Hosting and PR
Hosting is very important for your business as this ensures that your website is visible to your visitors.
This means that not just any hosting will do, there are certain things you should be looking at when you are ready to make a choice about hosting. Reliable hosting will make a difference to your Page Rank.
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Tips for choosing a reliable hosting company:
• Contract Terms: Try not to get tied up with a 6 month or yearly contract. You do not know when you first begin how good the hosting will be so it is best to always start with a month-to-month basis.
• Make sure there are no penalties if you wish to leave.
• Set up fees: A good hosting company will not charge you a set up fee
• Backing up files: Will your files be backed up by your new host, if so how long do they keep them and how often do they do back up?
• Be careful to check exactly what your price includes and that the package is adequate for your business.
• How much space do you need: 5GB is usually the amount an average business needs
• Do they have a Cpanel?
• Price: $5.94-$19.95 is an average monthly fee for hosting. Assess what your website needs.
• Research the company well before signing anything Check their servers if possible and any testimonials
• Support: that is fast and if possible 24/7
• Make sure they have a fast connection
• Check how many email addresses they allocate to you.
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Tips for changing your host:
• Do your research into the new company
• Do not let your old company know about your move until it is completed and everything is up and running.
• Use both hosts
• Back up your files: Be sure that you back up all files
• Change your nameserver:
• When everything is up and running, make a clean break.
How hosting can affect my ranking:
• Continuous technical difficulty and down time: This will have a direct bearing on your Page Rank. This is because the Googlebots will not be able to crawl your site when it is down and this can result in incomplete information in the Google database. In turn this can lead to downgrading of your Page Rank.
• Your credibility will suffer: not only can Google penalize you thinking your sites quality is not as good as it could be. You will also lose the trust of your potential customers and when you do that your competition will be ready to take up the slack and steal those leads from right under your nose.
• Linking: downtime can affect linking: other webmasters will not want to link to sites that are continuously offline
• All your promotions will suffer: resulting in loss of Page Rank
Use these tips to help you choose a good reliable host. In this way you can ensure the stability of your website and your business.
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