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Summary: Well-known for providing the most advanced web hosting solutions, DWHS has now announced a basic reseller web hosting package for only $18.99 a month. This package also comes with a 45-day money back guarantee. You can upgrade or degrade the plan at anytime for no extra charge.

PR Body: Well-known for providing the most advanced web hosting solutions, DWHS has now announced a basic reseller web hosting package for only $18.99 a month. This means all major news release websites like PR web and so fourth need to approve your article to get paid. This package also comes with a 45-day money back guarantee. You can upgrade or degrade the plan at anytime for no extra charge.

As we know that reseller web hosting (http://www.dwhs.net/reseller-hosting.htm) offers one of the most cost-effective ways for hosting a website since it is nothing but reselling a hosting service by an intermediate user. Many people have started using this service to make a residual income. Hence the basic reseller web-hosting package offered by DWHS will help many to promote their services efficiently and make a very productive business out of reseller hosting.

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• Manage over 100k domains running reliably at their peek performance.

• Trusted BBB members and Local Business Network members for over 7 years in Los Angeles, CA.

• Cutting edge award winning control panel – simple and intuitive.

The company works hard to maintain its position by offering more options and higher quality services. From the technical side to the business side DWHS (http://www.dwhs.net) is a well-rounded performance machine ready to provide the best web hosting experience for you. Customers can place their orders via the Internet, e-mail, fax, phone as well as any method of purchase, such as Money Gram, Check and Western Union.

About DWHS:

DWHS is an American corporation with headquarters in Los Angeles, California, Seattle and Washington. The company was established in the year 1998, with the aim to give your website the best performance possible. The easy to use interface “CPANEL” offered by the company, combined with a free website tool will help your website’s online presence be the best. The combination of speed, reliability with daily back ups and industry leading support makes them one of the leaders in the industry. Moreover, the customized security system provided by them helps in blocking password sharing and brute force password attempts.

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SiteLab’s Top 10 Reasons to Redesign Your Company Website
If you haven’t taken a close look at your website lately or checked out competitors’ websites, you could be missing out! A new site redesign may become your competitive advantage to growing your business. It could be the answer to low sales conversions or an increase in new traffic to your website. Here are a few reasons as to why a website redesign is worth the time and effort.

1. Rookie or a Pro? – The site looks amateurish and parts of the site are broken.
Recent studies have shown that people form an opinion of a website within the first three seconds of viewing it. Make sure your customer’s first impression is of a professional business rather than someone who isn’t serious about what they’re selling.

2. Is this thing on? – The site doesn’t ask viewers to do something.
If you’re selling a product, you need to ask your visitors to click a link to buy the product. If you’re selling a service, you need to ask your viewers to submit a form and contact you to get a free quote. Give your customer an easy way to take action.

3. One and done – Viewers don’t have a reason to return to your site.
Give visitors a reason to return, whether it is a great article, or seasonal coupons, or a blog. Make your website an important part of your customers lives.

4. So last year – The information on the site is obviously dated.
It is an unfortunate fact for organizations that websites show their age if left unattended. Considerable damage can be done to your reputation if customers discover that information or products on your web site are out of date. Worse still, incorrect. If your website is out of date consider using some kind of content management system, appropriate for the job, to keep it fresh. If the design looks like it is from 1999, your customers will move on to a competitor.

5. This is taking forever to load!?!? – The pictures on the site aren’t “optimized.”
You may have photos on your site that you took yourself. This can cause major problems for viewers. If your site is full of huge pictures that take forever to download and look bad once they do, viewers will leave and never come back.

6. Quick Info – The body text is too long.
Reading text on a computer screen is harder on the eyes than reading from a piece of paper. The font shouldn’t be too small or too large, and the typeface should be one that’s easy to read on a screen. If you have a lot to say about your company then find unique ways to direct viewers to the information rather than one huge long block of text. You can also add headings and subheads which help optimize your site for search engines.

