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Are you confused, perplexed and undecided? These are the major “symptoms” for those who have already designed their website but they don’t know which web hosting provider to choose from. Clearly, with all the attractive packages offered by the hosting company, no one would blame you for having such headaches if you were not an IT-savvy person. Even if you are an IT-savvy person, I’m sure you might face with some difficulties choosing the ideal hosting provider since there are so many different type of prices in set by different web hosting provider.

Well, talking about IDEAL, do you believe there is IDEAL web hosting provider for everyone? Of course, there is no such thing as ideal web hosting provider for everyone. Please bear in mind that different people see things differently. One may say company A is very very good and realiable, then the next person may think that company B is better. So, in terms of viewing an ideal provider, it differs from person to person. Therefore, when a question such as “list the top 5 web hosting company” is asked, everyone will have different answer. Briefly, web hosting provider will host your website and make sure it can be accessed by everyone 24 hours a day. So, it is vital to select a reliable one to make sure your website is always accessible particularly if your website is an important means of communication for you to reach your end users.

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There are several tracking tools that measure the traffic coming to your website and that can identify what search engines and what keywords have brought that traffic. Moreover tracking tools can also tell you what the visitor has done online, including page visits, time spent, actions taken (relevant for e-commerce sites or query/contact forms) and so on. You will have to find your survey methodologies to relate the traffic history to the revenue results. Some of these are mentioned below:

*Doubleclick’s DART*Doubleclick’s DART paid placement and advertising ROI tracking tool generates web-based reports on cost per click, number of clicks, overall media cost, conversion rates, gross sales, return on investment (ROI), and net profit. Such tools are suited to online merchant sites.

*WebTrends from NetlQ*Offers server-based software to determine how many visitors are coming to the Web site, where they’re coming from, what they’re doing on the Web site, and which search engines are sending the most traffic, along with which phrases drive the most traffic from each search engine.

*HitBox from WebSideStory*It uses a different data collection method, by enabling site owners to add code to their site. It tracks the same type of information that the WebTrends product does.

*Urchin*This is another useful measuring and tracking tool.

When the search engine user gets the result of a search, they’ll see the highlighted titles for each listing followed by a short description. You should think of this just like a classified ad with a headline and short copy.
Here are some tips for formulating effective titles and descriptions:
• Use an attention getting headline to get as many people as possible to read the description. Here’s where you want to be sure to use the important proven successful terms like “free” and “you”.
• Write a description that succinctly tells the reader why he or she would be a fool not to click on your link. For most keywords this is the best plan because you’re only paying a penny or two for the click-through. But, you’ll want to be more selective about the copy for the more expensive bids. If you’re going to pay a quarter for each click through, then you may want to have higher quality traffic. You don’t want just anyone to click through. You want people more likely to buy.
• You should have the ability to track each keyword so you can determine the success ratios of clickthroughs to sales. All programs discussed above will allow you to use their system to track clickthroughs.

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I am an online merchant and looking for a good e-commerce hosting provider? As there are so many e-commerce hosting companies offering a range of products these days, i am getting confused. Can anyone help me in finding a perfect e-commerce web host?

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The cost of a top position with any of the big PPC’s depends upon the keyword you are bidding on and how many people search for it. If you have to bid on a popular word such as ‘Internet marketing’ be prepared to pay around $2 – $4 for a decent position. But what if you went for “Internet marketing articles” it costs less than a quarter of the price, it will produce far less visits of course, but is much more cost effective. Imagine doing this on a wide scale basis, securing lots of low-cost positions, the combined traffic from these positions will add up to the level produced by a popular keyword – but at a fraction of the cost.

*Costs*
The primary disadvantage of paid inclusion is the cost, although this factor naturally depends on your means. Typically, submitting to a few paid programs would cost anywhere around $1000 a year.
*Reach*
A second disadvantage, perhaps more accurately described as a limitation, is that Google does not offer paid inclusion (and maintains that it never will). Since Google currently provides the primary results for three of the top four engines (Google, Yahoo, and AOL), engines that offer paid inclusion may only account for a fraction of your overall site traffic. Google typically updates about once every month, and there is no way to add your pages to their index any faster- which means that you will be waiting for Google to index your new (or newly optimized) pages regardless of which paid inclusion programs you use. Only after Google lists your pages will they appear in Yahoo and AOL results.
*Considerations*There are many factors to consider when examining paid URL inclusion. The following five are some of the most common:

*Are my pages already in the index?*

Just because you can’t find your pages when you enter search terms does not mean that your pages haven’t been indexed. To see if your pages have been indexed, go to the engine and search for each of your exact page URLs in quotes. If each page shows up for the URL search but not for a search of any key phrases related to the page, paid inclusion will not help your rankings (your pages are already in the index and have been ranked according to their perceived value). It would be much more beneficial to invest some time and/or money in optimizing your pages for better rankings (you can still consider paid inclusion afterwards if you don’t want to wait for the spider to revisit).
*Is it a good investment for me?*
Naturally, budgetary constraints can be a primary consideration. If you can’t afford paid inclusion, then it obviously isn’t an option. However, simply because you can afford it does not mean it is a good investment. For example, a business that sells a very inexpensive product online that is counting on volumes of traffic may not see a good return on their investment (again, 3 of the top 4 engines do not offer paid URL inclusion). On the other hand, if your business has a high average dollar sale and you put a high value on each quality lead, you might consider immediate paid URL inclusion a no-brainer.

