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Managed SEO Web Hosting

SEO Web Hosting is so different from regular web hosting that it cannot be compared in terms of price. SEO web hosting is a new bundle of services that saves you money, time, training expenses and hassle.   The idea of SEO web hosting came about by helping clients, one-on-one.  SEO Web Hosting by nature requires a personal relationship with the business that we represent. Therefore, we can only take on so many clients. Just like a lawyer represents you in court, we represent you on the web, and often in other spheres of a technological nature. This page explains how we integrate Web Hosting with other aspects of SEO, to maximize your page rank in search engines, like Google.

One on One Service

As a small business, common sense, follow through, and a customization come naturally.  Large companies can not make this claim.  Like most web hosts, we rent space from a large company, and we manage it for you.  So you get the best that both a large and small business has to offer.  You know that your web site will be up, and your email will actually get to you (which goes beyond web hosting).  You also know that you have your own consultant who is looking out for you.  Here is how:

We set it up, keep it safe, and keep an eye out

Since we are making your web site, and/or will be editing/updating or upgrading your web site, we can offer a level of convenience and personal service that no other web host can provide:

1. Managed hosting – You don’t worry about setting the email, DNS, FTP, SPAM filtering, etc. We handle all that.  In fact, we will continue to manage all of it for you.
2. Monitored hosting –
1. Is the site really up? 
2. Is the code of your site suddenly vulnerable to a new security threat?
3. Is your site attracting visitors?  How?  How many? From where? Are they actually contacting you? (SEO)
3. Monitored email – Did you get the email from your web site?

Someone real

The 3 questions above are critical.  But who is asking them?  Who is checking?  Someone you know?  Or someone you don’t know?  Someone different every time you call?  When you call you hear “press 1 for hold, press 2 to wait even longer, or press 3 to get hung up on”? Managed SEO Web Hosting means that we manage the web hosting for you. We are asking the 3 questions above, and finding answers, or solutions as needed.  If you call, we ’we will probably answer our cell.  You have our number. 

Monitored hosting:  We are all staying up

What do all of the following have in common?

1. Our web site and email
2. Our other client’s web site and email
3. Your new web site and your email

That’s right!  They are all hosted on our web server.  So, if our email or web site goes down, we know yours has too.  Then we call and “press 1 for hold, press 2 to wait even longer”, until it is fixed.  Do not worry:  That has never happened before with our managed hosting server. 

Cheaper alternatives; AKA “web hosting on your own”

We used to try to find the best value for our clients in terms of less expensive hosting. We went from the “best one” to the new “best one” 4 times before we decided that you get what you pay for.  99% uptime is a lie.  We decided to do our own hosting for our SEO web sites. You can hire your own web host, but make sure that you are aware of how it might affect the overall marketing impact of your web site.

Monitored Email

If someone you do not know tells you that your web site or email will never have problems, do not believe them.  “Stuff” happens.  With monitored email, we make sure that you actually get your emailed sales leads from your web site.  No other web host helps with this.

Did you get the email?

1. Someone important fills out your “contact us” form, which emails sales@yourdomainname.com. That is set up to CC me (unless you don’t want me to).
2. Your personal email is blocking email from your web site, but you have no way of knowing this.
3. I get the emailed sales lead, and also a warning email, telling me that the message could not reach you@yourdomainname.com.
4. I call you and explain the situation.
5. I forward the email to another email account of yours that works.
6. I help you fix the problem that was causing it. 
1. It was probably your ISP blocking SPAM.  That’s because you have your youdomainname.com email forwarded to you@yourISP.net. 
2. So we help you add you@yourdomainname.com to your MS Outlook client.  Now you get email directly from your site.
3. Until your MS Outlook email client puts web site email it in the SPAM folder.  Then we set Outlook to not do that.

Many problems may arise with web site email.  No web host has control over these problems.  If it looks like an important sales lead, we might contact you to make sure you got it.  From your web site, to your inbox, we make sure the email makes it.  Who else does that?

Search Engine Optimization Analysis

What is the point of a web site anyway?  Is it the hope that users of your web site will contact you?  We think so. 

We would expect the number of leads emailed to you from your “contact us” form on your web site to increase as a result of the addition of more SEO services.  Who is going to keep up with that?  We do.  This is one of the methods that we use to measure the effectiveness of SEO on your site. 

Why does no other web host keep up with this?  Probably because they do not really know you, and you do not really know them.  I might ask you if an email came from a perfect stranger. This helps guide Search Engine Optimization Consulting.  This takes time, which costs money.

Monitored Hosting

Site email from perfect strangers may be the goal of SEO.  However, it is not the only way to measure its effectiveness and make recommendations for improvement.  SEO analysis tools like Google Analytics play an important role as well.  Site statistics such as:

1. number of visitors
2. length of visit
3. keyword phrase that landed them on your site
4. the page they were referred from

These factors tell me how to tune your web site for SEO.  However, most clients will not really look at that.  So we do that for them. Your web host always stores this information. There is no need to slow your site down with Google analytics. Your own web server knows what it did.

Site Promotion

Don't throw big money into radio ads without even considering any of the above factors, or even contacting me.  If the radio listener can remember your URL, www.IcantRememberOrSpellYourWebAddress.com, they may misspell it.  That is why you may need to have multiple domains; some of them misspellings; such as:  http://www.icantrememberorspellyourwebadress.com. 

Suppose the interested radio listener does not give up, and knows enough to Google the parts of your web address that they remember.  Depending on how many SEO services you have purchased, and how well we have tuned them, they may find you through the search engine. 

As you can see, site promotion needs to be a unified effort between the web host (us), the web developer (us), the SEO consultant (us), and the client (you).  Who else can provide such a unified array of services?

Technical Services

Notifications that you don’t know what to do with

Clients who try to procure their own web hosting get emails from their web hosts like, “Virus threatens your web site, please upgrade to PHP 5.0”.  If you do not know what this means, don’t worry we will take care of it.  When there is a need for a security upgrade on your web site or web application, we will be notified of it. We will know what to do.

Adding applications

I have the freedom to upgrade your site and even do customized programming on your site because of the robust web hosting environment that we have chosen.  If you choose your own web host, it may not allow me this freedom. 

Moving code from one web host to another can sometimes be difficult, especially since our more advanced code might not work on a less expensive web host, which was intended only for simple web sites.

Also, other web hosts may not support additional features to your web site, such as:

Example Applications

Or, they may support them for now, but later send you an email saying that they no longer will unless you follow some very technical procedures.

FAQ: Or, actually, “Questions we’ve Never Been Asked”:

1. What if I would rather start off by putting our site on another web host?  We can do that. We can mount your site onto a different host of your choice at our usual consulting rate.  There will be a set up fee of at least $100.  How much it costs will depend on the similarity between your new web server and ours.
2. What if we want to change to another web host?  No problem.  After you complete your paid term, we can move your site onto a different host of your choice at our usual consulting rate.  How much it costs will depend on the similarity between your new web server and ours.
3. What if I want to hire a different webmaster?  You have the login and password for your domain name. We have it too, in case you lose it.  Your new webmaster can use this to point your domain name toward your new web site, wherever you or they host it.  If you want to stay with our hosting, that is even easier for your new webmaster. We will give them access to your account.
4. Do I own our web site?  Sure.  If you hire a different webmaster, we will send them your web site. 

Now what?

Click here and follow the instructions. Web hosting is what lets you see your web site.  So don’t forget to pay for it!