Gerald Faustia asked:


Selecting a web host for a smaller business verses a larger business can be different in several ways, because often time a smaller businesses website is smaller and less complex then a website a larger business might have. Also, while a larger business can afford to “shoot the works” and can easily afford to pay for extra features and services that they may not even use, a smaller business owner will tend to like to keep a closer watch on the expenditures with regards to their web hosting services.

Just heading out blindly on the net looking for a web hosting service can be difficult, because there are so many of them and they all offer a wide variety of features and services as well as prices. It is for this reason that you need to study up a bit on web hosting services and come to a determination as to what you do and don’t need in your web hosting service features and functions.

There are many basic plans that are in the $5 price range that you may qualify for if you are a small business owner but they have absolute minimum services and features. If you have a business website that has less than one-hundred pages and you don’t plan on doing any Internet marketing then you may want to consider one of these easy to find “entry level” plans.

One of these entry level,plans would work great if your website is not going to have any streaming videos in it and is a basic and simple website. You might also want to consider what is referred to as shared hosting and these plans are in the $10 price range. Feature advantages of a shared hosting is that they have broader bandwidth and storage capacity compared to a standard plan.

If you are going to be using your website for Internet marketing then you will definitely want to give some thought to your strategy for SEO or search engine optimization. Far too many new Internet business people think that the products or service that they are going to market on the net are so in demand that they won’t have to do much in the way of promoting, because they will “catch fire” and take off on their own.

This is almost virtually without exception a mistake and you will have to do some promoting of your website with SEO like it or not. You will have no problem locating a web hosting service that offers SEO services but it will cost you money. The other option is to do the SEO yourself in which case you will need certain tools made available by your web hosting service.

One thing that you will want to know is whether or not your hosting service currently creates site maps and if they automatically ping Yahoo, Google and Ask after you have upgraded or added a page to your website. There are a few other tools that you will need to have to do your own SEO but the best way to find out about them is to take the time to research SEO tools on the net and learn about them.



Teresa

Gerald Faustia asked:


When the small business owner is looking for a web hosting service there are a few things that they have to consider that the owner of a larger business won’t have to take into account. The reason for this is among other things, a smaller business will tend to have a smaller less complex website that they need to have hosted.

When a larger business owner researches web hosting services for their web site, often their main concern is how many feature and services that the web hosting service has to offer. The smaller business owner however; will be much more interested in keeping an eye on the bottom line and will want only the minimum amount of services and features that they will absolutely need.

Due to the fact that there are so many web hosting services on the net and they will each offer a wide range of services and options, just blindly searching through all of the hosting options that are available on the net can be very difficult and confusing to say the least. Finding a web hosting plan in the $5 range for a small business owner is no problem at all but they are service plans that are designed for the simplest websites that have minimal requirements.

If your website is under one-hundred pages and doesn’t have any streaming videos than one of these basic plans may work just fine for you. One option that you may want to consider if you have more content in your website and a basic plan just wont do is to opt for a shared hosting plan as they will have more bandwidth and memory capacity.

However; there are other things to consider other then the technical aspects of a web hosting service, particularly if you are going to be using your website for active Internet marketing. If your website is only being used for advertisement or marketing of services and products only in your local community that is one thing but if you are planning on branching out on the net then you have other factors to consider.

One of the biggest things that you will have to take into account is SEO which is the abbreviation for search engine optimization. Basically, search engine optimization is the way that you are going to compete with similar business on the Internet. There are two ways to go about SEO and one is to pay your web host or an SEO service to do it or you can do it yourself.

Either way you should do your best to become familiar with SEO techniques and service requirements before you head into it. The reason for this is that there are basic tools and services that you will need a web host to have if you are going to be doing your own SEO. There are several methods of SEO and a web hosing service that offers SEO services will offer them at various prices.



Cheryl