*Do my pages change frequently?*

If your web pages are subject to daily or weekly changes in content, paid inclusion may offer some additional benefits. When your pages are spidered frequently, all new content is indexed by the engine soon after it is added to your pages. This means that your pages will begin to appear in searches for terms related to the new content much more quickly.
Are my important pages dynamically generated?
Some search engine spiders have a problem finding and indexing pages that are dynamically generated (such pages often have a question mark somewhere in the URL). By paying to include the important pages of your dynamically generated website, you can be sure that they are in the engine’s index, even if the “organic” spider would never find them on its own.

The effectiveness of your efforts in submitting your pages for listing on search engines can be monitored and evaluated by two methods: spider spotting and URL check.
Spiders from search engines that visit your site and crawl pages leave some unique trace marks in your access log. This can tell you whether a spider has visited or not, what pages they have visited and also the frequency or duration of their visit.
The best way to identify spider visits is by finding out which visitors asked for the file robots.txt from your site. Only spiders make such a request, as this file is an indication to them to avoid covering the page in question. So the first thing a crawler would do is to check for this file. If you see the access log and analyze it using some convenient software, you would be able to spot all the visits that were initiated with this request. Then one can spot the host name and relate that to major search engines. Host names are related to the search engine company’s name (it is the name of the site that hosts the spider). Another name that is used to identify such visits is the agent or browser names used by respective search engines. Get a list of host names and agent names from available resources (these names tend to change often) and also develop your own intuitive list by searching your access logs for all occurrences of known engine, host or agent names. Concentrate only on the top engines; though you may find several other smaller and less known search engines visiting your site.

Pay attention to not only the total number of visits but to the activity pattern for each of the recent visits to actually judge how many pages they covered. This is a very good way of ensuring if submissions have worked or if other inducements such as links from other sites have worked or not. This also helps you to distinctly evaluate the effectiveness of submission, indexing and page ranking characteristics of your site.
Some examples of hostnames and agent names are as below:
• AltaVista: hostname may have altavista.com within its name; agent is often called Scooter
• Excite host name may have atex or excite.com and agent name is Architextspider.
• Inktomi agent and host names have inktomi.com and Slurp is often used as the agent name.
• Lycos uses lycos.com within its host name and Lycos Spider is often part of the agent name.

Determining the value of each keyword, and in turn each visitor, is vital. The simple formula goes like this: Divide the average number of new customers each month (a long enough period to be statistically significant) by the average number of monthly visitors to get the percentage of visitors who actually become customers. If you multiply this percentage times your average profit margin on sales to new customers, you get a good idea of how much a visitor is worth to you on the first visit.

For example: If I average 10,000 visitors per month to my website and sell 150 of them a product with a $20 profit margin, then I can easily calculate the percentage (150/10,000) to be 1.5%. Multiplying the 1.5% by $20 yields a $0.30 value for each visitor.
It’s interesting to look at the bigger picture of this example as well. While making $0.30 per visitor doesn’t seem like much, the dollars get big quickly when you multiply pennies by thousands of visitors. My profits for the month with 150 sales would be $3,000 if I had no advertising costs. If I can generate the visitors for a cost of $0.10 each for a total cost of $ 1,000, then I have a profit of $2,000.

Frequent changes have occurred in the technology used to develop websites. The tools, code standards and design concepts have rapidly improved to a newer level. So has the demand for more technically advanced and better functioning websites. The consumers’ demand for popular content management systems has increased from what it was a few years ago. But most website owners don’t have time to modify and update their website. In this highly competitive field, updating the website is a crucial factor determining its success. To make your online business profitable, you need to be the best at what you do to keep people streaming to your site. You have to think creatively to develop new ideas to improve your products and services.
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A good web design company should offer content management of best quality at affordable rates to the clients. The cheaper the rates and better the quality of work, more the demand will be for your services. If you don’t provide this option to your clients, you are sure to lose a great deal of prospective clients to your competitors.
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Content management gives the website owners freedom and control over the website and its content.
They can update and modify their website whenever they want, in the best suitable way. Here are a few features of a Content Management System (CMS):
-********* Update the content of each page
-********* Provide latest information about the industry.
-********* Add/remove and edit pages whenever necessary.
-********* Use graphics and images wherever necessary to give the apt feeling.
If your company offers web design services [/b] and also provides CMS to your prospective clients, you can be sure that the popularity of your company will increase greatly.