Its not new, hostgator had been on twitter for few months, and they are even promoting about this as well. From hostgator homepage, footer right section you will find the link to the hostgator twitter page. Twitter is a very good viral marketing tools for your online business, and before this we even blogged about using twitter for your business. its getting more famous and gaining huge users in short years, there are even twitter user accessing from mobile devices. And you can reach those customers of yours via twitter and they can reply back to you via twitter as well, its a public access open conversation.

Due to this unique characteristic, its suitable for your customer support use. you can use twitter to communicate with multiple customers at one time, and reply back to them instantly. It help you to reach out new customers too. these are few reason business are going twitter and growing from there.

If you require helps on your hostgator hosting, and you got a twitter account, you can tweets on twitter. Hostgator hosting is $4.95 per month and with 20% off, use the hostgator coupon from here. And now you can get support from their twitter page.

Since I now have 200 podcasts under my belt, and with a new year coming up quick, I thought now would be the perfect time to introduce to you my new project.? I want to help you with marketing.

Mitch Does Marketing!

Now, I will not create a new podcast or a blog.? Instead I am going back to my roots, and diving back into producing another book – shades of the long forgotten Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting, which was the inspiration for this podcast four years ago.

So what can you expect? I’m not really sure just yet, other than I am looking to offer to the public at large tutorials, tips and advice on how to market your web site or online business, with as little cost to you as possible.? think of it as a good ol’ southern boy’s guide to marketing.

As soon as I have more information on the project, I’ll be sure to share it with you here.? I hope it is as successful as my other projects are, and that most of all, you will get plenty of use out of it.

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(The Hosting News) – Opus Interactive hired Steve Cronburg as Systems Administrator. an industry veteran with? 9 years of experience working with clients across all facets of IT, including hardware, software and network troubleshooting. He is the newest member of a growing Network Operations Center staff that delivers hands-on customer service for Opus Interactive?s hosting clientele.

?we?re excited to have Steve join our team,? said Brady Wilson, CTO of Opus Interactive. ?One of our competitive differentiators is our strong, hands-on customer service. He brings a wealth of diverse experience to our team which will help us maintain this advantage as we grow.?

?One of the things that attracted me to Opus Interactive is their plans for growing their business,? said Cronburg. ?Being part of a growing organization, and working with the talented team they have is exciting.?

Leading Managed Hosting Provider, Opus Interactive Hires New Systems Administrator

There are few famous web browser available for free, namely internet explorer, firefox, safari, chrome. These are the top web browser that is popular and used by most people. Why should you make a website that is compatible in all web browser? Its simply to make sure your website appear nicely in almost any web browser, for sure you don’t want website appear distorted or appear incorrectly right? and its important to ensure a fully functional website and content. give your visitor what you expect them to see.

Another thing to ensure beside design layout is the functionality. If your website is using javascript, double confirm that the page can appear correctly in all web browser, test them before you put it online. Its common to have javascript error or even being disabled by certain web browser and mobile devices. hence, try to avoid javascript for your website, we are not recommending it.

To simplify website design and development, you can implement CSS custom style sheet for your font and website design. CSS is where you define the font size, color, etc and you are creating the object class at here before it get implemented in your website during production work. If you are not sure what CSS is, get some homework done, and bring it to your website today.

If you are creating personal website, why not choose cms scripts like joomla and drupal, its too easy to create website using open source scripts. Or you can host a blogging site with wordpress. Host your website with hostgator hosting, 20% special discount off right now, view their web hosting spec today to belief.

HostGator has gone unlimited for Disk Storage and Bandwith with all of their shared plans. they are also offering a free dedicated IP and Private SSL with their business shared plan. use our coupon code ?HGCOUPONBLOG? and get the first month for 1 cent.

Over the past few weeks, I have been doing a lot of looking around at web sites I run, and asking myself, ?what can I do to make this web site better??.? well, after some experiments, trial and error, I have a few solutions I want to share with you.

Today I?ll hand to you four areas of your web site you can improve to get more web site visitors, have the search engines love you, and get more visitors to your web site, right here on the Web Hosting show.

Download the Web Hosting show, Episode 202!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.92 MB

Here are just a few topics from this week?s episode:

• How to Write a better Title Tag ? the title tag might be a feature many people overlook, but it is just as important as having a nice looking web site layout.? some might even say it is the most important thing, because it is often the first thing a web site visitors sees.? Today I?ll be telling you what the title tag is and what you can do to make yours better.
• Basic Writing Advice to Improve Web Page Flow ? Do your web pages flow?? by flow, I mean can you read through it without asking yourself what is this about again?? if you find yourself stopping and starting when reading your own web pages, take this basic writing advice and try it out on your own web site content.
• 6 different Content Writing Ideas ? Inspiration for a web site?s content is often hard to find.? so when I find myself in trouble, I turn towards my own list of six different content writing ideas that should help inspire you to get that new page up and running.
• Effective Web Site Navigation Rules ? A web site visitor should never be confused by your web site?s navigational layout.? Every web page out there should have an easy way to navigate both to new web pages and categories, but also back out of them.? think of it as reaching a fork in an old country road, choosing to go down the left road ? and then turning around and finding a pink hippopotamus in a tutu.