7. I found you – Get Better Search Engine Optimization For Your Website
Chances are that you probably have your website listed in search engine databases. However, what does it matter if you’re not listed on page 1 of search results?  The vast majority of searchers never go beyond page 1 of search results.  This makes it imperative that your website rank on page 1 for the most desirable search terms.  Identify your top search terms, then make sure these terms appear throughout your website in body copy, links, headlines, etc.  If you have a lot of target keywords, take a more strategic approach and target certain pages for certain keywords.  Make sure to stay on top of which keywords are the best as these will change over time.  For the best search engine optimization results, you should definitely consider having your website redesigned.

8. 404 Error – The site is down or can’t be found.
If your site can’t be found by anyone, what good is it doing you? If the problem is that your site is constantly down, consider a new hosting service.  If you can’t be found on the web it may be because your website was not designed with keywords, alt tags and the best title tags. Search engine optimization is the answer. You may also need links to your site from other sites or website marketing. Don’t forget ideas such as direct mail to get your website name out there.

9. If you can’t beat them join them? – Your website looks like all your competitors websites
How unique is your website? If someone is researching your product category will they be wowed over by your website? Does it have something your competitors don’t such as useful articles or an engaging design? Are you leveraging the lastest in Web 2.0?

10. Are you a luxury brand? – The design of your website doesn’t reflect your company image.
Sometimes it’s the use of color, typefaces or special artwork that makes your website reflect your image. If your customer buys your product because it is fun – do you come across as fun? Whether your company is conservative, elegant, innovative, kid-friendly or something els, make sure your website fits.

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At the most basic part of how to work from home on the internet there is three main paths.

1. Find a affiliate or reseller program or find a skill like data entry and solicit your services.

2. Find your own product and put a shopping cart on your website. Paypal works great for this.

3. Provide a valuable content for a subscription fee

There is thousands of other way but I want to focus on the top three.

1 .. First find a affiliate or reseller program or find a skill like data entry and solicit your services. This the easiest of all ways to make money on the internet. I recomend finding something that most people use every month and that you use and have a opinion on. For example mps players, you can find a website that specializes in MP3 players and check to see if they have a affiliate program.

If they do then you should start a basic website, even one page is fine. Do not get a free web page or a page from the business that sells the product. This will be much harder to market and get search engine traffic to.

On your website post something eye grabbing like their lowest price MP3 player. Now add test that has to do with this devise on the page in a attractive and professional manner.

Next you should add a blog on the website, I recomend wordpress for this and DWHS for hosting since they have word press that can be added for free easily and they only charge$3 for a basic website.

Make sure and update your blog 3 times a week even if it’s cut and pasting stuff from the website that you are sending customers to. This will eventually make money if website has a good product, make sure and have a friend or you test the website to see if the affiliate program and website itself works well.

2 .. Find your own product and put a shopping cart on your website. Paypal works great for this. This is actually easier then you think. Even if all you sale is candles or toilet paper if the site is clean, professional, and functional you will make at least some sales.

First find a distributer, in this example lets say a local candle maker. At first you will not make much from the candles because you will not buy them in bulk but this starting process is how almost all business with no start up costs will work.

Next sign up for paypal and use there shopping cart option to add the candles to your website and allow for people to buy them. You will also want to make friends with your local shipping office so you can eventually get a shipping discount.

Next build a blog on your website and update it once a week with stuff in regards to candles. You will also want to sale these products on Ebay and Craigslist.

3 .. Provide a valuable content for a subscription fee. This is done in so many ways I couldn’t cover them all but some are EBooks, News, Groups, Content, ECT.. ECT..

For this you don’t need a shopping cart, just a website with some great sales stuff on it and a company like verotel to manage the members and payments

Other things to consider:

Get good hosting, slow or dead web pages do not get customers. We recomend www.dwhs.net for this

Link to you blog from at least your front but even better is every page.

Make sure and add images to each blog post, it makes it less boring.

Think of these words first when making a website: clean, professional, and functional

It’s not that bad to have someone else build the website. PageAlive.com does a page for $100 flat

Be patient, search engines take about three months to list and update new sites.

Written by Charles Yarbrough for www.marketingspot.com
www.charlesyarbrough.com

Update

It’s coming to a age where having a website is necessary for all business owners. But who has time to update all the new products and business changes on a daily basis? The reality is the majority of business owners update their web page every 6-12 months. Usually this consists of something they think will improve the image of the website. The part that’s commonly overlooked is that updating your website pages and text at least once a month has huge benefits far beyond any benefit of a slight image change.

