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With Google's algorithm constantly evolving, changing and growing it can be stressful determining what factors are important in regards to your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Some aspects are obvious and...
May 9, 2016
If you are a small company, particularly one with a global audience of potential customers, social media marketing is important. For web hosts and cloud companies, it's vitally important. The typical web host customer...
April 27, 2016
WordCamp London 2016 is in the history books. Over this past weekend, hundreds of WordPress enthusiasts, hosting providers, developers and designers descended on London Metropolitan University to meet, learn, and grow...
April 12, 2016
Although the world might have gone mobile, you still find the PC at the core of most businesses. Your accountants still use Excel and your sales team still produces PowerPoint-based presentations. As everyone...
April 1, 2016
Let’s face it. Running a small business – regardless of whether it is a web hosting business or not – is hard work. You have enough on your plate. You are doing the marketing, setting up the products, getting...
March 16, 2016
As a web host, you might have set up thousands of blogs for your customers but never once considered needing one yourself. Why, you might ask yourself, do you need a blog? Well, the immediate answer is fairly simple
February 10, 2016
One of the key buzzwords at the moment is the curiously entitled 'Internet of Things' - usually abbreviated to 'IoT'. The term was introduced in the 1990s by a founder of MITs' Auto-ID Center, Kevin Ashton, who was part...
February 10, 2016
Choosing the right hosting provider for your business can be a harrowing experience for anyone who is not well versed with server infrastructure and its subtleties. Here are guidelines that will assist you in choosing...
January 20, 2016
A new year is upon us - a time that energizes us and strengthens our resolve to do something more with this coming year than we did with the last. For web hosts and other small businesses it's a time for renewed...
January 5, 2016
If you have always wanted to read a book about overcoming procrastination, but never go around to it, read this article instead…
January 4, 2016
It's the same every year ... Millions and millions of people worldwide set out their New Year resolutions at the end of December. Of course, on a personal front it's always something like 'lose weight' or 'make more...
December 29, 2015
Let’s face it – a lot of companies are offering very similar products and services, and that’s especially true in the web hosting industry. Simply do a search for ‘shared web hosting’ and up comes a seemingly...
December 2, 2015
Dedicated hosting is similar to managed hosting in that the service provider leases a particular server to just one client. However, the chief difference lies in the fact that these servers come pre configured and you...
November 19, 2015
Small businesses used to be easy to run. You set up shop, you placed an advert in your local newspaper, and you waited for business to come your way, and that was it. Unfortunately, the advent of the Internet changed...
November 6, 2015
Finding your first host can be intimidating. Although hosting will seem simple once you’ve been around awhile, at first it’s all very opaque. Part of the problem is simply that there’s a lot of misinformation out...
September 21, 2015
Lucky for us Google is continually tweaking and enhancing its search solution. That means we can refine our searches and pick up the information we truly need rather than wade through oceans of website pages. However,...
August 14, 2015
Building a website is generally considered a technical process that a coder or website designer should manage. Many people think it's a simple process... It's about impressing people with graphics and cool effects that...
August 3, 2015
Search Engine Optimization (otherwise known as SEO) is a series of techniques that help websites achieve a higher rank in Google's search results. Obviously, the higher you are in Google's list of sites for a particular...
August 3, 2015
Many people are a bit disparaging as far as Google Sheets and Google Docs are concerned. 'They are no Microsoft Office' people say. Well that's true - because unlike the online edition of Microsoft Office, Google Sheets...
June 26, 2015
To say that Google Search is a time saver is something of an understatement. Without it many people wouldn't be able to find the products and services they need, nor would they be able to plan a night out, or indeed...
June 24, 2015
Gmail is, very probably, the best cloud-based email solution currently available. More than any other system, Gmail has been responsible for the death of the email client installed on your computer hard drive. It is...
June 10, 2015
I have had a number of careers in my working life including freelance Content Writer for company websites. I have seen countless websites created and what I have learned over the years is that on most occasions website...
June 9, 2015
As a company, data and intelligence are key to your business process. You need to know who your customers are, what they need and when they want it, and you need to know all that information NOW. Collecting data can...
June 9, 2015
Obviously, a good domain name is the heart and soul of a great website. It can at once express the identity of your site, its mood, and identify the content visitors can expect to see. A good domain name attracts your...
May 21, 2015
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is both an art and a science. Obviously, the higher up Google's search rank you are, the more opportunity there is for people to see your listing and therefore visit you site, and then...
April 29, 2015
The word 'Big Data' has become very popular but its real meaning is often confused. Basically we can say that the word “Big Data” is related to the way to use big volumes of data in constant increase using brand new...
April 23, 2015
On April 21, 2015, something very special indeed will take place - a well publicized update of Google's algorithm. Google's algorithm updates are some of the world's best-kept secrets. Traditionally, people...
April 20, 2015
Brought to us by Apple and Microsoft in the 1980s, the impact of the Graphical User Interface (or GUI) was undeniable. Prior to GUIs computer programs had been driven by inputting terms and bits of code to achieve a...
April 9, 2015
Internet technologies have penetrated into all areas of our life and changed it dramatically. With their help, people are able to implement most of their activities from reading favorite books and newspapers,...
February 11, 2015
In a recent article, Using Google Forms as an Email Form Solution for Your Website, we looked at how Google Apps' Google Forms solution can be used to create an email form for your website.
January 26, 2015
