Category: Hosting Related

October 28, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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Hi Folks. Have you checked your website rankings in google this week? The recent ‘Penguin 3.0’ update, also called a refresh, has just been completed. Supposedly only 1% or so of search queries are affected by this recent Google search index update. Simply, Google support ( support.google.com ) recommends avoiding the following linking techniques: Excessive link exchanges Buying or selling links Using automation to create links Low-quality directory or bookmark site links Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites So if you haven’t participated in ‘link spamming’, you should not need to worry, but it is always good to verify anyways, and perform any cleanup that may be necessary to improve your website’s search ranking. read_more We recommend the following free online tools to help diagnose your website’s relation to Google’s new update and guidelines. http://www.analyzebacklinks.com/ http://moz.com/tools/seo-toolbar http://www.ahrefs.com http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/ & http://www.traffictravis.com/ From our review of these tools, we recommend you try Traffic Travis first. Traffic Travis offers: Keyword Tracking Backlink checker for individual pages Competition Analysis Find Keyword ranking based on different geo specific search engine Page rank checker for Individual pages Sitemap Support Domain name research SEO warning for individual pages Filters to refine your report Adsense finder Keyword research We're always interested in hearing about your experiences with various tools and strategies employed in your search engine optimization efforts. Whether you’ve encountered challenges or celebrated victories, your insights are valuable to us. If you find yourself seeking professional guidance or are overwhelmed with the SEO landscape, we’re here to assist. We offer affordable SEO link building services tailored to enhance your website’s authority and visibility effectively. Our experienced team employs innovative strategies, ensuring quality backlinks that boost your site's ranking and traffic. Moreover, we pride ourselves on offering the best white hat SEO services in Canada. We adhere to ethical and effective SEO practices, ensuring that your website not only ascends in rankings but maintains its position, offering long-term benefits. Feel free to reach out to us for personalized advice, or explore...

October 14, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related

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On a Wednesday afternoon in the first week of October 2014 in Palo Alto California, some of biggest names in technology, together many less famous others, were talking with harsh words in response to the ongoing US government surveillance scandal; during a meeting to discuss the potential of the ever creeping state funded spying activities. The event included Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Microsoft's Brad Smith, and Dropbox representative Ramsey Homsany, and a long list of others. Breaking the Internet? They spoke their thoughts on the matter to a Senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden. Google's CEO warned that the impact of all the hyper-surveillance is “severe and getting worse." Fired NSA employee Edward Snowden exposed the US government’s creepy and secretive multi-billion dollar surveillance activities; by coping thousands of official documents (perhaps to a tiny memory card) that clearly outlined the mass surveillance of regular internet user to be far more extensive than the ever-gullible population were aware of. "We're going to wind up breaking the Internet," Google's chief added. World-wide effects and ramifications on the US economy The concerned interests focused on the sequence of issues... read_more after of the uncovering of the massively illegal and unconstitutional mass spying on all of our digital 'effects'. They talked about how some governments are already seeking to make technology companies build their data centers <i>within</i> their borders in order to improve security (from the NSA spies and peeping-toms). The tech companies generally said, if most countries end up following that path the costs would be astronomical would without any doubt damage the US economy. Example fallout from it all has already hit American companies such as Verizon; which recently lost its contract with the German government over concerns about network security. Snowden’s documents pointed out that more than 100 world leaders were swept in for surveillance by the NSA, with German leader Angela Merkel as a leading example. Lack of trust in Ecommerce? Bradly Smith, of Microsoft, raised concerns at the meeting, stating that "in the same way as someone wouldn’t leave their money with a bank they don’t trust, nor would they use an Internet they don’t trust." "The trust element...

September 30, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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Dear 4GoodHosting customers and visitors , We have replaced the “Attracta” search engine optimization tool with a more modern and effective “seo” optimizer for your website. With this new included tool, MarketGoo, you will be able to get your website ranked faster and higher; helping you with your overall website marketing. We hope that you decide to take advantage of the new service. As with most new services we offer, this one comes with your hosting package at no additional charge. How does the Marketgoo application work? MarketGoo's unique toolset will analyze your website regularly. It will suggest from an assortment of about 200 actions and recommendations; which will be tailored specific to your website and industry. So every single task that you complete while using MarketGoo will be driving your website closer to online success. Where will you be able to find it? If you remember seeing the “Attracta” icon, you will now see “MarketGoo” there instead, in the “Marketing tools” section. How can it benefit you / your website? The Marketgoo application helps you market your website and enables you to improve your website ranking in google and other search engines by “optimizing” your website's Search Engine Visibility, Link Building, and Social Media marketing; and it also benchmarks your site against your competitors. It will help you perfect your website's structure and content and to help you with promoting the relevant keywords associated to your business. read_more Using MarketGoo SEO tools, you will be guided on submitting your website into Google. It will optimize your website to rank in the highest position attainable for the particular keywords that most people use to look your type of business. You will be able to easily and frequently test your results at Google, Yahoo and Bing. Marketgoo crawls all over your website and generates a list of optimization tasks which in turn will help you achieve your marketing objectives. It will tell you what needs to be done, and what you or your editor/webmaster will need to edit the html of your various webpages. MarketGoo's Link Building tools show you links that your ranking competitors have. This way you can at...

