5 Tips for Making Your Ecommerce Site Customer Friendly
Launching and managing an ecommerce website can be overwhelming. With so many details to consider, it’s easy to overlook important aspects that are critical to the success of your site. Similar to a physical store, there are certain expectations that customers have when shopping online. If these needs are not met, your customers may not want to return to your site, or even worse, they could tell others about the poor experience they had. Here are 5 features to help keep your customers coming back for more. 1. Creating an appealing...
5 Tips for An Excellent Web Design
Ensuring that your website is well designed is essential. Think about it – websites are a visual medium. People enjoy looking at things that look nice, not sloppy and messy. The design of your website is just as important as the content you put on it. Consider the points below about web design to ensure your visitors don’t leave your site too quickly. 1. Style and Professional Design The key point to think about when choosing a style for your website is to determine what message you want to convey. The style...
The Most Undervalued Internet Marketing Strategies to Date
When asked what the secrets to their success are, owners of high-ranking websites will tell you that hard-core search engine optimization, prolific content creation, and white hat link building techniques are critical. There are even more sustainable tactics, however, that are often overlooked, unused, and simply scoffed at when marketing professionals begin their mass campaigning - tactics that can increase other vital areas while obtaining worthwhile targeted leads. Some of the most undervalued - yet most usable - internet marketing tactics we've found to still work wonders are highlighted below. Facebook...
New TLDs: .exciting as well as .challenging
In recent years, there has been a push to expand the universe of generic Top Level Domains or gTLDs for short. According to ZookNIC Intelligence, a leader in data on the registration of domain names, by the middle of 2011, approximately 45%, or 95 million domain names, were .com's. This number increases every 3 months by about 6-7 million domains. With so many .com registered domain names, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a domain name that is not already being used. This spawned the expansion of other TLDs in...
How cPanel is Addressing Backup and Transfer Security Concerns
In recent days, it's been reported that there are security concerns around cPanel's transfer and backup systems for root users. The major problem that cPanel mentions relates to users restoring data from unsecured or untrusted sources. Despite warnings from cPanel to discourage this practice, users are still restoring their data using unapproved third-party packages. Ever since feedback within the web hosting community brought this issue to light, cPanel has admitted that this is a more common practice than they first realized. As a result, cPanel developers are working on an immediate...
5 easy ways to protect yourself against hackers
Think your small business website is not high profile enough to get hacked? You thought wrong. In fact, you don't have to be Facebook, Microsoft, Sony or Apple to be the target of a hacker. HostPapa's partner SiteLock recently released a website risk report and the results revealed that the hacking of small business websites has reached nearly epidemic proportions. Contrary to what you may think, small and medium sized business websites actually appear to hackers as "low-hanging fruit"...