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by Patrick Connor, Pat

The Strategic Counsel, a polling firm located in Canada has released a report saying that most *computer addicts* rely on search engines to go to different websites, even if the web site name is easy to remember. In the survey recently done by The Strategic Counsel, it was found out that the popular search engine sites are Google, Yahoo, Lycos, and Alta Vista to locate websites that they want to visit and explore. In fact, the federal Government of Canada even paid Strategic Counsel a huge sum of sixty-five thousand dollars. The study also revealed that there's a slim or no chance at all that the people would remember the exact universal resource locator address given the existence of search engines. For most people, the easiest and fastest way to find what they are looking for is via search engines.

Search engines play a relevant role especially for those who are in the pay per click marketing industry where the rank of the sites in the search engine counts. This is actually the key weapon in earning big bucks in online business. The report published by The Strategic Counsel is vital in online business because as long search engines are thriving, pay per click marketing will flourish. It's a matter of enhancing your url and your domain names so that people will be attracted to click on your sites. Make sure that it will cause a lot of traffic, in order to profit. Search engines are useful springboards where people can go to different sites that they never imagine existed. This is also beneficial for those who own several web sites and domain names because there's a huge chance that their site is visited with the help of the search engine.

On the other hand in United Kingdom, Fasthosts has reported that United Kingdom's online businesses are shrinking because the consumers are tired of businesses that are dependent on free web hosting. Fasthosts, the top one webhost in September 2005 as conducted by Tophosts.com, found out that the usage of free web hosting do not result well in the profit of UK's online businesses. SME's or small and medium enterprises succumb to free web hosting without realizing the dangers that it could cause their business. There are still many unknown factors or aspects of free web hosting that businesses should know before they venture in it. Even if it's a free web hosting, the damages it could bring to your business is definitely high.

The reason small and medium enterprises are endangered in free web hosting is that people have a tendency not to remember your specific site since your domain name can be found in the last part of the url address, making it difficult for people to even notice. There's a rare chance that people will visit your site. There's also the problem with the search engine since it would be difficult for the engine to recognize such arduous site. According to the finding of Fasthosts, which made a survey of one hundred top free web hosts on earth, it revealed that the storage space given to small and medium enterprises are only 338 MB and that there's a restriction to the bandwidth allowances.

There's a huge possibility that small and medium enterprises would generate more expenses when they depend on free web hosting providers since the latter do not provide any safe shopping carts and ordering system. Since this is the case, they have to avail another set of security tools in order to serve better their consumers. A problem may also occur once the owner of the free web hosting decides to alter the name of the sites. Those businesses under it would have to start from the beginning since the previous customers can no longer find them. This definitely would mean lost of possible income for the small and medium enterprises.

Every small and medium enterprises are susceptible to the following disadvantages: difficulty of being located by resourceful search engines, no support for backup files, downtime every now and then which makes it not dependable servers, and absence of security to ensure product orders online.

Both the researches of Fasthosts and Strategic Counsel are helpful and informative for online industries that are sprouting anywhere. Before entering any web hosting, make sure that you're going to benefit and profit from it and not the other way around.

Domain name, what the heck? Probably there is millions of people exists out there who doesn't know or indeed have no idea about what domain name is. They aren't jerks, just because they didn't need to know what domain name is. You can fall in that category; even if you don't why don't we give a second look at domain names? Domain name is a name that can identify a web site in the World Wide Web. In web there has to be a way to identify each different web site. So the easiest way was to give a name, just as like as we call each other by our names. But it is bit different from our names. Every name has something to add on, as you have probably visited www.yahoo.com you can see 'www' followed by 'yahoo' and 'com' separated by comma (.). Now 'www' stands for world wide web and .com .net .info are domains. With 'yahoo' together they call as domain name. Domain names can be may types like .com .info .co.uk etc.

Domain name registration. You have to register your domain name to create and publish a site in World Wide Web (internet). In the past it was extremely difficult to find out affordable domain name registration. All domain name registrars used to charge around $70 to register your domain name for 2 years. ituation has changed now. Many new company offering domain name registration at an affordable cost. Some will register your domain name for less then $15 for a year. Especially if you are registering multiple domain names for multiple sites for a number of years at the same time.

Domain name registration process can be confusing if you are a first time buyer. Literally there are number of terms to worry about. But according to many experts and even to those who have gone through the process of domain name registration said domain name registration process is such an easy and quick procedure. It is easy if and only if it is coupled with the effort and interest of both the domain name consumer and domain name registrars. About domain name consumers, it is indeed true that they play a great part in the domain name registration process since it is in their hands that the success of the domain name registration depends. Of course the domain name registrar play a part in the domain name registration process for the fact that they are ones who have the power to amend and control the domain names.

Web hosting. If you want to publish your website online then all you have to do other than registering a domain name is a web hosting. This is what you really should go for a good one. If you are creating your personal website just for fun then you better go to yahoo geocities. They are good for personal no cost websites. But if you are thinking for something rocking, I mean if you are considering your website for business purpose or to make money then trust me u definitely don't need to go for a free web hosting. Ordinary web surfers like me doesn't like ads popping up in another window while they are browsing a serious site. You can get really cheap deals of web hosting out there that can be great in value. Even if you are lucky enough you can find free hosting with good proving track record that they are really good. I have once heard about a hosting service that provides free hosting without any ads. All you have to do is post at least 50 posts to their blog to get the service working for you. And they are good if you can keep up blogging.

Disk space: Doesn't matter who you are hosting with just make sure you are getting enough disk space for your site. Disk space is like as same as your PC's hard drive the more disk space do you get the bigger site you can host online. Usually in MB (megabytes) or GB (Giga bytes).

Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be retrieved still more your site within the bandwidth period. The bandwidth period is the length of time before your bandwidth is reset once again, usually reversal a month. Bandwidth is measured in MB and GB, corresponding disk space. That's all for today. Next time more information on various topics will be here.

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