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Blogging: Selecting Your Webhost

Guest post by: Jamaal Abdul-Ali

Article Overview: Understanding what a web-host is, what it does, how to choose the best service provider to fit your blogging needs.

Blogging: Selecting Your Webhost

In this, the last entry in the series of five centered around blogging and the essential elements you need to get started, we bring you Web-Hosting.

So, what is web-hosting anyway? Well, simply put, it is a Internet storage service that gives you, me, businesses and organizations the ability to publish blogs and websites online. By providing rented space on their servers, for a small fee i may add, hosting companies allow clients to store their personal website.

Therefore, any website on the World Wide Web is stored on someones server somewhere in the world. If you are looking to create a presence on the Internet finding and establishing a web-host is a requirement.

Many different types of hosting services are available depending on your needs. The first thing you to do is ask yourself some questions. For instance, "how much money do i want to spend?', "how much traffic do i anticipate having?", whats my objective for the site?", etc. It should be noted here that 90% of all websites online all work perfectly with a shared hosting plan.

What to look for in a Web-host? Factors that need to be considered are, firstly, does the host offer a monthly rate i can afford (this is hardly ever a issue), secondly, you look for a host that has proven, stable and reliable servers and support. With the many reviews available you can easily gather this information. I encourage you to spend some time researching and reviewing the companies providing these services. There are some great choices available for $3.95 per month, so, there really is no need for the majority of folks to ever pay more than$7-8 bucks per month.

According to AlreadyHosting, a independent web-hosting review company, the top ten web-hosting companies are as follows: 1. BlueHost $3.95, 2. HostMonster $3.95, 3. JustHost $3.45, 4. HostGator, (my host) $4.95, 5. FatCow $3.67, 6. InMotionHosting $6.95, 7. iPage $3.50, 8. GreenGeek $6.95, 9. FastDomain $3.95, 10. WebHostPad $1.99.

In the end it will all come down to who best fits your needs, as you can see from the above, pricing probably wont be an issue, and as i said earlier, 90% of you will use a shared hosting plan. All of the above mentioned service providers will make excellent choices.

There you have it, i have attempted in this series to give you a basic but thorough working knowledge of blogging, the essential elements needed to be fully functional, the many choices at your disposal, how everything works together and most importantly, just how powerful the marketing strategy of blogging is and why you need to incorporate it into your Internet Marketing Strategy.

I hope i have educated and added value to your experience, stay tuned.

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Re: Best Internet Marketing Strategy - Hi David, I agree about the Blogosphere. You have a smaller group that Blog, but do so on the premise that they think they should, but have never really considered the purpose of their Blog. Then I think there are a few SEO or Internet Marketing types that see Blogging as just another link building strategy. But the largest group of Bloggers, tend to be people who enjoy writing and discussing their topics of interest. Blogging is good for link building, but the true Blogger is a breed apart from the rest. They want to dialog, to debate, to have feedback and they are very willing to link to other worthwhile conversations that are relevant to their topic. I agree with you. These group of Bloggers obviously are passionate about their writing and together, they create huge conversation trails interactive and travel from Blog to Blog. But the evidence is clear with this group that loves what they write about. With comments enabled on a Blog and having a Blog tuned to a specific purpose you already have the evidence of original Social Media.
Use of Blogging For Promotion - Blogging might not be the easiest promotion and advertising method however it certainly is one of the cheapest methods. All you need is a hosting package and a domain. Actually you could do it through Blogger and it would be free of charge.
Site promotion and Blogging - Blogging might not be the easiest promotion and advertising method however it certainly is one of the cheapest methods. All you need is a hosting package and a domain. Actually you could do it through Blogger and it would be free of charge
Re: What are the ways to start a business with a small capital? - Blogging stands to be the cheapest way to start. I really agreed with the previous posts. Then you have to really analyse the market you are targeting by this you will be able to spend less in promoting your products. Cheers!


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