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The Top 5 Secrets of Professional Online Video
Online video is becoming more popular and fundamental to business success every day. YouTube.com is actually getting more search traffic than Yahoo!’s search engine. It is important that you feel comfortable producing your own media. Depending on your goals, you can produce a great video without spending a lot of money and without a professional [...]
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How to Market Your Website Online – Part II of II
SEO stands for search engine optimization. Search engines attempt to satisfy you (the searchers) by providing the most relevant results based on your keyword search. If you can easily find what you’re looking for from the search engine results, consider yourself a satisfied customer and you’ll likely return to that search engine in the future. [...]
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How to Market Your Website Online – Part I of II
If you're looking to get more traffic to your website, here are 4 different ways to get that traffic increase and effectively market your site online. Post I of II.
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Online Success Requires Excellent Web Hosting
If you have read or watched the news in recent months you have probably heard something about someone getting rich using Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. I’ll save discussions on social media success for later but I will tell you that to make money on your site you need a lot of visitors; and that [...]
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E-commerce checklist
So you are thinking of setting up an e-commerce store There are many things to take into account when setting up an online store front. Below is a list of some of the major items. You will want to thoughtfully consider and research each of these options before beginning the actual work of getting your [...]
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Holiday Special
Join us in celebrating the holidays by signing up for our new Holiday Special. This is your opportunity not only to sign up for a great plan but to give something back to those less fortunate. WestHost has partnered with the FamilyGivingTree.org this holiday season by donating a gift to a child when you activate [...]
Optimizing Your Blog for Search Engines
There are many mysteries surrounding how search engine rankings work and what really boosts your Web site’s visibility when it comes to search engine listings, but most industry experts believe that all search engines love Web sites that are updated often. This is why blogs can be so successful at generating lots of Web traffic. [...]
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Getting started with Web site optimization
As you might imagine, as a Web hosting company, WestHost receives requests all the time from prospective and existing hosting clients for help on how to market their Web site. Attracting exposure for your Web site comes in a variety of formats. On the most basic level though, traffic in any form can really be [...]
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