Website Hosting vs Managed Services

1. Page Speed; your website MUST load fast on all devices. Slow loading websites cause people to leave, and search engines don't like that. Fast loading pages makes your website more relevent, which means search engines will give it a higher level of importance.

2. Keywords and Placement; Keywords, the words people use to find the products, services, or information in search engines, need to be found in the page title of each page, the meta description, and the meta keywords tags. For Google, the meta keyword tag has been discontinued, but it's still valuable for other search engines. Avoid over-using keywords on your pages. Make sure to include the keyword for the page close to the top of the page, and within the body content of the page.

3. Page content; pages need to be information rich. Write a couple paragraphs of text on each page. As a rule of thumb don't try to create what you think a search engine wants, but just give your customers a good description of your product. Use different descriptive words that support the keywords.

4. Pictures; Use pictures but don't use too many. Add in keywords in the alt text tag describing your photo. This can help a search engine understand what the image is about. Optimizing the image also means compressing the image and saving it in a web friendly format. You don't want each page to be too large in file size due to a 300MB photo. JPG or GIF at 72 dpi usually. This will give you a smaller file size and faster page load. Most importantly, search engines will factor it into your rankings. Don't worry about pic sizes within a gallery though as long as your gallery has it's own page.

5. Video content; everyone likes video, including search engines. The top search engines even have seperate tabs for video searches. Advancements in technology have made it possible for some search engines to decifer the words being spken in video, so be sure to use keywords when you're speaking. You should also use keywords in video descriptions and titles to help search engines.

6. Links; Place links on your pages that take people to the most important pages of your website. Search engine crawlers act a lot like people, and they follow links from your pages to other pages on your website. If a search engine crawler cannot follow a link to another page on your website, it may not every know about that page and even if it does, it may not think it's an important page because there aren't fast and convenient ways to find it. e ages on your different pages. It tells a search engine that each page is important to somebody else and it will index it accordingly. Make your home page function like a site map but try to keep it from looking like typical boring site maps. Since it's our homepage it needs to be inviting to visitors.

A note on hosting links for others; in a general sense, it's my opinion not to allow other links like google ads and such on your own site. You will send your customers away from your site, possibly to a competitor.

7. Add your website to Google Search Console. The process places code on your website and verifies you as the owner to Google. That can help make your website more relevent and provide some information that can help ensure the site is running properly on Google's system.

8. Add Your XML Sitemap into Search Console; An XML sitemap file containing all of the url's on your website can be added to Search COnsole. This gives Google another way to find pages on your website and adds more credibility and relevence.

9. Be Careful When Changing Your Website Content! Any changes you make to your site will take time to take effect within search engine rankings. Most people make the mistake of making lots of changes and checking on a regular basis and not finding any changes or improvements and giving up, or hiring someone that doesn't have a clue about SEO, unlike Kevin Gannon with TheNetCorp.com who does. Make changes, but always remember to keep keywords in the content. If they aren't there, your page won't be reelvent for that phrase. In just a few short months you'll see your "keywords" rising in the search engines.

10. Site platform; use a partner like WebsiteForge, if you know nothing about the 'behind the scene' coding and what search engines like and dislike. WebsiteForge will keep this up to date for you. This by far is the biggest element, perhaps the largest factor and the average person has no control over it, only the professionals like WebsiteForge. I whole heartedly believe that WebsiteForge will help make your website succesful in the search engines and if you are successful there, you will be successful bringing the money to the bank!

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Website Hosting vs Managed Services

November 17th, 2009 at 2:59 pm star

Website Hosting vs Managed Services

Hi Everyone,

I have to say... there is a lot of confusion about Hosting vs Managed Services which is what WebsiteForge offers and others do not.

Hosting of a website is no more than providing space for your website to reside. It also only allows so much space and traffic to that space which is called Bandwidth. Typically if you go over the alloted Bandwidth limit you are charged more money just like cellphone service otherwise your site can not be viewed.

Some hosting companies provide other services like Backup Services. Backing up your website is always recommended so you don't lose your data. Hosting companies differ, some only allow you to do the backup and it's not automatic, while others will automatically backup your site every 7 or 30 days or some set period of time.

Website Hosting can run anywhere from $4.95 - $10K a month or more depending on the services you purchase.

There is also a lot of confusion so always ask the company that is doing the hosting, "What is included in this price"?

With WebsiteForge we provide the following Managed Services including Hosting http://www.websiteforge.com/48.html?m20:cat=managed-services-hosting.

Managed Services, Support & Hosting

Includes 1/HR Month of Remote Hands. Anything you need done just give it to us and we will do it for you. Remote Hands includes ROLLOVER MINUTES so you can accumulate the time and never lose it and includes CASH-IN VALUE towards other services like a new design, flash, graphics. etc.

Managed Services - Fortune 100 Hosting Platform

Seven Clustered Redundant Servers - You don't have to worry about a server failure. Seven Redundant servers mean that even if one fails the other servers will pick up the slack and make sure your site continues to run.

Every 4 Hours Automatic Backups on all 7 servers along with a copy of the Backup stored at a secondary location for extra security and peace of mind you'll never lose your data.