By updating the web page once a month it adds credibility with customers and even more credibility with the internet process (Search engines and other websites). Search engines will always list a website that is active over stale, plain, and low text (content) websites. The differance between adding even a little more text each month is huge for how search engines will consider your website in the SE ranking system.

Of course adding jiberrish will not help much, but adding good text based stories, information, and by building more pages you WILL make a huge differance. With that said here is the top 5 reasons to update your website atleast once a month:

1. Search Engines – They see changed and content rich web pages as a active website and will always rank this over a stale website.

2. Other Websites – The internet starves for new original information and by adding it to your website regularly you will have a much better chance to get free one way links to your website.

3. Customers – When customers see a website that is updated and has lots of perdinant information they are more likely to save the page to there favorites and come back!

4. Personal Investment – I’m not big on tricking myself but the more you add to your website and see actual results the more fun it will be to add more content and watch your website grow.

5. Website Quality – Eventually you will notice errors or little ways to clean up and make the website more usable when your actively updating it.

The best way to stay active is to add a blog to your website, www.wordpress.com is a search engine friendly and is super easy for anyone to use. Most web hosts like www.dwhs.net has it available for free by the push of a button. For example www.ocfocus.com You can see how the main website is the front line for the business and just adding a link on the bottom of each page to your blog you can have a easily updatability website that the search engines and your customers will love.

The other option is to have a non-static website, you can so this with blog software or any CMS (content management system) www.drupal.com is a good option for this but might require slightly higher hosting fees to run it.

Written by Charles Yarbrough for www.marketingspot.com
www.charlesyarbrough.com

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So you’ve decided it’s time you got your own web hosting account. Congratulations! Once you start researching various hosts, it can be a scary thing though. So many options and choices, where do you even begin?

The first thing you need to do is analyze your needs. If you’ve never had your own web host before, you might be thinking, “How do I even know what those needs are?” Here are a few of the first questions you need to ask yourself:

  • What is my website going to do?
  • Do I expect it to require a lot of files such as images?
  • Will I be getting a lot of traffic?
  • Do I plan to do ecommerce?
  • What’s my budget?

There are three key types of hosting out there: Shared hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated servers, and this is where your big decision will come in.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosts are the type you see advertising all over the web with prices such as “$7.95 a month!”. They will offer you what appears to be insane amounts of storage and bandwidth, which looks great on paper, but you need to realize they don’t expect you to ever use as much as they offer.

The reason for this is they are working on the theory that the majority of their users will use just a small percentage of what they offer, so they can oversell their space. Say a host is offering you 500gb of storage (far, far more than your average user will ever approach), and they have 30,000 active accounts, for them to give everyone that true amount of storage, they would have to have 15,000 terabytes of physical storage. That’s a near impossibility for your average web host company.

They are counting on the vast majority of their accounts to use only a few gigabytes of actual storage compared to what they are offering. This allows them to sell far more accounts, and in theory, sell things they don’t really have. It may sound like they are liars, but it’s really just a numbers game like insurance.

The other trick is that they are going to try to cram as many accounts on to each server as they can. While this normally won’t be a problem for must users, if there is someone on your server who is using too many of the resources, it can slow down your site considerably.

This may sound like a horrible deal now that you know the caveats, but these types of hosts will work for most people. If you’re just going to be hosting a personal blog, or a website for a few family photos and the such, there is no reason you can’t go with this type of arrangement, and it’s going to be the most cost effective solution.

Virtual Private Server Hosting

This style of hosting is definitely the middle-of-the-road solution. Virtual Private Servers, or VPS, works on a similar principle to shared hosting of several accounts on one server, it does offer a greater degree of privacy.

A host will take a server, divide it into completely separate partitions, and then each customer gets control over their portion of the server to play with. Each section can be rebooted independently, and it allows for greater security amongst the accounts sharing the hardware.

The downsides are that you will need to have some knowledge of how a server works, something most people do not possess. The cost will be higher than shared hosting, but you will be able to work in a more stable environment.

