PART 2. Hesitant About Web Hosting? The Geeks Got It All Covered for You

On PART I, I’ve talked about the world’s largest web site hosting directory known as web hosting ratings. Now, we’ll be moving on to it’s partner directory undeniable run by geeks…as they call themselves… web hosting geeks. No surprise there. While I’d like to make this review a separate from the first, there’s little much distinction from web hosting ratings and web hosting geeks – the very reason why I intended to create a series post. Now where were we? Oh right. Off to even more geeky stuff about web hosting.

What’s The Difference From Web Hosting Ratings

It’s pretty much easy to confuse one from the other because of the relatively similar site interface. With that, my first task really is to identify that difference.


Same awards… different categories. Whew. My first discovery leads me to disproving the idea that web hosting geeks is not a replica of web hosting ratings. While you can find here to awards given by WHR, the following are the independent awards given by the geeks (that’s my shortcut).

• Best Budget Hosting
• Best Blog Hosting
• Best Forum Hosting
• Best Unix Hosting
• Best Windows Hosting
• Best PHP Hosting
• Best Email Hosting
• Best Ecommerce Hosting
• Best Multiple Domain Hosting
• Best VPS Hosting
• Best Reseller Hosting
• Best Dedicated Hosting
Click here to see the awards given out by web hosting geeks…

The second difference is…well… age. There’s a two year difference between them. That means webhosting geeks have only been around since 2004 (in internet age, that’s way too old).

But The Similarities Are…

Well at least in a good way, both are reputable directories (which is well reinforced by their age). I find web hosting geeks though to be a little more competent in providing resources for the newbies of web hosting. My favorite resources are:

• Web hosting instructions
• Web hosting guide, and
• Finding the best web hosting service

There are more than enough articles at web hosting geeks to get you busy all day long if you really are into this topic. If you’re merely in for the recommendations, they have a robust array of web hosting reviews where you can easily locate the place to go for.

My Personal Notes

I got a hefty load of new information to digest thanks to both website hosting directories. Plus now I know where to go every time I run against these sort of topics. Still quite disorienting though. Sometimes with the too many choices, I get even more incapable of choosing the which over which. It’s just a good discovery though to know that like any other thing, you simply have to find the ideal place for your specific need.

Both web hosting ratings and web hosting geeks taught that too me.

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PART I. Hesitant About Web Hosting? Why Not Read The World’s Largest Web Hosting Directory

I’ve never been much of a techie person – I myself just prefer to write and play around with my photoshop. When it comes to web hosting- really, aside from personal recommendations that I get from friends, my knowledge is really very limited. And to think deciding over where- or what- the best web hosting is among the hundreds of companies open in the market can get quite stressful. The solution? It’s a good thing to always ask the leader in the review industry. This time, let’s not only go to the leader, but to the world’s largest itself.


Read Web Hosting Rating
“The world's largest independent web hosting directory since 2002...”

Web Hosting Ratings is simply a gold mine of every web hosting related information. It’s jam-packed with all the good stuffs – a comprehensive list of web hosting companies, full featured quality reviews, the great deals and recommendations, and a sound system of determining which is the best offer in the web.

Know The Best Web Hosts of 2009

Everyone can make their own rankings for all we care. Everyone too can claim that they’ve figured out who’s the top of what. But really, when their rankings would affect the way we decide, isn’t it much better to rely on a ranking that’s trusted globally?

Web Hosting Rating with it’s long reputation (almost 8 years now) of being a gauge to webhosting efficiency yearly gives it’s best web hosts awards. As of November 2009, web hosting rating have given out it’s awards again. With these awards, whatever your needs are in web hosting, you’ll have a head start idea on where to go.

Here are the award categories:

• Best in Budget Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Email Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Ecommerce Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Blog Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Multiple Domain Hosting Provider
• Best in PHP Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Forum Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Reseller Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Unix Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Windows Web Hosting Provider
• Best in Dedicated Web Hosting Provider
• Best in VPS Web Hosting Provider

Click here to see the award winners...