Security - Locked Down Code Hacker Prevention System w/5 Levels of Security. No other hosting company on the market offers this feature.

Five Tier-1 OC-12 Backbone Connections with Unlimited Bandwidth - It's like recruiting the "Fantastic Five" of internet connectivity. Think of five HUGE pipelines provided by SBC, Time Warner, UUNet, Quest, and Sprint. These are the companies that will connect your customers to your web site 24/7/365

Third Party Performance Monitoring - We pay professional monitoring companies to have your web site monitored every 5 minutes to make sure things are always running smoothly. Monitoring is done from several locations across the globe.

On Site Technicians - Our hardware is maintained by on-site technicians that are there 24/7/365 to make sure any hardware repairs are done immediately. Of course you won't notice because our triple redundant servers will keep your site running.

High Security Data Center - Our data center is locked down with key code and hand scanner security access.
Your data is completely safe!

Hardened Linux Operating Systems - It's simply a fact of life that Windows systems are a constant target for hackers, nasty worms and viruses. We rely on hardened Linux based servers to provide you the very best reliability available

Customer Support M-F 9AM-7PM EST - Online & Phone Support provided to any any questions you may have.

Technical Support 24/7/365 - With WebsiteForge, you don't have to worry about technical details.We manage the hosting for you without costly hourly or per-incident charges.

Unlimited Software Updates & Upgrades - Over 300 Updates & Upgrades every year as WebsiteForge invest over $200,000 back into the system on such improvements as; hand-held devices, browser & system compatibility issues, additional functionality, content management tool updates and features, new tools and software, etc.

Unlimited Bandwidth & Data Transfer - Never have to worry about having your servers crash due to traffic limits.

Unlimited Disc Space Storage - Store unlimited amounts of data on your site, including, pages, text, video, audio, products, etc.

Much More!

E-Mail Solution

50 POP 3 E-Mail Accounts with 30M of storage each.

Spam Control

Virus Scanning

Online Webmail Access

Grey Listing

EV 256 Bit SSL Security Certificate

Renewal Included in the Monthly Managed Services Fee. Extended Validation SSL with 256 Bit Encryption. This service exceed New Standards places by all the Credit Card Companys this year.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Hard Coded

WebsiteForge is the only website design company that has this unique feature. Your site will have META TAGS on every page and product on your website. Your site will also be Search Engine Friendly (SEF), that allows the Search Engines to find every single word, product and service on your site. But the KEY FEATURE is our Hard Coded SEO Software on your site that is set up like the Search Engines want to see it. The same Coding sites like E-Bay and Amazon have, the kind of programming that would cost $10,000-$60,000 for you to do if you hired an SEO Expert to do it. This software also includes an admin area where you can manage your own SEO campaign with out the expensive cost of SEO or a PPC campaign like Google Adwords.

Unlimited Support

Training Webinars

Online Documentation & Support

Help File

Video Tutorials

Customer Support M-F 9AM-7PM EST - Online & Phone Support provided to any any questions you may have.

Technical Support 24/7/365 - With WebsiteForge, you don't have to worry about technical details.We manage the hosting for you without costly hourly or per-incident charges.

Remote Hands - 1/hr/mo x 12/hr/yr of anything you need done to the site, rolled over if you don't use the time and you can cash unused time towards a new design, additional graphics, flash, etc. (Valued at $600/yr)

Site Coming Soon Page

Display a Site Coming Soon Page until site is ready to launch.

Content Management Tool

You have the ability to create unlimited content pages upon completion of our online & phone training webinar, or view our online video library at your own pace.

Domain Name

FREE Domain Name Web URL Address; yourbusinessname.com

Website Hit Statistic Tool

Professional 20 page report detailing who found your site, where they came from and where did they go.

Create Unlimited Forms

Create custom forms

Information can be stored onsite and downloaded into an Excel Spreadsheet for database management

Newsletter Sign-Up & Creation Tool

Collect vital information

Create custom Newsletters

Create a huge database of potential customers

Mass E-Mail Marketing Tool

Collect E-Mail addresses and information

Market to new and potential customers

Pop-Up Marketing Tool

Create your own Pop-Up messages on your site. Great for promoting a sales campaign or gathering e-mails.

Add Unlimited Links

Create as many outbound links to your site using our Content Management Tool. Great for building your own SEO campaign, referral page, advertising and more.

E-Bay Publishing

Publish your products directly to E-Bay through this easy to use Listing Tool. (ecommerce only)

Copy Protection Feature

Make sure competitors can not copy your site or steal your images.

Google Analytics

Generates detailed statistics about the visitors to your website.

If you have any questions about the services we provide, please call me!

Thanks,

Douglas A. Marks
Website Marketing Consultant
Website - www.websiteforge.com
Business - (888) 558.2446  Ext. 208
Fax - (517) 338-5064

Business Hours: (Monday - Friday) 10 AM - 6 PM Eastern Standard Time

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David Rael says:

November 18th, 2009 at 12:31 am star

Thanks for the info Douglas.

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