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Would you ask the guy who does body work on your car to fix your engine? That is the best analogy we could come up with. More to be read below:
Information Technology personnel are usually trained in the functional aspects of computers and software. I, as a web master turn to these people when I need a computer at the office networked together with other computers or when I have a hardware or software issue I cannot easily fix on my computer. Like any field there are good I.T. people and not so good I.T. people. In the worst case scenario if you hire a bad I.T. person your email or other basic systems may not operate smoothly. In most cases a web master can fix and or help you in this area.
Web Masters are personnel who specialize in web architecture. As stated by Wikipedia their primary work is done in designing, developing, marketing and maintaining websites. What Wiki doesn’t tell you is there are several aspects of web development that have their own specialties inside the term “web master.” These are Designers, Programmers, Search Engine Optimizers and finally people who understand Search Engine Marketing which is basically pay per click or pay per impression advertising. It is rare to find anyone with all the skills mentioned above.
If someone decides to go to school in the field of computers they will not be in the same class if one picks Information Technology and the other picks Web Design. Paontheweb.com has taken on interns from the web design aspect. Frankly, we are not impressed with the level of knowledge our schools are turning out. The most likely reason is a good Web Master is worth his weight in Gold. You will not be likely to find them teaching for lower wages. The old saying comes to mind, “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach”.
Many people will tell you they can put you into a website. That is true. Just about anyone can do that today. So, what is the difference? I’ll give you a list:
1. Does your website look like a kid did it or a professional?
2. Do the images look correct and stay out of the way of your text?
3. Are your images search engine friendly?
4. Does your website show up on the search engines for the terms you want to be found under?
5. What are your traffic statistics like. We can guarantee a certain number of visitors.
6. Do you need to store data (information) online and retrieve it from anywhere, privately?
7. How about giving you the ability to control parts of your website?
8. What about your Title, Description and SEO score? Does 40 to 50% sound good or would you rather have 90 to 100%.
Paontheweb’s approach is a three person team. Each person has knowledge of all areas of being a basic web master. However, each member of our team has their strengths. We create custom designs that convey your image to the world. We specialize in search engine optimization and only turn to search engine marketing when absolutely necessary. We create sites that gather and store information you can access anywhere from an internet connection. We supply you with the ability to change any area of your website content, add pages and more.
We respect I.T. professionals and even call on them from time to time. If you needed a heart transplant would you go to a general practitioner or a specialist with a good reputation? Would you ask the guy who does body work on your car to fix your engine? We do hope you get the picture. Why not contact us today to see what we can do to improve your website.
1. The from email address should be an address that actually exists as an inbox or forward.
2. Set up domain keys and spf records. Go to cpanel. Under Mail you will see Mail Authentication. Click that icon and Enable them both.
3. If the customer who is receiving the email from the form is on our server there is no issue. However, if the customer uses another email address it may be best to establish the noreply@customersdomain.com inbox as an actual inbox. Next, you set up a forward for the noreply@customersdomain.com to go to :fail: No such person at this address
4. All forms should be tested to make sure the client is receiving their forms without revealing an email address that can get spammed.
5. Many spammers harvest emails by submitting a bogus form and waiting for the reply or auto reply to see what address they can spam.
Here is how to get video on your soholaunch website after you load to Youtube or LubyVideo
1. Find your video on Youtube.com after you load it.
2. Here is an example link we use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyv26AsPnM8
3. To the right you will see URL and Embed. Copy the text from the area that says Embed and past it into a notepad (available on all Windows machines usually under Start/Programs/Accessories).
4. Paste the Embed code into the notepad and save it as a name you can remember with an .html extention.
a. The code looks something like this
b. I would save this file using Notepads Save As command to something like paontheweb_commercial.html
5. Once you have all your video files saved simply upload them through File Manager in your soholaunch system.
6. Next, go to the page you want to place your videos on and drag down from the icon that says Custom Code rather than Video. Select from your uploaded .html files. In this example you will see paontheweb_commercial.html in your options list. Simply position your videos and save the page. You’re done.
