Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to make. If your business domain name isn’t easy to remember or easy to spell, then you will lose traffic. If you lose traffic you lose sales.. no sales = no revenue etc., etc. Choosing a [...]
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SEO For Dummies
Editor note: This is a guest post by Paul Savage of BlackDog (more info below article body). The purpose of this article is not to insult you by calling you a dummy for reading this, in fact I have no idea what your SEO acumen is, but hopefully after reading this you will have a [...]
Awstats Now Available On Linux!
Image by blacknight via Flickr We’re delighted to finally be able to offer Awstats statistics for all our shared Linux based hosting accounts (it’s also available for Windows). If your site is hosted on any of our shared Linux hosting accounts you can now setup Awstats via your control panel NB: Stats will not be [...]
Beware of Google Scams
Several of our clients have been in touch with us recently regarding yet another scam. At least one company is targetting small businesses offering them “guaranteed first page position on Google”. To make matters worse they’re also claiming to have a special relationship with Google. Now don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of reputable [...]
SEO Competition Winner Announced
Remember the SEO competition from a while back? We said we’d offer the winner two things: Hosting Domain (boring details on previous post) Damien announced the winner yesterday, so congratulations to Paul Savage!
SEO Competition Fun And Games
SEO (search engine optimisation) competitions, where the entrants have to get their site to rank for a random keyphrase, are a bit of fun. They also allow people to show off their SEO skills. Damien Mulley posted earlier today about an SEO competition he’s running, but as he hadn’t mentioned any prizes I thought we [...]
Sixy – Directory of ipv6 Enabled Sites
If your site is accessible over ipv6 or you simply want to find other ipv6 enabled sites then a new web directory called Sixy might be of interest. Unlike a lot of more traditional directories Sixy uses tags to categorise sites and as a site owner you can specify which ones you’d like associated with [...]
Developing An Online Brand – Get the Domains!
If you’re going to focus all your energies and money on developing your online presence then there are some really simple things that you need to get right. If you were to rent a small shop in the centre of any town or city you would have to pay “top dollar”, but if your main [...]
Making the Most of your dotmobi site
Over the course of the next few weeks I’ll be doing an occasional series of posts on making the most of your dotmobi domain. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas that they’d like to share please let me know! The topics I intend to cover will include things like building a site, checking it, [...]
The Downside To Changing Domains
I mentioned not so long ago that we were going to be doing some rebranding. You’ll see this happening slowly until the new site launches, then it will be a little bit faster. The kind of things that are going to change on the outside are: Email signatures Web addresses The logo’s colour scheme Email [...]
Search Engine Tools Now Available
If your site can’t be found easily, then it might as well not exist. A couple of months ago I posted a couple of tips on search engine optimisation (SEO) which you may have found useful. To supplement this we’ve now added a set of SEO tools to our linux hosting control panel: Simply click [...]
Domain Names – Keep it Simple
Choosing the right domain name for your online presence can be a daunting task. With some advance planning you can make it simpler.
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