The Netmotivated Weblog

What is Web Hosting?

April 25, 2008 – 1:41 pm
Every website needs a home. For a web site to be available on the Internet, it has to be hosted on a web server. This is where web hosting comes in. Web hosting is a service that provides individuals, companies and users with online systems for storing pages, images, videos, or any content accessible via the Web. There are plenty of companies, like ourselves, known as web hosts or web hosting providers that provide these services. Web Hosting providers setup and manage web servers that are located in large purpose built Datacenters, mostly situated in major towns and cities around the world link to the ‘hubs’ of the internet. Users upload their web pages to these servers so their websites can viewed by people from anywhere in the world. To access a website people need to know the ‘domain name’ of the site e.g. microsoft.com, apple.com, netmotivated.co.uk etc. When you type a ...

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23rd April 2008 - Service Status - Mail Delivery Issues

April 23, 2008 – 9:15 am
Hello, We had some mail delivery issues in the early hours of this morning, resulting in a backlog mail waiting to be delivered. Things are steadily getting back to normal, however at this time some customers may still experience some delays in receiving mail. Kind regards Netmotivated http://www.netmotivated.co.uk

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Graduation Day for Website Optimizer and Urchin Software!

April 21, 2008 – 11:50 am
On the 16th April at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, Google happily announced two launches. If they could have shouted it from the rooftops, they would have. Enjoy! Website Optimizer now available as a standalone product! Google Website Optimizer is all grown up. Formerly a feature within Google AdWords only, this free website-testing tool is now accessible to anyone worldwide through its own website.Read the full article here: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/04/graduation-day-for-website-optimizer.html Netmotivated Ltd http://www.netmotivated.co.uk

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Special offer from Netmotivated: Register .info domains for just £3.99!

March 28, 2008 – 12:51 am
Now the Internet’s 6th largest TLD with nearly 5 million registered names, .INFO makes it easier for registrants to get the name they want in an extension that enjoys broad acceptance on a global scale. Netmotivated is currently offering a special deal on new one-year registrations for this domain. Get a .info domain for just £3.99+vat Visit http://www.netmotivated.co.uk/hosting/domains.php Promotion ends 30th June 2008.

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An energy efficient Google search site?

March 26, 2008 – 3:05 pm
The next time you want to search for something on the web, try going to ‘www.blackle.com’ instead of your usual search engine. The page you get looks remarkably like Google, and queries you type in are fed through to Google, but there’s one obvious difference. Instead of the generous amount of white space which has characterised Google’s home page since its 1998 launch, the page is mostly black. Heap Media, the Australian company behind Blackle, claim that black pixels take less power than white and so using their search saves energy. They believe that small things matter when it comes to reducing our energy use, limiting our C02 output and reducing the likely extent of global warming as a result of human activity. Read the full article on billblog or on the BBC website See also darkoogle.com Netmotivated Ltd http://www.netmotivated.co.uk

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Do I really Need a Website?

March 26, 2008 – 3:48 am
My answer will always be the same answer, Yes, if you are in business, no matter what type or how small, you should have a website, if you don't you could be losing business to competitors that do. However, it's not enough that you just have a website. You must have a professional looking site if you want to be taken seriously. Nowadays people often search online first before buying a product or service.Therefore, your website may be the first time people form an impression about your business. For example, if you are builder it would be advisable to have a website that shows a picture portfolio of your work so people get an indication of the type and quality of work you offer. A picture can speak a thousand words. The beauty of the internet is that it enables businesses of any size to compete against the larger companies. If you ...

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Negative SEO - What Can Google Do?

March 26, 2008 – 2:33 am
Perhaps you've heard about "Negative SEO" or "Google bowling," where your competitors use spam techniques seemingly on your behalf to knock down your site. Ethically-challenged search marketers are once again bringing a black eye to the industry by intentionally using spam techniques to get their competitors penalized. And what can you do about it? Not much, except to complain to Google that this is the wrong way to operate. Google has choices and we need to scream that they make some better ones. Read the full article here: http://www.mikemoran.com/biznology/archives/2008/03/what_google_could_do_to_stop_n.html

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Does your website look like spam to search engines?

March 26, 2008 – 2:08 am
Is your website nowhere to be seen in Google? It might be that Google doesn't like your website because it looks like spam. Check the following list to find out whether your website might look like spam or not. 1. Domain name factors that can indicate a spammy website: The domain names of spammy websites are often very long and contain many hyphens. Those domain names often contain commercial high value keywords (the keywords for which you receive lots of spam messages that we don't want to mention here). Spammy domains are often registered by people who own a very large number of domains. The more domains a person owns, the more likely it is that the quality of a single domain isn't high. Spammy domains are often very young and have a short registration period. Low quality domains also often use .info, .cc, .us ...

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Eric Schmidt: MicroHoo Deal Could ‘Break’ the Internet

March 22, 2008 – 3:31 am
Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Portfolio's Russ Mitchell that a Microsoft-Yahoo deal could "break the internet." Was he kidding? Apparently not. http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/03/eric-schmidt-mi.html

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Are your AdWords results getting worse?

March 22, 2008 – 3:23 am
If you find that your per click prices are going through the roof while ...

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