I%26#039;ve narrowed it down to: Bluehost, Hostgator and Lunarpages. Anybody have experience with these, good or bad?
I%26#039;m Looking for a shared web host for my e-commerce site, which one of the following do you recommend?
If you like to create websites (usually you will end up more than 1 website, I got more than 100 websites in about 6 months%26#039; time), go for multiple web hosting services where you could host all your websites in one account.
I would like to suggest following webhosting , they are excellent.
Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukend...
They offer hosting of %26quot;unlimited domains%26quot; and you will get massive webspace of 300000 MB (300 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer %26quot;a free Domain Name%26quot; and installing service called %26quot;Fantastico%26quot;. By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer %26quot;Free Website Builder%26quot; as well.
Visit the site to check details.
Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukend...
Domains
Following site is quite good to register domains as price is reasonable with free privacy. Some charge about $5/ year just for free privacy.
IPOWER http://www.anurl.com/?TXIBE
I%26#039;m Looking for a shared web host for my e-commerce site, which one of the following do you recommend?
Hi,
No, don%26#039;t use any of these. They will not put you where you want to be.
Your primary concern is whether they include search engine marketing in their packages. I checked Bluehost and they do not. You have to go to a third party for it at 100keywords and here is their best package which costs $80 to set up and $50 a month thereafter.
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*** BEST VALUE ***
Monthly Essentials - Continuous improvement of your web presence is critical to your long term success. The montly essentials is designed to build your web site popularity over time. The service includes includes (Tuneup/Optimization + Silver Traffic Services + Monthly Link Building) We will also review and analyze ranking results and provide additional Tuneup and Optimizations as needed.%26quot;
So now you are looking at $8 + $50 = 5
$58/month or around $720 per year. This is ridiculous. They don%26#039;t even talk about keywords sprinkled through your Web pages. For that it cost even more a month.
I cannot emphasize more about how critical search engine marketing is to the success of your Web site.
Uploading you Web site to a host server is only 5% of what you need to do to get the search engines to index your Web site to a low page rank - the other 95% is concerned with traffic. No traffic = no visitors = no income.
You should really try a free Web host, but make sure there are no ads. This is possible at (http://www.50webs.com/)
Totally FREE - NO ADS
60 MB Free Hosting
1 Free E-mail Address
1 Free FTP Account
Web-based File Manager
Intergrated HTML Editor
Remember, surfers are not looking for your Web site. They search by keywords.
This is a very good book for building traffic: Search Engine Optimization - An Hour A Day by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin. Their advice is mostly free.
Hiring an expert to do SEM is expensive.
With this book you do not need any costly SEO services.
Why pay $50/month for something you can do yourself?
Building traffic is the key to Internet success. Just publishing a Web site doesn%26#039;t cut it. It%26#039;s not like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams, where if you build it they will come.
No way.
Get real.
That only happens in the movies, not in real life.
Then, there is Brad Tabke%26#039;s %26quot;26 steps to 15K a day%26quot;. It boils down to solid content thoughtfully put together can make more impact than a decade%26#039;s worth of tweaks that may or may not work such as fiddling with META tags. Find his 26 steps here: (http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-2797.ht...
Brad also created and runs one of the best forums for Web site building information at: (http://www.webmasterworld.com/).
This is the exact same plan used by Site Build It. See Ken%26#039;s blog: (http://blogit.sitesell.com/waltera1.html... I%26#039;m not saying Brad stole it from Ken Evoy, but Ken developed what is known as the C + T + P + M formula.
This is how the formula works:
Create in-demand content (information) - C
Attract Targeted Traffic (visitors) - T
Presell Those Visitors - P
Monitize Presold Traffic - M
Content
Web users search for information, for solutions. They are not looking for you - they don%26#039;t even know you (yet!). They seek what you know. Give it to them. Convert your knowledge into in-demand Content. (http://ctpm.sitesell.com/waltera1.html) To succeed online, start where they start - at %26quot;the search.%26quot;
Traffic
Your topical content ranks high at the Search Engines (ex., Google, Yahoo!, MSN), attracting free, targeted (i.e., interested), open-to-you visitors. Basically, these future customers %26quot;meet you%26quot; at your site. These visitors are known as %26quot;Traffic.%26quot;.
PREsell
Complete strangers develop trust and confidence in you. Why? You %26quot;PREsell%26quot; by OVERdelivering what they seek... relevant, original, information.
Deliver it in your own voice, in your own way. Go beyond merely instilling confidence... your visitors will like you.
Monetize
Convert warm, willing-to-buy (%26quot;PREsold%26quot;) visitors into income. Called %26quot;Monetizing,%26quot; this is the easy part. But %26quot;M%26quot; cannot happen if you fail to first execute C T P. This is where 99% of small businesses fail.
You want a host that includes traffic building in their package. Not some host that will nickel and dime you to death with add-ons.
I kid you not.
Kindest Personal Regards,
Walt Brown
Site Build It Certified Webmaster
http://buildit.sitesell.com/waltera1.thm...
walter@capecod-beaches.com
wab@theworld.com
http://www.capecod-beaches.com/
http://www.wareham-boatyard-marina.com/
P.S. Start a blog to promote your Web site. Word press is a good one. It you have the right Web Site Build software, it includes a blog feature so that every time you create a new page, it gets posted on the Web as a blog. Turn your blog into articles and submit them to article sites with your URL.
P.P.S. You flat out do not have enough content on your Web site. If you did the SEs would find you. You need more information, more Web pages with quality content, to attract traffic via the SEs.. One page Web sites have no no content. Create more pages. Use the content to submit articles to article Web sites. Make sure the articles refer back to your Web page. This will attract more visitors and the SEs.
P.P.P.S. Good articles on search engine marketing here - no hype - (http://www.jehochman.com/articles/).
P.P.P.P.S. Here are some other books that you need to read:
Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend, by Jr., Jerry Lee Ford (Paperback - Nov 1, 2005)
%26quot;How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money%26quot; by Bruce C. Brown, 2006 (Although I have a brother named Bruce his middle initial is %26quot;L%26quot; for Loring, so we are not related to Bruce C., even tho I call my younger brother, Brucy.
Web Design: The L Line, The Express Line to Learning (The L Line: The Express Line To Learning) (Paperback)
by Sue Jenkins, 2007
Google Analytics by Mary E. Tyler and Jerri Ledford, 2006
Web Site Cookbook: Solutions %26amp; Examples for Building and Administering Your Web Site (Cookbooks (O%26#039;Reilly)) by Doug Addison, 2006
