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Nativespace Hosting
UK hosting with good support. CMS-friendly servers and
good SEO features. Correct PHP security settings, unlike vast numbers
of hosts. Sensible tech features such as 10 free SQL databases on
the average account (5 MySQL, 5 PostgreSQL), an excellent Control
Panel, and unique IPs available. Our tip for the best UK value-account
LAMP server CMS host. About 200 sites per server, so medium speed. Ecommerce supported.
1st Easy Ecommerce Hosts
One of the UK's largest ecommerce specialist hosts. Secure servers, Verisign authenticated, the best tech support available. Miva, osCommerce, and other hosted solutions. Dedicated servers from £99/month. High-quality shared hosting with a max of 50 sites per server, and fast servers as a result. Excellent security.
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Logaholic Web Analytics
Logaholic are the big mover in the world of stats right now: see our Statistics-2 page for why we think they are better than Google Analytics and AWstats put together. It runs on your own server, so you own the data. At $67 currently, it won't break the bank. There are several different options including a Desktop client and a Hosted version.
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24-hour Free Website Monitoring
Your website uptime monitored - the online status of your website checked 24/7/365 - email sent to you if it goes down. It's free and it stops your business crashing. We recommend Mon.itor.Us for a free server monitoring service.
Website Monitoring by Alertra
If you need a professional service, this is the one we recommend. The basic service is first class, though there may be some specific tests that one or two others may do better (certain security tests for example).
The world #1 CMS. The perfect example of the quality of OSS software: a combination of free and commercial resources. Around 4,500 plugins and a similar number of templates make this the most extensible CMS on the planet. Good code, the dev core team are on the case, 3PD devs are the biggest such group existing, a vast number of both free and very cheap extensions. Build an ecommerce store or a web video centre - or nearly anything else. The king of multimedia publishing tools, though not for use where good ACL is needed.
Joomla SEF URLs and metadata
The sh404 search-friendly URLs and custom metadata plugin is the icing on the cake for Joomla. You can have flat html page addresses, and unique page titles and descriptions. It's got to be the first extension you add to the CMS - everything else is secondary to this.
One of the few places where art and web dev technology meet. Some fine artists can be found there, and some good devs. Argue about which of the two is more important!
Web DevelopmentLP Web Development build high-quality CMS and ecommerce websites. Adwords TrainingOn-site Adwords training courses for UK companies, and distance learning courses for US and other clients. Adwords Magic have the best PPC training resources available, and also provide Adwords management, with more than £1m annual spend currently managed.
Search Optimising Resources
We don't normally list SEO links for two reasons: there are a lot of them; and material tends to be biased toward the viewpoint of the site owner. A flat and journalistic reportage style would help, but of course it is unrealistic to expect people not to prioritise their own viewpoint or services on their own sites - we certainly do. However, in some cases there are useful 'neutral' or invaluable resources that should be referenced. We'll add to this list as and when they are encountered. See the page on banned websites for specific resources, and search engine quality guidelines.
Average SEO fees
A round-up of average SEO costs from randfish.
Link value measurement
A useful round-up of current opinion on the value of various link types from people in the know. Nothing on link strategy here, but some interesting opinions from those who specialise in this area, and other industry names.
Search engineer's blog
There is so little communication from SEs, especially on any useful technical topics, that anything is worth reading. In this case, Matt Cutts being the head of Google's anti-spam department, we should not ignore it.
Live Search Webmaster Center Forums
Finally, a representative of one of the Big 3 search engines is communicating with website owners. Jeremiah Andrick, Program Manager at LiveSearch (MSN), engages with forum users on their search problems. Go there and be suitably grateful; he has done what his competitors couldn't achieve.
How to choose an SEO consultant
Lots of good info and links here from people who know the business. Some good questions here on what to ask your proposed contractor. The only beef I have with this is that it's mainly relevant within the industry itself, since only an expert might understand the questions or be able to put a value on the answers. At any rate, looking at the way they know how to ask the right questions, I'd also say they were pretty competent in the SEO field. Some good real-world values here instead of the usual stuff from those who don't really know - or 'seat-fillers' as they so aptly put it. That's corporate SEO for you...
How to recognise a bad SEO firm
This is more like it, from the client's point of view. A good list of crazy things that ignorant pseudo-SEO people do. Many are given from a personal point of view, so they may not translate to the real world too well - it's hard to believe some of these are real. Still, anything's possible in SEO. I'd add to the list: can't rank their own website for any terms; tell you that the marketing aspect is more important; tell you that usability is a separate issue.
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