You can use this technique on almost any kind of website including blogs, html, php, asp and more. Here is how we used it on a blog http://pavideo.blogspot.com/ It is a simple matter of knowing how to best place the Embed code from a video site like Youtube.com.
If you receive repeated emails with the same subject line or text in the email you can create a rule that will put these emails directly into your trash or Junk E-mail folder.
1. Right click on the message in your inbox. A pop up will allow you to select Create Rule.
2. If you are looking to auto delete or move email to a Junk folder simply follow the on screen guide.
3. If you are looking to delete or move to Junk E-mail folder something contained in the body text click Advanced Options. There you may select from many options the most common being “specific words in the body.”
4. If you select one of the advanced options with a check box it will put the item into the Step 2 block below. Once the blue link is in that block click on it to establish the rule. Select OK and continue thru the step by step procedures.
PAonteweb.com provides hosting with several additional spam reducing features. Nobody can completely stop spam from getting to your inbox but hundreds can be reduced to a handful. We use Spamhaus in our firewall and can also tighten your security using Spam Assassin. Spamhaus is automatic and retrieves daily lists of known spammers for automatic filtering. Spam Assassin is a numbering system that allows you to adjust your filtering from 1 to 10. Ten is least aggressive. Setting the number here can be difficult. While Spam Assassin suggest 5 PAontheweb suggests 3 for most clients. We have also set our Spam Assassin down to 1.5 as the system does allow for using decimals. PAontheweb.com receives thousands of spam emails every day. However, by setting our system down to 1.5 99% of spam is removed. The only trouble with this is we do miss the occasional email that is legitimate.
On the positive side we have created contact forms that use letters and numbers on the form that must be put in the correct order before the message is sent. This is referred to as Captcha and is something you have most likely seen on many websites. It only allows the information to be sent that you want filled out. If you put in a comments block so people can type whatever they want you may still get some spam this way. This is not Robotic spam it is an actual human being typing in the junk email or someone using a form filler to get thru. However, a human must still provide the Captcha code greatly reducing this type of spam.
Because much of the world lives in poverty unscrupulous people take advantage of using human spammers in foreign countries like India, Pakistan, Brazil and other emerging nations. These spammers cannot be completely stopped. However, PAontheweb.com uses a add on program to the forms with Captcha that detects if there are several hyperlinks. More than 2 hyperlinks is indicative of a spam form email. Our system auto deletes anything with more than 2 hyperlinks in a form.
If you’re having trouble with spam why not give us a call or fill out our contact form. However, once an email address is known to the spammers we will suggest you change your email address and never post it on a website for robots to read again. Never use email addresses like info@, webmaster@, sales@ etc unless you have extremely good filtering. These email addresses are assumed to exist by most spammers trying to get to you. These email addresses are common in business. We have many suggestions for you to reduce spam.
OK, we are not a group of environmental extremists. However, we want to be good stewards of the earth. It just makes sense. How did we do it? We affiliated ourselves with a server supplier out of Dallas Texas where Wind Power is plentiful.
Did you know the average web server produces the same emissions as a 15 MPG SUV? Our partner in Texas hosts over 1,300,000 websites and it is all green!
PAontheweb would also like to encourage other businesses to go green when it makes sense. Here is just one way you can do it and save yourself money.
Are you sending out paper newsletters? How much does it cost you to print and mail these items? How many trees are being used. How much gasoline or diesel fuel is being used to deliver your paper newsletters? Isn’t there a better way today? The answer is YES! Do it by email. PAontheweb provides email newsletter systems that integrate with your website. Instead of collecting client mailing addresses collect their email addresses. Then, simply create a page on your site or have us do it for you. Next, got through a simple step by step wizard and send out your information electronically.