All For Simple and Minimalistic

On first visit, web hosting rating looks to be nothing of outstanding caliber at all. Maybe it’s a bias to the simplicity of the site interface. It took me quite a while still (and a lot of moving around) to figure out the hotshot that this review site actually is. Lesson learned? Don’t let looks deceive you. Still, I do hope the guys in here get’s to pimp the site to make it all the more appealing to everyone.

I Got My Basic Knowledge On Web Hosting Here

In an effort to really understand what I’m supposed to write, I have to understand too what web site hosting is all about. Honestly, I never really gave much of an effort in understanding the world of website hosting – it’s still beyond my techie capacity. If you scroll down to the bottom page though, you’ll see an article about web hosting. Well that really did gave me my first basic ideas.

If you go to their web hosting guide page, you’ll definitely know more!

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Why We Owe Blogging To The… Scientists?!? Reflections to What Blogging Has Become

The first blogs that ever existed (they are still called web logs back then) wasn’t used by ordinary persons, or marketers, or companies. They are originally used and created by…scientists… in an effort to publish findings (and so the history of internet too) to compare and broadcast them to the whole scientific community. That’s why it’s called web logs in the first place. Unlike scientists, let’s admit it, we don’t really have much of a hefty reason.
Now came the 20th century, web logs blogs have evolved so much that those scientists might even be at a loss to what blogging means right now.

I cannot even begin to understand how the evolution of blogging took place. Back when I started blogging (2007), a lot of well-established blogs are already up and running. Google is already a large empire and I think Feedburner had been bought by them around that time. There where already dot com moguls dominating the free web, and I don’t even know what else had I been missing being a young blogger myself.

Wordpress, Blogger, Typed, Livejournal… all these blogging platforms had already written their own piece of internet history. Of course, I was there already when the whole blogging platform wars ensued. It’s relatively a well fought battle back then between the leading contenders, namely: Wordpress and Blogger. If you’re new to blogging, you would have been amazed at the time when everyone kept posting Wordpress Vs. Google posts back in 2007.

Of course, we all knew who won. If it isn’t obvious enough, “W” stands for “Winner”. That decision too made Matt (founder) one of the world’s richest young entrepreneurs. All thanks to blogging and the market force it had become.

Speaking of market force, that’s one label that many bloggers soon found their luck on. For some, luck might be an understatement as it was a goldmine that they have harvested in it (right Jeremy, John Chow and the likes?).

Every public relations analyst and real world marketer predicted the glorious faith tool that blogging has become. The whole dot com industry was swept by it. Companies started to found their own blogs, soon an enormous army of bloggers went with the flow and the whole thing became a driving force to reckon with. Advertisers focused their campaigns on blogs, marketers exploited the new industry with their products, bloggers themselves founded their own business and everybody simply doesn’t want to get left behind.

It’s been one dizzy, spellbinding evolution.

Now, where are the scientists and their web logs? Well, they moved on to their now favorite avenue- online publications. Who knows, they might not even recognize their former web logs that turned into blogs right now.

What happened to the original web logs? They evolved to blogs. I bet, some smart guy figured out he can make money out of it. As always in the internet.
[photo credit: mars discovery district]

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The Three Things Every Blogger Needs to Understand About Social Networking

I can't even describe how big of a role social networking is to blogging nowadays. For some critics, social networking might just be the new blogging or worse, the start of blogging decay. Whichever way you look at it, only one thing is very clear - that social networking is there to stay. Now, we bloggers are on the rush to use this new tool. But before you dive head fast to the craze, know what you have to know first.

Name me a person who doesn't have Facebook or Twitter

Some people might brag about this that they don't actually have an account. Anyways, let's go straight to the point almost everyone has one. Meaning, social neworking is a place where literally millions of people from all views and walks of life converge together. Marketing people might even call it as the "target market haven" precisely because whatever you do, you're sure to find an audience in there.

