I’ve always believed that SEO starts with a domain name, it is the first ingredient in driving traffic to your web site and making it successful.  Exact keyword domains have its advantages, having said that, abuse has its disadvantages. While I’m a fan of hyphenated domains as mentioned in a previous post: Are Hyphenated Domain Names Dead

The study, from web host Fasthosts Internet, interviewed 1495 firms, found that a worrying number still prioritise letters received over emails, and may also be alienating customers by losing emails, with 1 in 3 mislaying emailed orders at least once a quarter. Two thirds have received no training at all in the use of business email.  In worrying contrast, a further survey of 1400 UK adults finds that 69 per cent expect an email to be valued equally to a letter. Whilst over half of consumers (54 per cent) believe they would spend more with email-efficient firms, only 29 per cent of businesses recognise this.   Furthermore, 45 per cent of Britons now expect firms to be able to email documents such as quotes and brochures, whilst 61 per cent of companies still do not offer the option.  Data from Fasthosts’ ‘Business Email Attitudes’ study finds that a significant number of UK businesses are out of step with consumer expectations for email communication.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: VaultLogix Integrated with ConnectWise, Improving Backup and Recovery Implementation for MSPs News: The 451 Group Names Director of Cloud Research Program News: Managed Web Host ServInt Joins The Linux Foundation, In Support of the Open Source Community (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Exposing some hypocrisy among small and medium-sized businesses, a new global survey has found that SMBs are not acting on their concerns over security vulnerabilities through employees’ social networking activities. According to a survey of 200 SMBs across the globe released Tuesday by spam and web filtering software provider SpamTitan Technologies ( www.spamtitan.com ), nearly every one allowed Internet access and some social networking applications in the workplace. More than three quarters said Web filtering was important.

Web Host News – Gloucester, UK – Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, today launched a brand new range of premium-quality shared web hosting packages that represent the company’s latest step in its drive to raise the standard of UK web hosting.  The new packages combine huge quotas of web space with new professional-quality web building and monitoring tools, and Fasthosts’ unlimited website traffic.  As the market for hosted solutions continues to grow apace, the new hosting range is designed to exceed the growing technical demands of businesses and IT professionals alike.

Web Host News – Gloucester, UK – Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, today launched a brand new range of premium-quality shared web hosting packages that represent the company’s latest step in its drive to raise the standard of UK web hosting.  The new packages combine huge quotas of web space with new professional-quality web building and monitoring tools, and Fasthosts’ unlimited website traffic.  As the market for hosted solutions continues to grow apace, the new hosting range is designed to exceed the growing technical demands of businesses and IT professionals alike. Fasthosts’ new range of Personal Hosting packages comprises of the Standard package (5GB web space) and the Premium package (25GB web space).  Both solutions include all the tools needed to maintain a professional-quality website including SiteBuilder, Blog tool and MatrixStats.  The Premium package boasts 10 FTP accounts, 10 x 1GB anti- virus/SPAM mailboxes and 1 free .UK domain.  Fasthosts’ new Business Hosting Packages are the Business Standard package (25GB web space) and Business Premium package (50GB web space).  The flagship Business Premium delivers unlimited FTP accounts, up to 10 MYSQL databases and Load Balancing – which shares visitors over multiple web servers to maximise the uptime and speed of a website.  All hosting packages are available in either Linux or Windows at no additional cost, an approach unique to Fasthosts. A prominent feature is the powerful template-driven SiteBuilder tool, which benefits from 98 brand new design templates, faster editing and publishing, new site add-ons, RSS and Site Search.  The tool is a highly effective way to build an impressive website within minutes, and is particularly well suited to small businesses.  As eCommerce continues to be a key issue for all sizes of UK business, Fasthosts today launches a highly effective solution for starting an online store.  The new optional SiteBuilder eShop, included within the Business Premium package, offers the functionality of specialist eCommerce software with unmatched ease of use and convenience of SiteBuilder.  The shop pages are seamlessly integrated within an existing SiteBuilder website.  Advanced features include unlimited product categories, 2-click PayPal integration, multiple currency support and advanced image handling

15 April 2010, Gloucester, UK: Fasthosts Internet Ltd, (www.fasthosts.co.uk), a leading web hosting provider, today launched a brand new range of premium-quality shared web hosting packages that represent the companys latest step in its drive to raise the standard of UK web hosting. Priced from only 4.69/month incl. VAT, and currently offered with a 50 per cent discount for 3 months, the new packages combine huge quotas of web space with new professional-quality web building and monitoring tools, and Fasthosts unlimited website traffic.

One of the most important aspects of taking care of a site’s search ‘appropriateness’ is knowing what can get you penalized by Google (or any other search engine for that matter).  Knowing how to assess the situation correctly so that you can tell if you have just been served a penalty can help you significantly to get the site back at the top for your search terms. Unfortunately, it’s a sure thing that Google is not going to publish the criteria it uses for deciding who gets penalized

One of our latest development projects has been experiencing phenomenal growth and we are now looking for a couple of salespeople to help bring advertisers to the site. OilPrice.com is continuing to grow at a very fast pace and the interesting thing is that very little of our traffic comes from Search Engines – the majority comes from referring sites such as business Insider, Forbes, Zerohedge, Roibini.   More on the opportunity below…….

The fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company Gossimer has Announced a change in its Add Grace Period Policy that will be effective from March 11, 2010.

One of my IP’s has been listed on the Spam Cannibal DNSBL, apparently because they consider my PTR ( host -203-98-84-115.dynamicinternet.com.au) to be.

See the article here:
Spam Cannibal – What a Joke! – Web Hosting Talk Australia