Who Owns Your Website?

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Website ownership is a serious issue. As part of being an SEO consultant, I’m frequently asked to conduct SEO Audits on potential client’s websites. Amongst sundry other tasks, I always check to see who the legal owner of the site is. With surprising regularity, it turns out NOT to be the guy who commissioned the report, and who mistakenly thinks HE (or she) is the rightful owner!  There is more than one aspect to this… Who is the Domain Name Registrant? Each country has rules governing … [Read more...]

Web Wide Hosting

Mate, if I wasn't a believer in your abilities before (which I am), I sure as hell would be by now! :-) :-) You should use this guy (www.motorhomes-buy-sell-rent.com) as a reference site :-) Anyway, regarding the upgrade, do you want to broach it with him, or are you happy to leave it to me? Let me know soonest... Cheers, Jon Walker www.Web-Wide-Hosting.co.nz … [Read more...]

Web Wide Hosting

Hiya Ben I've stretched his bandwidth limit temporarily, but realistically we're going to have to ask him to upgrade. It's looking as though he'll hit 3-4 gigs by the end of the month! It seems that he is a victim of your success. :-) I'm just looking at his AWStats and he's been averaging 100MB of hits a day all month! He's taken nearly 2000 unique visitors this month and nearly 4000 visits! It' basically DOUBLED on last months total figures and we're only 2/3 of the way through the … [Read more...]

Content Management Systems – Business Suicide in 2007

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One of the fastest way to minimise your chances of web business success is to use a Content Management System (CMS). There are a number of open-source CMS products, such as phpWS, Mambo, Plone, Drupal, Geeklog, Siteframe, and phpNuke etc and a plethora of proprietary CMS products espoused by individual web design companies as the answer everything from lack of HTML knowledge to rapid shopping cart deployment etc. Expressing this in simple terms, its said that possibly as high as 80% of … [Read more...]

Website Hosting Location vs. Customer Location

Web Server Location & SEO

Server location and its importance to your website rankings, traffic and consequent success is another thing the web hosting company forgot to tell you about... An aspect overlooked by many site owners, and one that gets minimal coverage in web design or SEO articles etc, is . Most articles are written by web design & SEO practitioners in the USA, and are therefore written from "The Inside, Looking Out." However, if you happen to be like many site owners in the world, "On The Outside, … [Read more...]

Best Practice Website Design Criteria

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1.1 Introduction Should you be contemplating a new web site, or the redesign of an older site, there are many issues you need to consider. High in the priority list at the outset should be search engine rankings, and design of the site to maximise the site’s potential web profile is crucial to success. A key design criteria should be to ensure that the web site, as launched, will require minimal remedial search engine optimisation. In the process of site creation there is almost always … [Read more...]