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Blog Hosting: How SEO Hosting Provider Beats All Others Hands Down
Too many people think that hosting is simple and easy. They believe that any old host will do, but I’ll tell you from experience that this isn’t true. There are popular hosts that I would never recommend for a company blog.
When it comes to choosing a host for your blog, you need to think about a long-term commitment. You don’t want to have to pull out and find a new host because of lousy service or technical issues. It’s worth it to pay a little extra for a host that can meet your blog’s needs. Specifically, you want a web host that can address the following issues:
- Speed – If you have a slow loading blog or website you will lose sales. You want a host that can increase the your load time speed and that means picking a host that doesn’t put your blog on a server that is bogged down by spammers and huge files.
- Functionality – For a blog, you need to stay away from Windows Servers. We recommend Linux or Apache. You also want a host that can support Fantastico, cpanel, php, and MySQL. Functionality is very important for a blog and modern blogging platforms – the best ones – are php and MySQL based. You want the best functionality available for the best performance.
- Tech Support – Cheap web posts provide cheap and lousy tech support. Remember, as in all things, you get what you pay for. When you have a problem, you want someone who can speak your language and takes your problem seriously.
- Customer Service – Finally, customer service. I separate this from technical support because sometimes you just need good, solid advice. Blog Content Provider gives advice based on more than 20 years combined experience in SEO, blogging, and Internet marketing. We recommend what works. Not only do you get valuable experience with us, but we also evaluate your business plan based on your goals. If it won’t work, we’ll let you know before you spend thousands of dollars. If it’s a good idea, we’ll praise you for it!
When it comes to these very important issues regarding web hosting, for your blog we recommend SEO Hosting Provider. Yes, it’s a part of our family, but that’s not why we recommend it. We recommend it because we’ve put the thought behind the processes necessary for your blog and have designed a blog host to meet those needs. If you can find a better host anywhere else we’ll still work with you to make your blog the best that it can be.
Blogging Doesn’t Have To Be Discouraging
This is a great article on what blogging really is like. It isn’t all cake and roses. But if you were to listen only to this message then you might be discouraged to give it a try. Nevertheless, you need to know what you’re getting into:
Starting a new blog might seem like a very simple idea. After all, anyone with a little determination and basic internet experience can establish and manage a blog. There are dozens of websites all dedicated to promoting free blogging platforms but when many of these businesses are trying to encourage new users to sign up they rarely tell you any of the downsides.
Establishing a blog is more than just answering a few questions on a sign up forms and starting write. Setting up a blog is establishing an extremely personalized web presence that requires some patience and knowledge of using FTP. If you are someone that is interested in trying out WordPress this free blogging platform can be installed on your own domain. WordPress boasts that all users can install the platform in five minutes but this is not always the case.
Yes, certain web hosts will allow you to set up and install WordPress in five minutes, but not all of them will. That’s why it helps to have a professional who is knowledgeable and experienced with WordPress help you with the installation and set up of your new blog. For a reasonable fee that won’t bankrupt you, you can have your new WordPress blog installed on your website quickly and easily by a professional who knows what he is doing.
While many new hosting companies offer “one-click” install options that really will install the blogging platform in five minutes not all users have web hosts that offer this perk. Many new users will have to manually install all of the php files needed to run WordPress. This can be a challenge to anyone that is not used to installing programs. Before tackling a manual installation talk to someone from your web hosting company to double check that they do not offer a one-click install. You do not want to labor for hours only to discover the one click install option after you have done all of the grunt work.
Again, if you try this yourself and hit a snag, give us a call and we can take it over from where you get stuck.
Once you have installed WordPress you must take the time to pick out a good theme. Your theme is going to give all users their very first impression of your new weblog. Having a very plain theme or overly busy theme can create the incorrect impression of your blog. Also, when you are choosing a theme you must think of more than just aesthetics. After you have gotten used to dealing with one sort of theme it might be very hard to switch over to a different theme style.
Understand that not all themes are created equal. Some themes are not SEOd very well at all. That can hurt your blog tremendously because a blog that is not SEOd well will not see its full traffic potential. Because each blog post is a separate web page, the search engines index each blog post separately. If they cannot crawl your blog because your blog theme isn’t SEOd well then that will mean fewer pages indexed at the search engines. A professional installer can find you a good theme that will get crawled.
When starting your blog keep in mind that not all search engine optimization tools can be used with blogging platforms. Many traffic analysis services will not work well with weblogs that are hosted on free sites or are on platforms like blogger. There are search engine optimization tools that have been made specifically for WordPress and other blogging platforms but these tools usually only work with blogs that are hosted on their own domains with premium web hosts.
