Choosing a Web Hosting Company
There are a few basic questions that if a Web hosting firm can not answer adequately then they should not be considered as a business-class Web hosting firm. All questions will affect the ability to host a growing and flourishing Web presence and ability to integrate with other systems and technologies and will affect the overall success of your Web-based business across all industries.
The Domains Business The first questions deal with viability of the company and its technical arrangement and hierarchy to avoid down time. The next few questions deals with their ability to provide search engine friendly and google optimized sites and servers. The final is cost for bandwidth, server and staff capabilities.
I. Viability and Technical Hierarchy
a) Describe your upstream (backbones), backup strategies (Onsite and Offsite), operating systems and what is your downtime as a percentage?
b) Describe the server hardware.
II. Search Engine & Web Friendly Server-Sites
a) Do you host dynamic sites that are search spider friendly? Show examples.
b) Do you or existing customer own natural search, and pay per click, marketing key phrases. Show examples.
c) Do you have staff who are search marketing experts? Describe their experience. If not do you outsource this? To whom?
III. Server & Staff Capabilities
a) What program is used for Web site stats? Does it provide data about what search engines send traffic and what key-phrases are used to find the site? Does it proved error pages and other error trap information? Show examples.
b) Is the staff experienced in optimizing Web pages for the search engines?
c) What higher-level dynamic systems are supported on the servers and at what additional cost? What dynamic languages does the server support? (i.e. ASP, JSP, DotNet, PHP, ColdFusion, etc.) Is there available staff, and support, available for each, or any, of these languages?
The Online Domains Business Search Check-off list:
Thursday:
– Choose an expanded primary key-phrase for the title of the release.
– Choose a list of key-phrases that include primary phrase and some that are variations thereof.
– Draft a well-written release of about 300 to 500 words.
Friday:
– Submit the release in the morning bidding $80.
– When it is approved check on rating hoping for three out of five. The rating is in parentheses next to the word count. Re-write, and resubmit as necessary.
– Log into the system Add nine more industries to cover using the ‘Control’ (ctrl) key.
– Check your rank in the evening. IF you are not ranked three or better then increase your bid, contribution in $20 increments to get to third place.
Sunday:
– Check your ranking. If first place is around $200 then bid $201 minimum. If $200 does not get you to at least third place then reschedule the release for next Sunday, or increase your bid as your budget allows. This is your call. In my opinion it is well worth a thousand or more dollars for a top spot, but as entrepreneurs we can’t always make that happen.
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