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Finding a Hosting Service

February 11, 2009

Whenever I am asked to start a new website, especially a Wordpress site, one of the most important questions to consider is the hosting service. There are a few good ones that I constantly recommend and many, many poor ones that I highly recommend you avoid. Unfortunately some clients have already signed up for a service on their own and that can lead to a lot of problems. Some Qualities to Look For: cPanel: This is a control panel system that you (or your designer) will use to setup email, control usernames and ftp access. The technical side of things is made MUCH easier with this. I won't work on a site without it. Fantastico or Simple Scripts: These are services that allow simple one-click access to many of the most popular web site scripts out there, like Wordpress, mailing lists, e-commerce plugins, etc. Most quality hosting services offer this. Unlimited (or essentially unlimited)

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Using the Website Grader service from Hubspot

February 1, 2009

In a post last week, PIFPhoto.com talked about Google's Keyword tool, one of the great free tools made available by Google for free to help analyze, enhance and promote your website. I left a comment mentioning a site called grader.com, which offers a number of great free tools to analyze your site's visibility to the search engines. It even offers suggestions for how to improve your site specifically. Lindsay at PIF, asked if I would be interested in writing a guest blogger article going into further detail on using the Website Grader. I was happy to take her up on the offer but the PIF site has undergone a redesign and now the post is no longer available. So I have recreated it below: There are three sections to the site: the 'Website Grader', the 'Twitter Grader' and the 'Press-Release Grader'. I have only used the website and Twitter sections, but

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Tags: products I endorse, Resources, SEO, tips, web apps

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