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Best Web Hosting Companies

Published on July 11, 2008 in WP, Web Marketing, Web development, Web domains, bluehost, hostmonster, mybestratedwebhosting.com, web design, web designers, web host, web hosting, web hosting reviews, web sites and web traffic. 8 Comments

When you are new on the world wide web, and ready to choose your first web hosting provider, the first question on your mind would be to know as to which web hosting is the best web hosting for your company?

If you have just started with a new website, and it’s your first time online presence, you may want to know how to choose a domain name, followed by choosing a web hosting provider. I would recommend that you start off with a web host provider that provides you only as much disk space as you may require initially and then gradually provides you additional disk space as your website grows in terms of the content with time. No point spending extra amount on space that remains unused. So first identify whether your site is graphic-intensive because that could take away a lot of disk space.

Try to get some experience first and you can always move to another web host later. In order to be able to do that, you would require a web hosting company service that does not force you to sign up for more than a year. You may get discounted prices for signing up for a longer period, but if you say shut down your site in less than one year, that discount would be a loss. Basically you don’t want to pay extra unless your site is popular. When your website generates huge traffic, you could consider longer periods to pay. Now that would be a value-add!

For beginners, BlueHost and HostMonster offer reasonable prices with a good service. Headsetoptions.org now provides an attractive web hosting package along with your custom WordPress Themes and Web Design. Contact us for more details.

Google Top Searches 2007 vs Yahoo Top Ten: iPhone and Britney Spears No. 1

Published on December 5, 2007 in Anna Nicole Smith, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Club Penguin, Facebook, Fantasy Football, Fergie, Google, Google Inc., Google Top 10, Heroes, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, MySpace, Naruto, Paris Hilton, Rune Scape, SEO, TMZ, Top searches 2007, Transformer, WWE, Web 2.0, Web technology, Webkinz, Yahoo Top 10, YouTube, hot, iPhone, top keywords, web traffic and yahoo. 12 Comments

Hottest searches for 2007: Technology and entertainment. Britney Spears sure knows how to be in the news!

Check out the top search keywords for Google and Yahoo 2007.

Top Searches

Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

1. iPhone: iPhone, the Apple mobile phone with music and video player and web browsing features tops the Google top searches 2007 list.
2. Webkinz: Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online.
3. TMZ: A telepictures production and America Online joint venture that provides an inside look at the latest celebrity scandals.
4. Transformer toys: Transformers are highly flexible toys that shift shape, and became wildly popular from the 2007 hit movie transformers
5. YouTube: online video-sharing site
6. Club Penguin: Networking site for children
7. MySpace: Social networking site
8. Heroes: Heroes is an American science fiction serial drama television series created by Tim Kring on NBC.
9. Facebook: Social/business networking site
10. Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Nicole Smith was an American sex symbol, model, actress, celebrity, and spokeswoman.

Yahoo Top 10 Searches for 2007:

1. Britney Spears: An American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer actress and author.
2. WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events), and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.
3. Paris Hilton: An American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality.
4. Naruto: Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimotoanime adaptation. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.
5. Beyonce: An American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer, the creative force and lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child, the world’s best-selling female group of all time.
6. Lindsay Lohan: An American actress and pop music singer.
7. Rune Scape: The massive online adventure game by Jagex Ltd
8. Fantasy Football: A fantasy sports game in which participants (called “owners”) are arranged into a league.
9. Fergie: An American pop, hip hop, and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
10. Jessica Alba: An American actress, whose TV and film credits include Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007′s Good Luck Chuck.

10 Tips to Increase Traffic with Alexa Web Marketing

Published on April 26, 2007 in Alexa, Alexa toolbar, Amazon, Blogging basics, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Site Stats, Strategy, Traffic Booster, Traffic Graph, Web Marketing, Web technology, ranking, tips and tricks and web traffic. 16 Comments

TrafficAlexa.com if the #1 Traffic Ranker in the blogosphere.

1. First and foremost, add the Alexa Site Stats Button to your site, if your site ranking is high, flaunt it in a visible spot. Even if your site ranking is not high, the toolbar will act as a constant motivator for you to be a active blogger.

2. Add Alexa Toolbar to your own site and let your readers know that it also blocks pop-ups!

3. Find out your competitor’s ranking. If yours is higher, display a comparative traffic graph proudly on your site with Alexa’s free traffic graph banner.

4. Alexa is owned by Amazon. The reviews done on Alexa can be a part of your Amazon profile. If you don’t have an Amazon profile, get it now!

5. If you have an associate ID, Amazon will include your ID in your link. Also, any purchases made at Amazon using the new Alexa toolbar will earn you commissions.

6. Thank your customers and well-wishers for writing good Alexa/Amazon reviews for you. You can also thank your customers by providing them a discount or a free gift. This might encourage them to be a repeat publisher for you!

7. Once you establish a friendly base with your new customers, you could request permission to re-publish the review on your own site as a testimonial. Even better if the individual/site who reviews your site is more reputed than yours, or at least as good as your own.

8. If your site traffic increased by adding affiliate products to your site, highlight it with the free dynamic Alexa traffic graph and encourage others to be your sub-affiliates. High traffic could translate into high sales.

9. Keep a track of the upcoming and current trends by visiting the global top 500 sites on Alexa’s homepage. If you want to capitalise on the difference in economies in different countries, I would recommend a thorough study of country-specific top sites.

10. Last but not the least, do visit Alexa at least once or twice a day!

If any of you have tested any of the Traffic Booster softwares online, do leave your comments here!

Not HOT ENOUGH

Published on March 22, 2007 in Blogosphere, Startup, Web 2.0, business venture, hot, hot enough, hot-o-meter, jason pellegrino, online dating sites, sizzle, social networking, web sites and web traffic. 25 Comments

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“Submit three pictures, one of which is a full-body picture and get rated on an attractiveness scale from 1-10.”

Is this a call for aspiring models to be hired by an ad agency? No.

‘HotEnough’, is an online dating site where prospective ‘fit’ and ‘good-looking’ members must submit pictures and must be rated 8 or higher on a scale of 1-10 by people already there in the club, before they get lucky to be part of the $9.95 monthly membership. This means if you look average or worse, you are out and even if you are good-looking, you stand only 20% chances of being called “hot”.

Duh! Every man dreams of hotties 36-24-36, but it’s evident that given a choice between a “dumb hottie” and a “not-so-goodlooking intelligent chick”, Jason Pellegrino would probably choose the dumber one, why bother checking out the less-goodlooking ones at all. Intelligence, compatiblity, compassion, other qualities, do they count? Guess not.

Some might call this discrimination shallow, but to qualify for a truly shallow website, Jason needs to add some features to the ‘attractiveness scale’ like:

  • Money
  • Mansion
  • Mercedes

If you can’t make it to the beauty contest, you can at least make it to “Jason’s Hot-o-meter”. Lame.

SIZE DOES MATTER: In the WEB 2.0 World

Published on March 13, 2007 in Blogosphere, Business networking, Digg, Link juice, MySpace, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web technology, eBay, funny news, networking, size does matter, social networking and web traffic. 1 Comment

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A says: What would you do if you had 5 wives, 25 children and 125 relatives?

B says: “Digg”.

C says: “Sell the population on eBay”.

Huh?? True, here’s how.