Dedicated Hosting

Now that we’ve covered the shortcomings of shared hosting and VPS, what can dedicated hosting do for you?

As the name implies, this is where you get a sever all to yourself. You will have complete access to the root files, the ability to reboot the server at will, and customize it to your liking. The problem is that all of this comes with a price.

While shared hosting has numerous shortcomings, dedicated hosting typically runs from $100 to $150 a month depending on the amount of storage and bandwidth you’re purchasing. You will also be responsible for much of your server’s daily operations, something that is not for the novice web hosting customer.

So where do you go?

For most people, shared hosting, despite it’s numerous flaws, will do everything you need, and you won’t even notice the problems. As I said, if you’re just going to be putting up a personal blog, it’s all you need. And even if you are putting up a ecommerce site, depending on it’s size, traffic, and if your host offers a secure socket for your shopping cart, it may work for you.

VPS and dedicated hosting are going to be more for the serious web masters out there who aren’t afraid of getting their hands dirty messing around in the guts of their server’s operating system. It looks a lot scarier than it is, but considering how important your web site can be to your projects or company, it’s not something you want to jeopardize lightly.

The other thing to remember is that most hosts will let you upgrade for a small fee, most will do it for free, if you decide down the road that you need to go to a larger hosting package. So if you start off with a shared hosting account and you find you are just using too much bandwidth, then you can look into moving up since you are now a proven site that can probably afford a larger budget.

And that brings us to another point in that you always need to read the fine print of any hosting agreement. Just like any contract you enter into, you need to make sure you understand what exactly it is you’re paying for. Recently, DreamHost, one of the largest hosting companies in the world, had to remind their customers that though they offered them a huge amount of storage, that did not mean they were a backup service. Customers got enthralled with the amount of storage they had and started backing up the computers on to their servers. As DreamHost is a web hosting company, they had to remind their customers that files on their system had to be there for their web sites, not as a backups for their personal files.

The final pick

Once you’ve found a host that fits your needs, and their terms of service (TOS) look good to you, how are you sure they are reliable? Like with any major purchase, enter their name in a search engine and see what the results bring you. If they’re horrible, more than likely you’ll find someone writing about them on a blog or message board. Just remember that people who are happy with a service are less likely to write about it than those who are unhappy.

In the end, it’s going to come down to your personal needs. If your a company looking to just inform your customers about what it does, or someone looking to start a personal site, then shared hosting will probably do the trick.

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10) Misspelling a Domain

Back in the glory days of the late 1990’s when I was working for a large Internet agency, the web designers had responsibility for the registration of domain names on behalf of clients. One particular designer had a face to face meeting with a major client, during which the client asked him to register CarTuneCentral.com (or so he thought!). The staffer did a check and was delighted to see the domain available. He made the purchase and proudly emailed the client.

An hour later his boss called him in to his office to say that he’d had a call from a very frustrated client who *actually* wanted him to register CartoonCentral.com. Needless to say the desired domain wasn’t available and the whole office dined on his mistake for months.

9) Letting the Domain Name Expire

Now what type of company would allow their domain to expire a month after site launch? A very large one, that’s who. I’ll save the company some embarrassment and won’t reveal their name but the site was offline for a total of 2 days while they scrambled to pay their registrar, sort out DNS propagation and cover their tails.

8) Flashing your Cyber Underpants

One of the most common web site management platforms provided by hosting companies used to store the site statistics in a common folder called /statistics/. You could password protect this folder, but the default was to leave it open to the public and so many unwary webmasters unwittingly published full traffic data for their site on the Internet, open to any person who knew where to look.

I learned this the hard way in a public forum from a member who said he had just reviewed my traffic for the previous month and was very impressed. Publishing site statistics for all the world to see is what I call flashing your cyber underpants and I haven’t let it happen again!

7) Publishing Sensitive Company Information

Quite a few companies have been guilty of doing this, including AOL, who published a search data report in 2006 that contained the private details of thousands of AOL customers. Although the report was taken offline within a few days, it had already been mirrored and distributed across the Internet. The fallout eventually led to the resignation of AOL’s Chief Technical Officer.

