Webmasters Tips

Globat x BlueHost x MarbleHost comparison
I have many websites and in past years I used 3 web hosts: Globat.com, BlueHost.com and MarbleHost.com. With all of them I was at least one year so I can compare them.

Globat.com
Globat was my first web host. They offered amazing disk space and because my first website was photo album I signed up for Globat. First three months there was no problem. But then my site was very often down. A few months later my site was down for 2 weeks. I contacted support 3 times by they was not answering so I switched to Bluehost.

BlueHost.com
BlueHost was a little better then Globat. If I needed support they answered in 24 hours. Good hosting for those who need PHP, MySQL and average uptime. The reason why I switched to MarbleHost after 3 years with BlueHost was very slow page loading - usually it took about 30 seconds to load a static page.

MarbleHost.com
I am over one year with MarbleHost and I am excited so far (I hope I will not need to switch again... who knows). There are no downtimes and my site loads very quickly. When I need to help support answers in 10 - 20 minutes. I signed up for their Enterprise plan which is not the cheapest but it seems it is worth it. If I will get any experience with another web host in the --future I will post it here.

Free search engine ranking checker
If your website is #1 or #2 in google for particular keyword it is easy to check its position - you go to google.com, type the keyword and see the result. But how to check the rank if you are number 50, 100, 200... ?

Of course you can use google again and check the result pages as long as you will not find your website. But there is another solution how to make it quickly - free search engine ranking checker. You can easily type your keywords and domain name to the form and the ranking checker will tell you the rank in seconds.

Googlerankings.com can find the rank not only in Google but also in Yahoo! and Msn. To use this free service you will need API Key (you can get API Key for free, it requires only quick registration).

Banner exchange with multiple banner sizes
It seems banner advertising is not very popular in these days. The clickrate is extremely low so banners are mostly used for branding effect. However branding is regular part of marketing and if you want to try banner advertising you should consider to participate in some banner exchange.

How banner exchanges work? Simply - your will put banner on your website and for every banner you display you will get credits. Then you will upload your banner to the system. Your banner will be shown on other members websites and you will "pay" using your credits.

Most banner networks offer only 468 * 60 banner exchange. It is fine but more banner sizes is better. I personally use E-bannerx.com. They offer multiple banner sizes - 468 * 60, 120 * 60, 120 * 600, 125 * 125, 250 * 250 and 88 * 31. What I really like is the fact that they have many members so if I display banners on high traffic page there is enough advertising space for my own banners.

How to get traffic from articles
1. If you wrote quality article you can submit it to article directories. You will get many backlinks to your website this way because all serious article directories allow to put one or two links to the "about the author" box. This will help your website to gain better rank in search engines. The second benefit of article directories is highly targeted traffic. If you are SEO consultant write an article with some SEO tips. If your readers will find these tips useful many of them will visit your link in "about the author" box.

2. If you wrote an excellent article put it on your own website. People are looking for quality information and they will find your article using search engines. Again, you will get highly targeted traffic.

3 way link exchange problem
In last months I got a lot of link exchange requests. Some of them was 3 way link exchange request. 3 way link exchange means that site A links to site B but site B doesn't link back to site A (like in regular link exchange) but to site C.

The reason why some webmasters do that is simple - google doesn't give to links gained by link exchange to much value.

If you want to make 3 way link exchange be very careful. I got many request when webmaster asked me for a link to his primary site (and very quality site) but offered link back from low quality site. Here is an example: http://www.hostingobserver.com/ - look at this website. There are no useful information, it is nothing more then linkfarm.

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