Hardware based failover monitoring systems

Hosting of web sites has essentially become a commodity. There is very little distinguishing one hosting company from the next. Core plans and features are the same and price is no longer a true determining feature. In fact, choosing a host based on the cheapest price can be more expensive in t...

When tracking how well you’re doing against competitors in Google are you winning, losing or just holding your own? Don’t know? Doesn’t surprise me. Most have no clue if they’re winning the Google rankings battle much less the war. Which is a shame since keeping score is so simple. Here’s a...

Forbes magazine reported that pay per click ads accounted for $1.4 billion in 2002 and are expected to increase to $8 billion by 2008. The fundamental core elements of a successful pay per click program are constant monitoring, analysis, and refinement. Pay per click search engines offer a way...

I frequent a number of search engine optimization forums on a daily basis and the one thing I see more of than anything else are optimizers who will quickly tell you that this method is evil, or that method is spam, or this other method is cross- linking. The search engines each have their ow...

Intranets and networks are evolving rapidly today in the R&D departments of various high-tech companies,where Moore's Law rules above all. The basic trend behind the "new" line of servers and clients is that they are becoming smaller and smaller. Smart Dust Researchers at the University of ...

From the obvious to the "Hey-I-never-thought-of-that-great-idea- before", here are 10 of the top 52 tips on how to optimize your website for its turbo-charge rocket ride up the search engine rankings. Deep linking. Make sure you have links coming in to as many pages as possible. What does it ...

Let us look at these two options. Assigning a query string value to your link. This method can work in pay-per-click engines, but when working with other engines and links, it can become cumbersome and not always work. By assigning a query string, you are adding a value to your URL that wil...

The recent shakeup in Google's search results, which set the SEO (search engine optimization) community buzzing and saw tens of thousands of webmasters watch their site ranking plummet, was in many ways inevitable. Almost all SEO companies and most savvy webmasters had a fairly good handle on wh...

You spent a ton of time getting your website just right for Google. And now your site has sunk to the very bottom of the results for several key phrases. Your traffic has plunged, and, worse, so have your profits. Sure, you know now you shouldn't have relied so heavily on one source of websit...

"Free Autoresponders!" It sounds to good to be true. But is this the right option for You and Your Home Business? There are three sources of free Autoresponders that might be considered when you work at home : [1] Autoresponders offered by your web host [2] Services like Sendfree a...

Writing for your web site is not the same as offline writing. The fonts used for print media are different than web fonts. This is because it's harder to read text on a computer screen and visitors tend to scan your web pages rather than read them word for word. When deciding on what web font to...

If you are reading this then you have probably experienced the chargeback problem. Over the last 6 months I have prided myself on not getting any chargebacks from a new Mini Site I created. In fact I did have one in that period and I won that dispute. Then May hit and I got slaughtered with 4 in...

It's tempting. There are so many companies offering cut-rate hosting - loaded with astounding post-futuristic techno-gizmo features ! - that it just makes sense to save a few dollars, right? Think again. First, consider how much you would be saving. If you run a business site, saving $5, $10 ...

Why would you want to earn a few cents or dollars per click from displaying Google AdSense ads on your web site? Can you really make good money from this source of revenue? Well, multiply those clicks for every page on your web site and you will build a monthly residual income with very little ...

Submitting your web site to the search engine directories will give you a great boost in traffic. A listing in a large search engine directory like ODP (Open Directory Project) enables your web site to get indexed for free by the major search engines such as AskJeeves, AOLSearch, Google, and Lyc...

A recent post in a discussion list suggested that Google is becoming the Microsoft of search (dominating web search as Microsoft dominates PC operating systems). So I decided to research a theory - one I'd developed about search engine traffic. I dug into the traffic stats on three of my own si...

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of hosting companies out there. They come in all price ranges, and with all kinds of bells and whistles. Here are some things you may want to look for in a hosting company, especially if your website is part of your overall marketing plan to sell products or...

UNDERSTANDING THE WWW. I came to the web with an itch to build content, and I needed to understand the technology utilized to build the Internet. Early on, I confronted the question about whether it was necessary to use the www. in my website URL. It really began to be a concern to me when ...

Are you ready for a web site? Not sure what to look for? Use this article to help you determine the best hosting company for your site. Growth Is this a company you can grow with vs. having to change companies when you outgrow the service? Customer Service Many people start with a lost co...

Is your website listed on search engines? When people search for you, does your site show up on page 1 or page 20 of the search engine results? Optimizing your site to get it ranked highly on the search engines can be a complicated subject. To simplify things, it's helpful to first understand...