PS in Texas we just opened under http://www.txontheweb.com/
1. Place Google Adsense near the top and left of your site as well as bottom center.
2. Color co-ordinate your Adsense so it blends nicely with your website.
3. When you can use blue as your website default hyperlink color and the same for Adsense. People are still familiar with the color blue being a link and are more likely to notice the links.
4. Use the Channels Google provides as this is the only way to know for sure what placement performs the best.
5. Pretty websites are nice but text is king. Most people are looking for information, not nice pictures. Make you site rich in text and easy to read. Match your text size to Google Adsense. After all, Google wants people to be able to read their ads and that is a good font size for your website.
Recently a client called and suggested we’re all doing bad because of gas prices. In the web business it is just the opposite. Most smart business owners know now is the time to be found through their website. With gas prices toping $4.00 and no end in sight more people turn to the web before getting in their cars.
If you don’t have a well optimized website now is the time to get one or update your old one so it can be found. PAontheweb.com specializes in getting you found on Google, MSN, Yahoo and others for “what you do and where you are located.” Did you ever wonder why you don’t show up on Google for anything other than the name of your company? We know the secret and we’re here to help.
We are so confident of our search engine optimization for small and medium sized local businesses we often don’t charge until you have achieved your position on Google. We don’t know anyone else in the business that does that.
Do you get a lot of hackers trying to access your website? Did you know that 90% or more of all hacking is done from outside the United States? Now you can pick what countries to block from accessing your website. It’s easy if you’re a webmaster. If not, contact us and we can help for a small fee. All you need is your FTP login information and tell us what countries you’d like to block. If you are a do it yourselfer or webmaster click this link http://blockacountry.com
We wondered that too. We have our own dedicated servers and wondered how hosting companies can give away so much bandwidth and storage space. We would be in the hole if we tried to do that.
I finally discovered an answer from someone I know who owns a large hosting company, Hostgator. In the blog area (not easily found by most casual visitors) Brent spells it out. First, they allow approximately 2,000 websites per server. At $400 per month to lease for a good dedicated server that allows a lot of websites! Next, most people use only a small portion of what they are granted, less than 200 megs for a very large non porn website. If you’re not hosting movies or bit torrent sites you rarely get above 200, PAontheweb.com is not even 200 megs!
The one thing they don’t tell you is they cut you off if you use too much in the way of system resources like CPU usage. If your site is pulling tons of resources you’ll be notified and then shut down if you don’t comply. You will also note that many of these companies (not all) add very large hard drives to their servers. This reduces the over all effectiveness of the CPU and other things like RAM. That is why there are so many complaints about cheap website hosts.
Let’s face it. You’ve got to run a streamlined server to keep your clients happy. In order to do that you (as a server admin) must stay on top of system resources being consumed. That’s one of the main differences between dedicated business hosting and inexpensive hosting like GoDaddy, Networksolutions etc. There are other differences like support and redundancy. For example, our servers are backed up automatically on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and there is never a fee to restore a website to one of those three options.
Besides all that our servers are RAID 10 SATA II minimum meaning they have many redundancies built in. This may be outdated information by the time you’re reading it. We’re continually upgrading servers to the next phase as soon as it becomes needed. For example, we’re already considering moving up to a Quad-Core 3210 Xeon (Kentfield). Keeping our clients on the best systems available is one of our greatest services.
PAontheweb.com would like to introduce you to the latest way to search the web at LubyG.com. This is just the beginning. More relevant search results is the goal of Google and PAontheweb under the new name LubyG (making the web slicker). Google Labs has brought about Google Co-op a new interface that allows us to create unique searches using the best of Google technology and the best of Co-operative input. Unlike Site Flavored search from Google which is an automated system that learns over time, LubyG allows input from the user. Right now we’re only selecting a limited few to colaborate with us. Soon, we hope to open a second grand experiment that allows everyone to participate under LetUsBeYourGuide.com.
Try it and see if your results are more relevant. It searches not only Google but MSN, Yahoo, Ask and others for better results.