How bloggers behave in social networking

The first thing you have to know is to how we behave on these sites, later on, I'll show to you why that behavior greatly affects the outputs. Basically, we bloggers extensively promote in social networking sites. On some extreme cases, a number of bloggers even do heavy spamming without any respect to the community of people especially to the most basic terms of services (TOS). Twitter is a very good example of this case which kinda tell you why I bulk unfollowed 1,831 people months ago.

How people respond to bloggers in social networking
Here comes the funny thing. Still an overwhelming number of social networking users have very little grasp on the concept of what 'professional blogging' really is about (their aint idea revolves around things like Facebook notes, Myspace, and Livejournal blogs). So, what does this mean? Now here comes the simple truths.

ONE: Social networking for probloggers could be pointless.
Why? because usually your contacts here will still be the very same bloggers you know. That's a very interesting thing that I've noticed really. Especially for niches like blogging tips, make money online, internet marketing etc., no normal person would really understand the linggo used (unless he starts to get real interested). But of course, the obvious use to would be the using it as a tool for your campaigns (like new posts, announcements, etc.).

TWO: Personal blogs leads in using social networking sites
You have to understand, the very reason why social networking sites are in boom is because people can connect and share their personal thoughts with people they know. It's an interaction gone online. And this is the main advantage of personal blogs and bloggers who covers topics about normal day-to-day living. Compare shopping tips blog from an seo blog for example. Who would care about things like page rank and google bots anyway except we bloggers? Now, talk about shopping tips and in an instant, you get to have people who's going to be interested about it simply because it's a normal activity everyone can relate too.

The lesson here is that if your blogging about relatively common, normal things in everyday life, social networking will work out best for you.

THREE: People from social network sites take LESS action [important]
It's a trend bloggers are seeing when it comes to promoting via social networking. ProBlogger Darren Rowse for example, when he released his 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook specifically noticed it. The rationale behind it is that SN sites are built and are used for the purpose of leisure. You can't expect everyone to take you seriously simply because they're not even serious when they are on SN mode.

In conclusion, one can always say that social networking sites as a promotional tool is a very powerful one. But like any marketing principle would tell you, you have to learn first the behavior of people using it and your own way of using it. It's how you try to create an even better technique for your own blog's sake.

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UK's Internet Marketing Tycoon | Cutting Edge Performance by Top Click Media

This - my comeback post will probably be one of the hardest post that I'm going to write. And yes, it's a review. The intimidating part is that I'm going to review a company hundred times bigger than the other blogs or company I've reviewed before. Here it goes, today, let's have a look at Top Click Media - UK's top and one of the world's leading Internet Marketing company ever.

THE NAME IS TOP CLICK MEDIA

Last time, I've been bragging about my Page Rank 3 increase. Well, to this company, what I've rooted for almost a long time is a piece of cake. The guys here lives and breathes search engine optimization. But of course, seo companies are mushroom-sprouting in numbers right now? So what sets Top Click Media apart? The answer - everything.

Unlike others companies, Top Click Media caters to the 'top', serious, professional and driven companies all over the world (and they're the kings of internet marketing in UK). That would mean if your all about pushing your business forward, this is the place to go.

Top Click Media is a company that would offer you with any possible service related to internet marketing. They have four core services though, and these are:

Pay Per Click - effective pay per click management is their secret to increasing the revenues of their customers (and we're talking about large-digit-number of profits gained)

Search Engine Optimization - they have guys who might as well be working with Google's search engine labs. And yes, they do give out free search engine optimisation advice too. You can't miss out on that one.

Web Design and Development - assured of simply professional website design. There are many perks in this service, but the thing that stands out most is their unlimited (yes!) revisions policy - they work until YOU are happy.

Social Network Marketing - we know how big social networking right now is. And to no surprise, they're experts in this field too. Facebook is their specialty - and with Facebook, you can't go wrong marketing in it.

You can't go wrong with any of their services. For one, having an arsenal of experts on their bench is enough to guarantee you that whatever you expect, they can surpass it. Their track record and credibility is rarely among those spotless and shining with records. Certainly being recognized as an Adwords certified company can tell the whole story.