Quick Tip #3 ? Your web site?s Meta Description should contain between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included).

Delays aside, I hope this web hosting podcast is one you can enjoy.? Feel free to send me your web development or hosting questions on the submit a question page, and leave a comment to let me know you listened.

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There is no doubt that cloud computing is gaining in popularity. It seems now even Microsoft is getting into the business.

Ever wonder how interoperability is relevant to cloud computing?  the guys at Microsoft Europe have put together this great video explanation of what is is all about:

Have any other web hosting business related videos to share?  Be sure to leave them in the comments, or e-mail me at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.  Would love to highlight them right here on WebHostingShow.com.

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I’m going to share some quick facts about our business with you. HostGator currently spends:

• More than $30,000 per month advertising with Google Adwords
• More than $350,000 per month on affiliate commissions
• And $100,000’s more per year on random advertising.

When you spend as much as we do on advertising, you start to run out of places to advertise online. this has left us with no other choice but to become a lot more creative and a lot crazier with our choice of advertising venues and locations. I present to you Billy the Billboard.

Billy proudly wears the first ever permanent HostGator Tattoo on the back of his neck. Billy, an accomplished boxer and entrepreneur who is currently located in Anchorage, Alaska, sold the first chunk of his body to Goldenpalace.com. the funds were used to purchase a flight to San Diego, where he donated his kidney to a complete stranger that he met off of MatchingDonors.com. Billy has even tried to donate part of his liver to patients in need (he was denied due to having already donated a kidney).

Billy’s current goal in life is to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most advertisements tattooed on him. he currently has six tattoos and won’t be stopping until every inch of his body is sold. ?I guess I?m like a male prostitute; I sell my body,? he told me when we were talking one day.

So what does branding someone’s neck for the rest of their life go for?

We paid $3,000 for what will most likely be one of the best investments we’ve made to date. If we get one sale a year we break even. plus, with all the media attention this will generate, we should easily be able to make back ten or even a hundred times our investment in Billy’s lifetime.

Billy still has plenty of prime locations available. In fact, he’s currently taking bids to sell his forehead! If you are interested you can reach him at BoxingChampAK-at-aol.com or at his blog: Billy the Human Billboard

I believe in the potential of tattoo advertising so much I had this awesome plan to pay the first 200 people willing to get a HostGator tattoo more than $300,000 combined. Within 24 hours of the word getting around our office, I had over a dozen employees offering to sell their skin. the plan was going to be huge and the media attention was going to be even bigger!

Everything was going great until we pitched the idea to our lawyers. they basically said that it would have been impossible to protect ourselves from lawsuits, no matter what contract we came up with. they went on to say that the fact that Billy is an entertainer is completely different than the average person in need of quick cash by getting a tattoo with our logo on it.

Since the HostGator Tattoo Stimulus plan had to be killed, we are just going to have to find other ways to get our name out to the public. In the spirit of more traditional advertising, we recently signed a deal for ten billboards on some of Houston’s busiest freeways.

And even more recently we bought some air time on the High-Tech Texan show with radio personality Michael Garfield. You can listen to his show online if you’re not in Houston, and you can hear an audio clip from our advertisement here: HostGator’s Radio Ad. on High Tech Texan

We don’t want to stop here though. If you have a creative way for us to get our name out there, please let us know.

If you are looking for dedicated hosting, it probably means that you have a website that is very popular. why? for most webmasters, shared hosting will suffice. however, if you happen to have a website that’s very popular, it will invariably used more system resources. Many hosting companies preferred websites that use a lot of resources have their own dedicated server. The reason they preferred this is because it will not bring down the overall system resources of everybody else who might be on a shared server.

Over the past several years, prices for dedicated hosting have come down. This is actually a really good thing for most webmasters given the fact that it now gives them the opportunity to take advantage of a more robust hosting platform without having to spend more money. One way to figure out if you will need to use a dedicated hosting plan is to see how much CPU usage you’re incurring on a shared account.

This is one useful measure that you can use to help you determine whether or not you may be better served by moving to a dedicated hosting account. something else to consider is the fact that a lot of people don’t necessarily know or care what kind of hosting account you have in the house. All your website visitors truly care about is being able to access your website content as quickly as possible without any errors.

This presents most webmasters with an interesting decision to make. On the one hand, anybody will tell you that they like the idea of saving money. however, if saving money means that you stay with a shared hosting account that is constantly being taken off-line because you’re using too much system resources, are you really doing a favor for your visitors? Probably not. This is why dedicated hosting is really a more appropriate solution if you happen to be somebody who is operating one or more popular websites that consume a lot of bandwidth and CPU resources.

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