In order to get the most from your blogging experience, you’ll need to track traffic and user experience. There are tools you can use for that. Some are free and some are very expensive. But which ones you use depends a great deal on the goals you have for your blog. That’s another reason a professional can help you with your installation and SEO.
Do not let these things discourage you and keep you from becoming a successful blogger. It is extremely likely that you will be able to set up your own profitable blog but keep in mind that you will have to invest time and effort in order to properly promote your blog to the right audience. Developers are constantly creating more tools to help bloggers make their blogs search engine friendly so that your blog audience can be increased.
For more ideas on blogging check out Random Woman or the Random Woman Blog.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Meka_Mcspadden
You don’t have to be discouraged at all if you are just starting out. A professional blog ghostwriter can help you write good content for your blog as well. Whether you are selling a product or service, driving traffic to your AdSense blog, or promoting a service company, your blog deserves the best and highest quality content that you can give it. You can spend months meandering your way through the content maze and try to learn SEO on your own or you can hand it over to a professional who can get your website crawled and fill it with SEOd content from Day 1. Blog Content Provider can manage every aspect of your blog from start to finish. Give us a try.
WordPress Or Blogger? Which Is Better?
Some bloggers are married to Blogger.com and others swear by WordPress. Which is better?
There are good reasons for going with either one. To be sure, pros and cons abound on both sides, but I’m partial to WordPress for business blogs and there are several reasons why. But before I tell you what they are, let me just tout the virtues of Blogger.com:
- It’s owned by Google
There. That should do it.
Now, I’m not being sarcastic. Google has a lot of pull in terms of who is ranked in the search engines – particularly its own. And if you own the system then you can give it a little extra credit. And that’s the primary benefit of Blogger.com. You get extra credit for SEO with Google.
Now, the downside is it’s a free web-based blogging platform. And you might ask, “Well, why is that a downside?” It’s a downside because if it’s free then everyone can use it, and everyone will – including spammers. Spammers love Blogger.com because it’s free and easy to use. They don’t have to buy a domain name or install any software and there is no commitment to maintain anything. And because of this, Blogger.com is the biggest spam neighborhood on the Internet. That alone is reason not to use it for your business blog.
This blog post from a Blogger.com advocate confirms what I’m saying:
Yes, WordPress is a “must have” for a serious blogger, especially if their topic is “making money” or “blogging” but, in many circumstances, Blogger is a superior platform and here are 3 reasons why.
And what does this blogger say are the three reasons that Blogger.com is superior?
- It’s free
- The user interface is simple to use
- No SEO needed
OK. Fabulous. WordPress is free and the user interface is simple to use. But you do need to optimize it and think about SEO when you write your posts. It doesn’t have the advantage of being owned by Google. Blogger.com does, and I’ve seen non-SEOd Blogger blogs rank highly simply because they use a Blogger.com interface. It’s the only advantage that you have with Blogger.com. Still, I reiterate it’s huge negative: Big-time spam neighborhood!
WordPress, O WordPress, Wherefore Art
Thou WordPress?
There are some technical challenges to overcome with WordPress. If you aren’t familiar with FTP, you’ll be lost. If you’ve never installed software on a website, CMS, or other blogger software then there is a learning curve. But that’s no reason not to do it. You can hire someone to do that for you or learn to do it yourself – it really isn’t hard once you get past the learning curve.
After the technical challenges, you can build a great blog with WordPress. You have more flexibility in terms of design with free access to unlimited plug-ins and widgets, your pick of free templates, or you can hire a designer to design your own unique template, you can have your own domain name, and with excellent writing and SEO abilities you can have a darn good blog within your niche.
There is no advantage to being with a platform where no SEO is necessary to rank. It’s like having a job because you are the business owner’s son. The other employees know you have no skills to offer. You’re just there to take up space because you can’t go out on your own. WordPress allows you to prove your independence.
It almost always better to own the real estate than to rent it. With Blogger.com, you are a renter, which means you can be evicted any time. With WordPress, you are an owner. the only thing that will get you evicted is not maintaining your financial obligations. For $10/year you can have your very own domain name. Pay your bill, it’s yours forever, and if you can’t afford $10/year then you shouldn’t have a blog any way. WordPress is free, easy to install, and with the proper SEO will help you brand your business long term. There really is no reason not to use WordPress as your blog platform.
