Web Development Blog

People who have been using search engines since the ’90s remember seeing spam and/or irrelevant sites constantly mixed with legitimate search results. As search engine technology has evolved, it’s become harder to game the system, and search results have become a lot cleaner and more relevant. However, spam is still alive and well in the search engines.

Some people go to a lot of risk and trouble to manipulate the system. Yet in many if not most cases, it just isn’t worth it. Before I talk about some reasons why, let me start with a classic example.

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There are a lot of hosting companies. Too many, in my opinion. Competition has decreased prices - which is great - but the industry has also been overrun with cheap, fly by night companies whose reliability and customer service leaves something to be desired.

The company that hosts your site will either help or hurt your business, depending on the reliability with which they deliver your content to visitors. So before you choose a host, there are some important questions you should ask.

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We are seeing a growing number of people who don’t have control of their own website. What I mean is that there are a lot of companies who have paid good money to have a website developed, and now they’re paying $50 a month or more to have it hosted and updated. The only problem is, it’s not being updated, or the hosting is unreliable, or they can’t get answers when they have a server crash or email problems.

In this article, I’m going to discuss this problem a little bit, and show you how to avoid it.

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You’ve probably seen the ads: Websites for $59! Sometimes more, sometimes less. Often, these sites are pretty slick - I really love a lot of the designs myself.

There’s only one problem.

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