Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Out of Africa. The Best Hosting Solution for your International Company

Web hosting is one of the things that we, as users want to run as smooth as possible. Is it not very frustrating when you want to update your website and your server is not available. Everybody who wants to make some money on the web, trust that they have chosen the best hosting company, with a lot of extras, for the best possible price.

People have come to trust only companies in the USA because the internet is very big in the USA. That lead to overlooking hosting companies in other countries.

With this article I want to turn your eyes to Africa; and specifically South Africa. This country is running with the big guns when it comes to technology. Although internet is much smaller in South Africa, it does not mean that our technology is not up there with the more economically advanced countries.

In South Africa we have got a company by the name of Afrihost that can teach some other more expensive companies a thing or two about hosting. Does anything good ever comes out of Africa? Yes, firstly, the first heart transplant was performed in South Africa. Do you have a Nelson Mandela? The only place in the world where two Noble Peace Price Winners stays in one street is in Soweto, South Africa. People are flocking to South Africa for a permanent solution for migraines. I can go on and on but then I would not be able to tell you about one of our web hosting companies on the forefront of technology and service.

Here are some of the things you will find at Afrihost:
1. 90 Day Double Your Money Back Guarantee – This company is so sure that you would stay with them that they offer you double your money back, if for any reason, you think that their web hosting does not live up to their promises. No strings attached and no questions asked.
2. Track Record – You will be delighted with their exceptional web hosting and over the top service. The testimonials were sent spontaneously by delighted clients.
3. Your delight is their passion – This company’s aim is to provide the best web hosting possible. They over deliver on their promises. Their clients are treated with the utmost respect.
4. The top 25 Hosting Questions Answered – Do not compromise when it comes to web hosting. If your hosting company cannot answer to any one of these questions, you will encounter problems in the future.
5. 10 Week Internet Course – Every client receives a 10 part course written by the Managing Director himself. All his experience gained in operating an internet business has been detail in this course to help you make a success of your business. This course is sold but free of charge for all clients.
6. Latest and most Powerful Web Servers - Your website will always be housed on the latest available web server technology. Currently the Web Servers used for all new Afrihost.com clients are IBM web servers with the following specifications: dual 2.8 Gigahertz (GHz) Xeon, RAID 5 SCSI drives with 2 Gigabytes (Gb) of RAM
7. With Afrihost's CPanel You have complete Control - Afrihost's CPanel (included with every hosting package) is a fully-featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you. You have the ability to manage all aspects of email, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics!! It also gives you access to your own web mail interface and online organizer!

Some of the other features that are offered are:
1. Free human Telephonic and E-mail support.
2. Comprehensive online support website
3. Anti-Virus checking on all e-mail addresses.
4. Fastest Hosting Data centre for your site
5. Bonus pack with additional features
6. Spam filter included for all e-mail addresses
7. Each web space package is boosted by at least 100% so you would never run out of space.
8. Your own web mail access anywhere anytime
9. Advanced traffic statistics for your website.

Having said all of this I think the biggest bonus for customers in the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zeeland and Britain would be the cost factor. All of those countries’ currencies are much stronger than the South African Rand. During this time of hardship, any saving is welcome.

Please check out Afrihost. You will be pleased you did.
God bless.

Steven D, South Africa

Looking for a business opportunity?
Here are some options:
a. Your own health products website.
b. Affiliate – health products. A two tier program where you can have your own team of affiliates.
c. Affiliate – websites and hosting. A two tier program where you can have your own team of affiliates.
d. Affiliate – websites and hosting. A two tier program where you can have your own team of affiliates.
e. Affiliate – websites and hosting. A two tier program where you can have your own team of affiliates.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Keywords, Keyphrases and Pictures. Do Search Engines love Pictures and Logo's.

