Improve Your Backlinks and Alexa Rank in Minutes

Written by on April 12, 2011 in Help & Tips, Search Engine Optimization - Comments Off
Alexa Backlinks

You have a lot of tricks at your disposal when it comes to increasing your Alexa rank, but few of them are as easy and rewarding (results in days) as this one. With a couple of minutes each day, you can quickly increase your Alexa traffic rank while creating backlinks at the same time.

The following is a list of website URL’s that you simply need to copy and paste into your web browser. Obviously you will want to replace the domain name in the link with your own website URL.

Once I have a new website optimized and ready for launch, this is generally my first task on my SEO list of things to do. It’s proven to work!

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5 Reasons Why Your Customer Service Sucks

Written by on March 29, 2011 in Business, Ramblings - 1 Comment
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I figured I would try something new tonight. I’m angry… furious actually. I’m so sick and tired of dealing with companies that just flat out suck when it comes to customer service. Is it really that hard to provide adequate updates for someone? Is it wrong to expect a company to contact you proactively if they break something? Not in my books…

It’s no secret that I have always strived to provide the best customer service possible to anyone I’m assisting. Whether it’s a support ticket online, a PC repair offline or even dealing with my grandma… I always stay in touch, keep proactive and basically bend over backwards to make whomever I’m dealing with feel 100% relaxed, knowing I have things under control at all times. If only this same model could be applied by other companies.

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Boost SEO with Google Webmaster Tools and a Sitemap

Written by on March 27, 2011 in Help & Tips, Search Engine Optimization, WordPress - Comments Off
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Are you using a Sitemap on your website right now? Do you have it connected with your Google Webmaster Tools account? If you answered no to either of these questions then I suggest you continue reading and I’ll do my best to get you headed in the right direction. I’m still learning about Sitemaps and their benefits but I can vouch for the fact that ever since I began using them, I’ve seen increased search engine traffic, cleaner listings and rapid indexing of new website content.

So what exactly is a Sitemap and why should you use one?

Sitemaps are the definitive way to inform search engines about all the pages on your website. The Sitemap file is basically a list of every page on your website. According to the Google website, the benefit of using a Sitemap is to:

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Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins – Recommended

Written by on March 26, 2011 in Help & Tips, Search Engine Optimization, WordPress - 9 Comments
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It’s no secret that the more I use WordPress the more I fall in love with it. The versatility and control I have when using WordPress makes doing any website task as simple as possible. However, what really makes WordPress amazing is the community support for Plugins, Widgets and thousands of other customizations. These community supported addons allow people such as myself (I suck at coding) the ability to improve our websites with just a few easy clicks.

I’ve put together a list of my Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins that I feel would be beneficial for any website owner running WordPress. If you’re not familiar with the term SEO it stands for Search Engine Optimization which refers to how well your website is “optimized” for Google, Yahoo, Bing and all the other search engines on the Internet. Why is SEO optimization important? It’s proven that the more optimized your website, the better your search engine rankings. That would mean more traffic which means more sales. Pretty awesome stuff for free and for 10-20 minutes of your time to setup!

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Multiple domain hosting with a dash of unlimited diskspace.

Written by on March 23, 2011 in Help & Tips - Comments Off
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I had a call earlier today from a contact I used to deal with about 4 years ago. His current web hosting plans are coming up for renewal and he was curious about our new company and what we could possibly offer him. I was game for a chat!

About 10 minutes into our little discussion he started asking about multiple domain hosting. He was more intrigued by what it was and how it could benefit him. If you’re not sure what multiple domain hosting is, it’s basically the ability to host multiple websites from a single hosting account. Anyways, back to how it could benefit him. Being the owner of 3 different WordPress blogs he could easily move onto our Enhanced plan and cancel out his 3 separate hosting plans that he has setup with a larger provider. This was going to be easier on his wallet and easier to manage as well!

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Website migrations, memcached and roundcube. Exciting!

Written by on March 23, 2011 in Ramblings - Comments Off
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Free website migration is one of our main selling features here at EvenDivide. We literally take over EVERY aspect of moving a new clients website and take pride in getting it back online, ERROR FREE. For many of our competitors, this process doesn’t go beyond direct cPanel to cPanel transfers. For us, it’s all about making our new clients happy.

Yesterday we had a new client signup that was a running a Drupal based website with a large name provider. Unfortunately the Drupal website was crawling which made the backup process pretty rough but after some waiting I had the files and .sql backups required for a restore. I uploaded the Drupal backup files to our server, loaded up the sql, modified the config files and a few permissions… VOILA! Client back online. Unfortunately this client has his domain hosted with a registrar that is NOTORIOUSLY slow with DNS changes. However, after about 16 hours the domain was finally pointing to our server. Here’s the response I received today after the new client noticed his website was loading from our server.

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