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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

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I’m talking about the free web-based website hosts. decided to shut the site down – for good. And all those people who had websites hosted by Geocities had to move their sites, or lose them. It costs less than $20 per year for a domain name and less than $15 per month for good hosting. Not all of them.

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Who Is Your Host Neighbor?

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Web hosting is a necessity for online marketing. One of the important factors to consider when setting up a hosting account is who your neighbors are. Your choice of hosting companies has a lot to do with that reputation. Most hosting companies offer a cheap hosting plan where you share server space with other customers.

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Do You Understand The Basics Of Server Side SEO

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Server side refers to the servers that your website sits on, much of which is controlled by your web hosting company. Shared servers (where you share a server with other web sites) are more affected than those with dedicated servers, however, they too do need an understanding of the basics of server side SEO.

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WordPress Hack Directed At.com Blogs

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The former hosts blogs much like Blogger.com. If you installed WordPress on a server at your hosting company (Hostgator, BlueHost, SBM, etc.), What you should know is that there are two WordPresses. There’s WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The latter is a software that you download and install on your own server.

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Your First Small Business Step To Online Marketing

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Advice I’ve given in the past is the same advice that most small business marketing consultants give: Buy a domain name, pay for hosting, set up a website, etc. Preferably, you’ll do enough research on the social media sites before joining one to figure out where your target audience has a large presence. Just a little.

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7 Sources of Evergreen Content For Your Website

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Others are going to be created as users get involved with your site. Pick the brains of your best customer service people to find out what people call about and put the answers in an easily read format on your site. Host an online forum for people looking for ways to use your products and keep the archives searchable and available.

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Content Marketing Caution

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Lizerbram, “DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) states that if you own the copyright to a piece of content, such as written copy, images, or videos, and someone uses it online without your permission, you can send a takedown notice to the hosting service. The service will then take down the offending content.

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