Pure and simple. The success of your website depends on how much traffic you can generate to it. Your website search engine rank dictates your success or failure. Get on the first search engine results page for your keywords and your probability of success will be high. If you land anywhere else in the search engine results, you are invisible and will probably fail.
If you are not experienced in search engine optimization and you do not know all the steps that it takes to make your site rank high with the search engines, you need a web site host that will guide you through the steps and provides the necessary assistance to make your site appear on the first page of the search engines.
The ideal web site host should offer the following services:
- Fast, reliable hosting
- Reasonable cost for services provided
- No initial set up fee
- Domain registration included in hosting charge
- Unlimited data transfer
- Email customer support
- Telephone customer support
- Point and click page building
- Unlimited web pages
- Tools for brainstorming key words for your site theme
- Tools for evaluating the supply and demand for your keywords
- Assistance in building your web pages to make them search engine friendly
- Uploading your own web pages if desired
- Automatic submission of each new page or each updated page to the search engines
- Page templates for your site
- Customized 404 error pages
- Direction on creating Google and Yahoo site maps.
- Inclusion of a blog site
- Unlimited email accounts
- Email forwarding
- Email domain forwarding
- Support forum of other users
- Point and click custom input form creation tool
- Unlimited autoresponders
- Ability to upload XML code for RSS pages
- Link exchange and link builder
- eZine publishing tool
- Email marketing list builder/distribution
- Reports
- Search engine ranking report
- Traffic statistics and analysis
- Click tracking and analysis
- Keyword search report for search engines
- Tracking of search engine spiders
- Any other additional services
If you find a web host that provides all these services, you should hire it immediately.
For more information about choosing web site hosts, read the Boomer eZine at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/about_iwh.htm.
To succeed on the Internet, you need all the help you can get. Make certain that your web site host can give you that help and that all the services are included in the base price.
John V. W. Howe is an entrepreneur, author, inventor, patent holder, husband, father, and grandfather. He has been involved in entrepreneurial activities for over 40 years. He founded http://www.boomer-ezine.com and http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com to help Boomers (baby boomers) become entrepreneurs when they retire.
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