Although not quite as serious, an ex-client of mine once published a page that had notes on it from the Sales Manager about the best way to strong-arm a customer into purchasing a higher-ticket item. Apparently the web designer didn’t realize the hand-written post-it notes were not part of the web page copy. Duh!

6) Using an Insulting 404 Error Page

I clash with the web design team of one of my clients on a regular basis. Earlier this year, my client completely re-designed their web site and so I recommended they ask their web design team to design a custom 404 error page in case visitors navigated to a page on the old site that no longer existed.

Their web design team put up a message that read:

“404 Error. You’ve obviously typed in the wrong URL. Either that or the page you are looking for no longer exists.”

That was it! No apology for the missing page, no recommendatíon to use the navigation to find what they were looking for, just an insulting message that accuses the visitor of being an idiot. Persons viewing that page would be clicking the “back” button as fast as they could.

5) Taking a Site Offline for Maintenance

I find it fascinating that very large sites run by intelligent people still get taken offline for maintenance on a regular basis. Search engines don’t understand the “Back in 15 minutes” sign and the longer the site is down, the bigger the risk.

If search bots try and index a site while it is down, they will most likely assume the previously indexed pages have expired and drop them from the search index. This means that all your hard-earned rankings could be flushed down the toilet until search engines can successfully re-index your site. Surely a mirror site for maintenance periods isn’t that difficult to set up?

4) Buying a Dot Bíz When the Dot Com Was Available

Ok, I’m putting up my hand on this one. I’m not going to reveal the domain but yes, I registered a dot bíz domain back in 2000 when the dot com was actually available. The dot com version of my domain was bought by Yahoo a short time later and turned into a product site. Ack! My excuse is that, at the time, dot bíz sites were rumored to be the next big thing and all companies were being urged to choose them over dot coms. Ok, I was wrong!

3) Allowing a Customer Complaint to Remain on a Site for 12 Months

When I was working as a public relations consultant, I was given the responsibility of re-writing the web copy of a large real estate client. One of the areas I was asked to re-write was the welcome paragraph on the Customer Feedback page where existing customers of the estate agent chain could login and leave comments about their experience.

While writing the copy, I scanned some of the customer feedback and came across an aggressive message left 12 months earlier by an obviously unhappy customer. She had used some of the most colorful language I’ve ever seen (and some that I hadn’t) and very detailed descriptions of how she was going to take her revenge on the company for allegedly allowing a tenant to destroy her house. Nobody in charge of the web site had even noticed the comment and I still wonder how many potential customers would have been put off from using the estate agent after reading it.

2) Switching a Web Site Off for a 3 Week Christmas Vacatíon

Yes, many moons ago, an ex-client of mine decided to take her entire web site offline (without telling me!) while she was on a 3 week vacatíon over Christmas. Only a month earlier, she had paid me $5,000 to optimize it for search engines.

It had just achieved some impressive top 10 results and all the carefully optimized pages were attracting good traffic when she shut it down and replaced the entire site with a 1 page sign that said “closed until after Christmas”. I noticed the traffic and search ranking declines in her stats and was completely flabbergasted when I found the site gone. Her response when I confronted her? “Why didn’t you TELL ME this could happen?”

And the dumbest web site decision I’ve ever witnessed?

1) Promoting a Domain Name You Don’t Own:

My Alma Mater, the University of Newcastle, have spent thousands of dollars on television advertising here in Australia, marketing their new site for online post-graduate coursework: GradSchool Dot Com. There’s only one problem. The domain for this site is actually Gradschool.com.au. They don’t even own Gradschool.com!

Sadly, this glaring marketing error seems to have totally escaped them and they are happily referring to their brand as Gradschool.com on all their marketing material and throughout their .com.au domain. It’s tragic to think of all the potential students typing in Gradschool.com expecting to find the University program. I see that whoever purchased Gradschool.com has slapped up some AdSense code on it so at least somebody will reap the benefits of those thousands of advertising dollars wasted by the University.

Don’t let any of these web site tragedies happen to you. Make sure that your site decisions aren’t in the hands of dummies!

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