Please start with: "Money's too tight to Mention. Start an Affiliate Business then Starting an Affiliate Business. What do I need?"
When you talk internet marketing you are talking about words. Go to any search engine and try to put in a picture. You were not very successful, were you?
As I am busy typing this, the song: “Words, don’t come easy to me”, comes to mind. Don’t crucify me if it is not the name of the song and just a line in it. I’m human, we all may mistakes.
Search engines need words to track other websites. We call it keywords. This is one of the reasons why a niche is important. The keywords will all direct you to the specific product. If you type the word fruit in the search engine you will get grapes, peaches, oranges, lemons, watermelons, figs, et cetera. Type in summer fruits and you won’t find oranges in your list. Then type in grapes and you will get the different variants of grapes, not watermelons. Can you see how important words are?
While researching your niche, you will have to type in different words or phrases into your search engines to be able to see if there is a demand for your product, like it is or in some other form. Say people need websites; do they go for websites where they just need to put in the finishing touches or do the most of them want to start from scratch. You will need different words and/or phrases for the one or the other.
Before we go any further I will have to choose your niche now. If you have not, stop. This is very important because you need to try out the process practically; why waste time if you can try it out on your actual niche.
Search engines will give you results but if you want to know how many times people used a specific word or phrase for a month you need some other program that would give you a more accurate picture. Two programs come to mind. These services allow us to enter keywords to see the greater picture. You will know exactly how many times the word or phrase has been used in search engines for a specific month. You will also get related words or phrases and its results.
1. Overture: This service is free. If you don’t have many to spend now, go for it. The problem is, with the searches done by humans, it will also give you searches done by computers and algorithms. It can complicate things a bit, because we are interested in searches done by humans only. For a start it should be okay; but when you’ve made some money, use the other service to refine your keywords.
2. Wordtracker: This is a subscription service. You will only get results of searches done by humans. This is what we’re looking for. The more times the people entered the specific word or phrase in a search, the better for you. After you have signed up and logged in:
a. Click keyword universe
b. Enter your keywords in the text area on your left. Think of your niche. In this case it will be websites or whatever you have chosen.
c. Refine your search. A whole list of words related to websites will appear. What is the actual product that you are marketing? Find it and click on it. Keep on refining until you get to your specific niche with the specific keywords fitting.
d. Although I said it is good if people have entered a specific word or phrase more, this is the time to narrow it down. Would you want to compete in a niche with one million clicks a month or one thousand. With a thousand you’ve got a better change of getting your website ranked higher.
e. Built a list with up to ten keywords.
I’ve got to run. Next time we are going to talk about spiders, links and ranks.
See you and God bless.

Steven D, South Africa
PS. There are also some other places where you can get websites. Click here or here to check them out.

Finally, a way out.

When you’ve been out of a job for several years you kinda get desperate and you would try anything just to be able to put bread on your table. Believe me, it is the most difficult thing in the world not to know where the next meal will be coming from.
Yes, I do believe that God is my Provider and He has not let me down thus far. Every time I thought that tonight we’re going to sleep hungry He would come through for us as a family. Sometimes I would ask myself why do I have to be so dependant on Him. He would answer that it is the only way that I’m going to keep the faith so that I can be a testimony for Him.
When you don’t have money to buy clothes, food or pay your bills you don’t want to be a witness for any one. Yet, when you think about the miraculous ways in which He provided and still is, for you, you just have to be a witness. Some people just don’t understand that at all.
I know that there will be people out there who reads this and say: “Just another one of those mad so-called Christians that wants to shove their believes down our throats”. Believe me, if I had a choice, I would just let you be, but with Him in my corner I can’t. just have to tell you, even when this was not the reason why I started this article.
The reason why I started this article was to talk about my struggles to get to a place where I did not have to worry about the next bread. Yes, He provided for me but I still had to get to a place where I did not want to worry. About two years back I stumbled upon the term affiliates on the internet. When I started to read more I told myself, god is finally going to take me out of my financial woes.
Was I wrong. Everybody made it sound so easy, just click here, then there and whallah, the money is on its way to your bank account. Nobody was honest enough to tell you that you need a credit card to access certain items. Everybody would say you don’t need a product or money to start an affiliate business.
They were and are right, that is if you just want to sign up as an affiliate. You would only find out later that you need a website to market those things. When somebody does not know the internet and is desperate to make some money you just jump in and try to pick up more information later.
With no food in your home you want to see a check by the first payday that comes around for the company your are an affiliate for. Yes, you are so desperate that you are stupid. Where did you ever hear that you can make money without investing money.
For two years I tried to find a way to make money without any success. I had no program running because there just was no money. Without a regular income your first priority is to see to your family’s immediate needs. Things just got worse as time went by. I got to a point where only a miracle could carry my family, and it happened day after day.
Last year I downloaded quit a few free e-books because my dream was to market e-books. I just kept on downloading them without reading any.
Then, in January of this year I opened one of the books and started to read. My miracle has arrived; actually it arrived last year some time already. I started to read the book with disbelieve but had a few campaigns running before I got to the end. Listen hear, I did not have to pay a cent except for my internet connection. The only other investment that I had to make was lots of time. I’m still busy even as I write this article.
The skill to write articles did not come naturally to me and my home language is not English, but know that God has given the miracle into my hands I’m going to work and work until I have refine it. Today it is not about how good my writing is; it is about getting the word out.
There is a way out. God bless you.

Steven D, South Africa