps or whatsoever. These keywords will only help the site that linked to the keyword, but for your blog, it’s not helping at all. However, due to the spamming keywords used, search engines started to filter out the spamming keyword, so over using keyword on your blog/site will not help.
Keywords are important, but it is also important to use them correctly.
Incoming Links. Trading links with other blog/site (reciprocal links) used to be a successful SEO for link popularity. However, it doesn’t do so much good anymore. The search engines actually looking for quality links that aren’t reciprocal. Now thinking why online advertising is such a success nowadays? Either you do a good advertisement or write a good content to attract people to link you themselves without reciprocal link.
I myself having problem about SEO too, because I’m using too much keyword and writing too much paid post. A year ago, Google started to filter out all the blogs that write paid post and sell link space. So there’s no PR on many blogs nowadays, but hey, advertisers look for traffic as well
02
Aug
So, you wanted to blog? Be it blogging for your own, blogging for a niche topic or blogging for business. To make it look and sound professional, there’s always steps to go for. Let me see what I can dig out from my previous experiences.
Point 1 - Choose your blogging platform
There are so many blogging script out there. But only 2 are widely used, which are Wordpress and Blogger. Don’t worry, both of them are free
Point 2 - What you want to write about?
This is the hardest point when you wanted to start on writing about anything, even if you know your niche content. However, to make sure the blog would run like professional for search engine (Forget about visitors for a while), look for the top 100 keywords of the day/month/year whichever you can find. After all, visitors are the one who type in the keywords aren’t them?
Point 3 - What your reader what
You can just write whatever you want. That is easy. But blogging as a professional blogging is not fun as you thought. The key here is to compete with other bloggers to get as many readers as possible. Unique content is a gold mine.
After all these steps, I’m starting to blog right away I haven’t touch how to advertise your blogs and make money etc just yet. When I compile every information in my mind and I’ll post it up, soon there won’t be any need of mortgage lenders since people are all starting to blog
