Archive | June, 2010

Truth About Search Engine Optimization

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an often talked about, yet rarely mastered trait that gets brought up in web hosting discussions.  Most people usually come down on SEO tips and tricks one of two ways.  They think it is legit and the business works, and others think it is all nothing but snake oil.

The truth of this age old debate is that search engine optimization is a legitimate business and way to get more traffic to your website.  However, there are SEO snake oil salesmen out there that have given the business a bad name.

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SEO Facts – Podcast 209

Podcast 209 You might know the basics, but do you know all that you need to know about search engine optimization?  On today’s podcast will be discussing what is true, and what might not be so true in this shady business and also arm you with the knowledge you need to know when it comes to finding your own SEO expert.  Guaranteed to rank number one for web hosting awesome, the Web Hosting Show is now on the air.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 209!
Running Time: 9 minutes | File Size: 4.15 MB

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So what should you know and be aware of?  Let me do what I can to help.

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Website Redesign Time at the Web Hosting Show

What did I spend my weekend on?  Thought it was about time I listened to your feedback and gave the Web Hosting Show’s web site a little ‘bit of a makeover.  Watch this video tour to learn more about all the great new features and simplifications of the basic look and feel of this very web site.

I hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for even more great web hosting tutorials, podcasts, videos and more right here on the Web Hosting Show.  I have some great things in store for all of you – so hope you will jump aboard the Web Hosting Show bandwagon and enjoy the ride.

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How to Get Faster Web Hosting Support

Faster Support Response Times Web hosts live and die by the support response time sword.  This one thing alone can make or break any web host.  While providing the best support is often a weight carried mostly on the back of your web host, there are things you can do (as a hosting client) to speed up the time it takes to get your web hosting problems fixed.

Let me share with you my tips on how you can faster web hosting support, with any web host out there on the planet.

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How to Give Faster Web Hosting Support

Better Web Hosting Support

A web hosting company can not keep a customer base happy with sloppy support habits.  Think of your reply back to a web hosting customer as a sandwich.  You start out with the slice of bread introducing yourself, you have the goodies inside which represent your reply and you have the second piece of bread to finish things off.  If you learn how to build your sandwich reply, then you can handle support situations in a much faster way than the web host down the block is doing it, making your web hosting company just a little ‘bit better.

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Give and Get Better Hosting Support – Podcast 208

Podcast 208 The relationship between a web host and its clients is like any other relationship out there on the planet today.  It is give and take.  It is yin and yang.  It is peanut butter and jelly.  There are two sides to every coin and both the web host and the web hosting client can take steps to get faster replies when website problems happen.  That is the topic of today’s podcast.  What can web hosts do to make their response times better, and what can clients do to speed up the web hosting support process.

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Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.69 MB

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Having been on both sides of the web hosting support fence, both as a client and as a web hosting customer support guru, I will give you all the insight I know about this topic today, in a handy mp3 format.

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