September 25, 2014

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Dear Customer and/or blog visitor, Please do see this important video presentation. It is certainly worth the time it takes us to wake up to what has really being going on: http://vimeo.com/106681730 For your information, when people send you email to your 4GoodHosting hosted website account (for example: me@my-very-own-site.ca ), or when you send email to another person at another 4GoodHosting hosted website, your email conversation is 'really' or 'actually' "private" - just like real snail-mail used to be. We actually do honor your right to control your private information and to guard it from information wholesaling. We don't look, share, or sell any of your private information. We believe in doing this, and we base our business model on respecting your wishes. But when you email somebody at a @gmail.com account, then your email is definitely wide open to at least google (and who-knows-who-else ultimately gets a copy of it from them throughout the future). Basically if you have a conversation with somebody using google mail (gmail, or yahoo mail, etc.) then your conversation is being recorded for prying eyes and will be potentially/possibly used to profile you to interested parties throughout the future. That's just one point of this eye-opening presentation. We are recommending this video been seen by you, because we believe in the old-fashioned concepts of personal privacy. If you feel the same way, please share the link of this article with your friends. https://4goodhosting.com/blog/value-privacy/ read_more Thank you for your patronage and time reading this.

September 23, 2014

Hosting Related

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Hey 4GoodHosting customers and visitors. Here is a topic that we haven't really advertised before, but we decided to write this article about online gaming. The expanding universe of online gaming is certainly becoming more popular with no end in sight. Perhaps you are familiar (or an expert) with one or some of the following popular online games. Just scan over the following alphabetical list: Alien Swarm, America's Army Proving Grounds, Arma 3, Battlefield 1942 & 2142, Battlefield 3 & 4, Call of Duty (COD) World at War & Blackops, Contagion, Cube World, Crysis Wars & Crysis 2, Counter Strike - Source & Global Offensive, Day of Defeat, Dayz, Halo,Insurgency, Minecraft, Natural Selection 2, Quake 4, Rust, Sniper Elite v2, Starbound, Team Fortress 2, Terreria, TrackMania 2, Zombie Panic... Perhaps you haven't heard or seen just how popular these games are becoming? Fyi, Microsoft just bought the Minecraft video game company for $2.5Billion dollars(US)? Here is the details about that: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/15797/20140920/microsoft-buys-minecraft-for-2-5-billion-has-markus-notch-persson-done-the-right-thing.htm Mark Perrson, the head of the company, personally raked in 71% of that deal for $1,775,000,000. That's enough to buy 7,100 quarter million dollar homes! Maybe you would like to be part of all this action? What better way to learn about the world of online gaming than setting up your own gaming server! Then you will be able to learn what the game is all about and have fun inviting some others from across the internet onto your gaming server to play with you and each other. Let's look at Minecraft in this example. Many people around the world have set up their own minecraft servers, to support the many millions of people who play this game daily. read_more Minecraft server is a "java" program that runs on server hardware, such as the VPS's (Virtual Private Servers) that we offer. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_server So with a VPS, you can host not only your website, but also a game server that you are the 'god' of, for the virtual world that you are creating. Some people are in the business of selling access to developed game servers that they operate. You can create and advertise such a business model. Here is...

