Monthly Archives: January 2010

Everyone who is active on the Internet eventually gets around to buying domain names and web hosting. Arrange these correctly and you won’t be overcharged or at the mercy of servers and hosting that sometimes fail. To stay in control, you need to know and follow certain rules of thumb.According to Murphy’s Law, things tend to go wrong. And they do so at the worst possible time and when you least expect it. There is a silent war going on between web hosts and hackers. The web hosts generally win, but not always. When they lose they can be offline for a week or more.Your data can be destroyed in a hacker attack. Additionally, earthquakes, fires, electrical storms, vandalism or terrorist acts can destroy servers and their data in seconds.How do you protect yourself? You need redundancy and alternative recovery routes. Protect yourself by following certain rules and guidelines. These are heretofore unwritten rules that will protect you from nasty surprises and give you maximum control an… Continue reading →

Google”s PageRank has been around for years, and in the opinions of a lot of e-business owners, it can make or break a site. Lately, with Google”s fingers in every pie, it seems important to remind everyone that there is more to a website than just PageRank. PageRank is a term that relates to the algorithm that Google uses to rank a website in its search engine. Coined by Larry Page, one of the engineers of Google, PageRank has come to mean so much to webmasters and SEO”s that it dictates how we market a website. But let me coin a few terms of my own. Or, borrow them from others, perhaps’ And while some of these concepts are included in the PageRank algorithm themselves, it”s often helpful to be reminded that there are many factors that a webmaster should concentrate on, and not just one overwhelming aspect. It bothers me that Google”s toolbar”s PageRank indicator ‘measures the IMPORTANCE’ of a page; important to them, perhaps, especially in li… Continue reading →