Tag Archives | advice

Stop Complaining – Podcast 211

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

We all complain day after day.  We complain about little things.  We complain about big things.  We complain about things that do not make any sense.  In web hosting, the main thing we complain about is the relationship between a web host and a customer (or vice versa depending on which side of the fence you are on).  Today, we have a very special guest that will help us all curb our complaining habits.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 211!
Running Time: 7 minutes | File Size: 3.14 MB

Meilena Hauslendale personal development author, and has been providing life guidance and insight for over 11 years.  She has published six books and in those books, her style of writing really gives the reader a step by step guide to achieving success.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

7 Questions to Ask a SEO Company

Best SEO Questions

Now, anybody who has been following my websites over the years should know by now that I like to go down the, do it yourself route most of the time.  However, if you are a company with a budget to spare, hiring a search engine optimization expert or firm might be a worthy investment.

However, before you sign on the dotted line and hand them over your hard earned cash, I would suggest you go over these seven important factors when it comes to the search engine optimization business.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

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.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

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.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

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.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 208!
Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.69 MB

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

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.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

How to Fix a Server Resource Site Suspension

800px-Driver_tools

Nobody likes having their web hosting account suspended for any reason.  Going through a server resource usage suspension though can be on of the more stressful combination of web site hosting problems because of the many factors that come into play.  Let me see if I can help you, to make your next server resource suspension at least go a little smoother, or at least let you know what you can expect.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Using Too Many Server Resources – Podcast 207

Podcast #208 Getting an e-mail saying that you are using “too many system resources” as it relates to your web site hosting account can be a scary situation.  What does this mean, and what can be done to get your web site back up and running.  This week we’ll be discussing what using “too many resources” in web hosting really means, and what you can do to curb your usage so you can get back up and running.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 207!
Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.39 MB

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Learn on this week’s podcast how to reduce your impact on the shared hosting server your web site is hosted from and have a little fun.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Making Money on Affiliate Hosting – Podcast 206

Podcast 206 I might have been missing in action for a few weeks, but I have finally figure out a way to make it up to you.  I’m going to share my tips with web hosts on how to get more web hosting clients and I’m going to tell the webmasters out there how to earn more money.  So what is the secret?  I have one word for you.  Affiliate.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 206!
Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.48 MB

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

The world of affiliate hosting, for both web hosts and web hosting clients is surrounded with a lot of buzz words and scariness.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

The MIDGET Rule to Forum Success

How to Run Successful Forums Anybody can set up a forum script and host it somewhere, but what does it take to make a set of forums on the Web a big success?  Well, I might not be able to help you build the most popular set of message boards you have ever seen (because if I could, I’d be doing that – earning millions in Google AdSense ads, and not still going on and on here).  I do have a few suggestions though how you can get off the ground after having setup your forum script.

If you can remember the word M.I.D.G.E.T. you too can run a successful set of forums.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Effective Web Site Navigation Rules

Web Site Navigation Tips

A web site visitor should never be confused by your web site’s navigational layout.  Every web page out there should have an easy way to navigate both to new web pages and categories, but also back out of them.  Think of it as reaching a fork in an old country road, choosing to go down the left road – and then turning around and finding a pink hippopotamus in a tutu.  While that might sound ridiculous – many web sites leave visitors with the pink hippo more often than not.

Continue Reading →

Read full story · Comments { 0 }