The Search Engine Marketing Blog

at: http://www.topclickmedia.co.uk/top-click-media-staff-blog/ is the official blog of their staff and this is the site I take special interest in. You might have noticed, the term 'Search Engine Marketing' is still not widespread in our online linggo. I'd like to see these guys take the lead into introducing what this concept is all about.

Go over there and you can really find interesting posts from top internet marketing people. To end, let me quote a couple of lines from Top Click Media

Top Click Media have both the experience and expertise in internet marketing and have a proven track record in paid and natural search campaigns across the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

Now, you know where to go for your internet marketing woes. And before you go somewhere else, go grab your free PPC consultation now - only from Top Click Media.

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Your YoungBlogger is Officially Back! Plus, We’re Now Page Rank 3 and I’m Giving Away Free Backlinks!

Friends, fellow bloggers, readers, and to everyone else who tunes in on this blog, I’m happy to announce that my long leave is over. Yep. You heard that right. Liane is now back to blog for you! It was quite a long leave to be honest (the first and the longest that I’ve been). Still, it was all worth it. You see, our contingent won as champions in the debate competition. And here online, it looks like I won a PR3 too!

For the most part of the leave, I used it to readjust myself to my second semester (which have just begun). I have to say, I’ve never been any busier than I am now. Squeezing in blogging, let alone finding the time, is hard enough. But see, blogging is a promise I always try to keep. There’s a bad news and a good news for this. The bad news is that I might be having lower posting frequencies now for me to cope up with everything that I have to in real life. The good news is, well, I’m back! I hope that’s enough of a good news to you.

This Blog is Now Page Rank 3!

I was quite surprised when I checked my SEO reports a few days ago and saw my increase in rankings over a lot of major keywords (like blogging tips). To validate my suspicion, I rushed over prcheker.info and immediately discovered that Better Blogging for Bloggers Dot Com has upgraded to Page Rank 3! What a nice comeback reward for me.

See my tips:
>> How to get your blog easily picked up by search engines
>> How to acheive good google page rank without simply caring about seo
>> Avoid getting punished by search engines
>> Optimizing search engine results by establishing connections
>> Go up the ranks - the zero spending challenge

We’re on a Celebration Mode!

So to celebrate my official comeback to blogging and of course is my jump in page rank, I figured out, why not give a special treat? Because I know many of you are concerned with seo and also because I want to share my own success in page rank improvement, I’m giving away free backlinks!

Who Wants Free Backlinks?

I’ll link to anyone who’s interested. I feel really generous right now, the backlink will be the domain name of your blog plus a keyword of your choice.

Example: Blogging Tips | Better Blogging for Bloggers Dot Com

And yes, I’m even allowing you to use the keyword Blogging Tips (if that’s your niche) even if it might be considered as competition for seo. No worries there. It’s all yours for the taking.

How to Get a Free Backlink?

It’s easy. Just subscribe to my blog and follow me on Twitter. Leave a comment below if you’re done and please indicate your domain name and keyword. Also, it’s important that you type the email address you used to subscribe in your comment (so that I can verify if you really have confirmed your subscription). For twitter, it's important that you retweet this post for me to verify you. The backlinks will be placed in this post... and here it is!

LIANE'S LINK LOVE LIST:

♦Blog | BlogrPro Dot Com
♦Blogging Tips | Tycoon Blogger Dot Com
♦Article Marketing | Jim Clary Marketing Dot Com
♦Earning Money Online | Online Money Buzz Dot Com
♦GO Zone | Go Zone Gateway Dot Com
♦ChoosyInfo | Choosy Info Dot Com
♦Blogger Profile | Already Inspired Dot Com
♦Blogging Tips for Newbie | Ysfirdaus Dot Com
♦Bash Your Co-Worker | Bash Your Co-Worker Dot Com
♦God and You | H3sean Dot Com

Will be waiting for your more comments! Gee, I’m really happy to be back!

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