September 19, 2014

Hosting Related

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September 16, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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Most of us already know about backlinks, or links from other websites, and how google currently assigns a quality score to different backlinks. For instance if Google thinks many of your site's backlinks are "spammy" - or not high quality, then they will lower the pagerank score for your whole website. However, if most, or all, your backlinks have good 'link juice', or Google interprets most of them as high quality backlinks - especially from other well known or well trusted websites, then you ranking will improve more than significantly. Internal linking is another subject area. Your internal, or intra-site, links also play a role in how search engines determine the quality of your website, and give a ranking boost to those that follow the below guidelines. Tip A: Internally link your blog content (you really should have a regularly updated blog for many seo benefits) to your service and/or product pages or category pages. Essentially if you publish a new blog article that has something to do with a service or product that you are offering (on the same website; as we are focusing on internal links on your website), then definitely link to the relevant page from your article. This applies to category pages as well. The best method to get higher rankings for certain keywords or phrases is to optimized your link's anchor text for the correct category or product/service page. So, for example, if you offer 'solar shingles' as a product, and you are based in Vancouver, then linking from your article or press release to your product page with the link 'Vancouver solar shingle sales' or 'Vancouver solar shingle installation' will get your product or service page highly ranked for those keywords. When doing so, also try to make it look natural and smooth within the context of your sentence in your article. read_more Tip B: Cross link your product pages with other related products Crosslink related product pages. So say if you sell both trumpets and trombones, make sure that you have some extra links in the content of each related product page crosslinking the pages (not just in your menu atop your page)....

September 2, 2014

Hosting Related, Security, SEO Related

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One effective, yet costly, way to help drive traffic to a website is through the use of PPC (pay per click; google-adwords) advertisements. Yet google has found a way and, by the end of the this month, are enforcing us all to use the new adwords policy termed "Close variant keyword matching". But what does this really mean? This article is not authored by google, therefore we will skim over the positive spin that they would automatically inject into their new campaigns, but rather focus on some potential drawbacks. If you read google's articles about it, it sounds like a good thing; and google plays it up that advertisers already using the new close variant method claim to see an increase in traffic. That may be true: but what is the cost of all the extra ad-impressions being served out?; and perhaps also errant click-thrus by people searching for something 'slightly different '. So say that you have been used to paying google to advertise your site for keywords " women's floral skirts ". So, under the new policy, on he default close-variant matching option "Broad match", web searchers typing in "women's floral shirts " or even "colorful female shirts " might be presented with your ad. Google might *think* there is a possibility that perhaps a typographical error happened when a person typed in 'shirts' and your ad for 'skirts' might pop up. This is just one tiny example, as the total domain of possibilities is immense. Perhaps you can quickly think of your own example(s) too. read_more For a detailed description of the new policy, you can go to these two links that google has presented to the public on this important new topic: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2497836 http://adwords.blogspot.de/2014/08/close-variant-matching-for-all-exact.html ... together with the following exhausting, potentially headache inducing, document that google has published named "Keywords to the Wise-Cultivating Demand with Keyword Strategies": http://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/google-keywords-to-the-wise.pdf 4GoogHosting does not always endorse Google's ranking algorithm adjustments, strategies, and new procedures that we are all occasionally compelled (by Google) to follow. A computer program that google frequently internally hacks on and tweaks is the new judge, jury, and ranking executioner for all of us. The topic...

August 26, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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The advantages of attaching mobile website to your existing website can be highly advantageous in today's mobile-equipped world population. When people are out and about, and certainly at times when someone's home internet service is interrupted, people look up information through their Android smartphones or iPhones. When our friends, family, and neighbors are commuting in their cars or on a train or just walking around downtown - they after often web searching for local, national, or even global businesses. Every day, the number of mobile devices (especially smartphones, android tablets, i-pads) grow rapidly. Literally hundreds of thousands more worldwide are upgrading from old-style cell phones to larger screen smartphones. Most everyone eventually will choose to have the internet in their pocket. And already today every other person doesn't leave home without his/her cell phone, especially teenagers; as everyone knows. Mobile websites are really new marketplaces, like desktop/laptop websites have created; and are always winning new customers to a greater degree each new day. Start here: mobile website builder read_more 68% of private-smartphone users have already purchased products or services (like eBay, Amazon, hotel bookings, AppStore, etc.) with their mobile device. {source, Spiegel Online} From the same poll, 70% - about just as many, of all smartphone users expects a simplified mobile website, or app, when visiting a online business. Nobody really prefers to pinch & zoom, especially when filling out information forms online; when a fingertip can hardly find the submit button. Recently published studies still conclude that current mobile Web user experiences are generally still awkward and governed by small display sizes and the poor design of companies' web sites. You or I, or us, really cannot do much about the physical design of today's smartphones, but small businesses can improve the effectiveness of web sites. The aim must be to design mobile websites to enhance, rather than detract from, the small screen size smartphone experience. Our 4GoodHosting mobile website builder solves all these issues for you in one simplified editor/publisher. You will be able to keep you existing big-screen website, but when someone looks up your site on a mobile device, the mobile website will be displayed automatically....