Archive for January, 2010

How Does Web Hosting Work

Web hosting services are essential to create you footprint on the internet. When it comes to websites that you visit on the internet, the information on these websites has to be uploaded or hosted by servers. There are many companies that own and have created these servers to allow people like you, as well as people from all over the world to upload their information into these servers and create websites. While searching for cheap web hosting there are many options that are available – but comparing prices and services is the best way to ensure that you are able to get the most from web hosting.

Once you have decided which web hosting company that you are going to use to host the website that you have created, there are certain steps that you need to take. The first step is to design that is going to be used on the site. Many websites have hundreds of templates available. The next step is to upload the information that you would like displayed on the site, to the server. This can include the pictures, videos and other information that you would like to display on the site. Once you have organized the information within the template, you are ready to go online!

Search Engine Robots

The newer, inexperienced SEO tends to always try and “rush” their optimization efforts. I often see where new students want to continually “tweak their code” far too often, not allowing adequate time for robots to visit.

Best practice is to let the search engine robots run on their own schedule. If you want to make important changes, allow plenty of time in between to ensure the robots are finding the pages. But most importantly, you want to learn more from each change you make. You want to understand more, with each exercise.

Not every bit of optimization work will be measured, BUT when it comes to “trouble shooting,” it’s absolutely important that you measure your changes and post them to your log for review, at a later date. This way, if you error in any way, it can usually be undone fairly easily.