Beginning on Friday, December 05, 2008 AvekHost.com will search the world wide for the best free Wordpress templates we can find and post them in our blog. Since the Christmas Holiday 2008 is just around the corner, this week decided to search for the best 3 holiday templates we could find.

Be sure to take a moment while you are here and leave a quick comment with your thoughts on these particular templates. Your feedback will certain help us provide the best free blog templates for you in the future!

Free Holiday Wordpress Template #1

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Free Holiday Wordpress Template #2

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If you are thinking about creating a new web site, redesigning an existing site, or simply focused on gaining more traffic through organic search engine listing; then chances are you toggled around a time or two about search engine optimization. So I don’t bore you, I will simply summarize search engine optimization (also referred to as SEO) as designing your web site for stronger search engine results.

Ultimately the one problem behind search engine optimization is that many new webmasters and even existing webmasters have little knowledge behind search engine optimization techniques leaving just a few options.

1. Spend litterally hundreds of hours searching articles, blogs, ezines, newsletters, etc. on SEO techniques.
2. Purchase at least one or two books on SEO
3. Hire an SEO specialist and hope that you have choosen a good SEO specialist

Just imagine if you had 100 webmasters one conference call to share there secrets about SEO, how much you could learn in just a few minutes time about optimizing your web site for stronger search engine placement. You would probably go nuts with all this information, right? Well, we don’t have a conference call scheduled (just yet) but we do have a the ability to share one SEO tip and review the tips left by other webmasters.

So, your task to complete right now (Yes, Right Now), is to click on the comments link below and leave a comment about one thing you believe is a good advice when it comes to optimizing your web site for organic search engine traffic. If you do right now someone else will do it too and then we’ll have a lot of great and insightful SEO tips and tricks to help you get your web site better optimized for search engine placements.

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In case you are not familiar with “Cyber Monday”, it is essentially like “Black Friday” but through the world wide web. While it certainly isn’t as popular as “Black Friday” if you take the opportunity to search for “Cyber Monday Promotions” you’ll probably find some great deals for online shopping, services like web hosting, software discounts, etc.

Several weeks back we actually conducted an early announcement about our Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. It is true that it’s too late to take advantage of our Black Friday promotion but our Cyber Monday promotion is available for all new web hosting accounts. Just check out these promotions that you can take advantage of on Cyber Monday, well we should call it Cyber Weekend since these promotion codes are open for you to use this weekend.

Our Cyber Monday Promotion: Choose Any Plan & Get Your First 3 Months Web Hosting Absolutely Free!

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As you already know team “Change” has been very busy over these past few months implementing some great new changes to our site on both the front and back end. Now that changes are coming close to an end we can began posting our monthly up-time reports on our newly designed blog.

If your just joing us, each month we post the results of our previous month performance. For the month of November we are currently running at 100% up time and achieved 100% up-time on our hosting for the October 2008 month. All stats are provided through a third party organization.

You can click on the images below to see the reports of the monitoring that has been conducted in larger scale.  

If you have a web site chances are you have questioned yourself in the past on how to better search engine rankings. This short video that I found on YouTube provides some very insightful and basic tips on search engine optimization. It is certainly worth watching if you haven’t spent much time learning about search engine optimization (SEO).

We wanted to take a moment to thank you once again for choosing AvekHost.com to meet your web site hosting needs. We value your business greatly and wanted to provide you with the opportunity to take advantage of our “2008 Holiday Promotion” a little bit earlier this year. In addition, we know that your friends and family is just as important to you as you are to us and we would be honored to provide them with this very same promotion. You’ll find all the great coupon codes below!

Get 3 Months Free Web Hosting

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Standard Hosting Plan – Normally just $7.95 per month with features like unlimited email, free site builder, pre-installed scripts (Blogs, Live Chat, Helpdesks, etc), and so much more. Just choose the quarterly payment option during check out and use coupon code “standard3month”.*

Advanced Hosting Plan – Normally just $9.95 per month with just about everything you can imagine! Lots of web hosting space, free site builder, pre-installed scripts, unlimited email, unlimited mysql databases, 24/7 online support, awesome control panel, FTP access,  site statistics, and so much more. Just choose the quarterly payment option during check out and use coupon code “advanced3month”.*

No need for additional to create an additional web hosting account? No problem! Just log into your account, create a helpdesk ticket for our billing department, and request that we apply this 3 month free web hosting service promotion to your existing account.

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AvekHost.com has been monitored by this third party organization for more than 216 days and has yet to fail to meet the expectations of 100% up time set internally.

Do You Want to Optimize Your Own Web Site?

Author: Jennifer Horowitz

An easy to understand introduction to the search engines:

Think of the engines like teachers handing out gold stars for everything that you do well. Google currently has about 200 factors in their algorithms that determine how your site will rank. Imagine your teacher with a clipboard and checklist with 200 items on it and she assigns you gold stars for each of the things you do well.

Remember, some of the items on the list are more important and you may get multiple gold stars. No one knows for sure how the algorithm works, but we test and monitor the industry to come up with a technique that works well for getting sites ranked.

The number of gold stars you achieve will determine how well your site will rank. There are no shortcuts and there are no tricks (none that are safe to use and won’t result in trouble down the road).

If you plan on optimizing your own website, there are quite a few areas that you will need to focus on.

Here are the areas you will need to learn about (listed in the order I believe you should address them):

- Keyword Research

* Keywords are the foundation of your campaign. If you don’t have the right keywords, you won’t succeed.

* You should look for a balance of “low hanging fruit” (keywords that are very targeted, have low competition and less search counts) and some shorter more competitive phrases. That way you will see results quickly for the low hanging fruit, while you are waiting for your more competitive words to kick in.

* You should always select keywords that are relevant and likely to convert for you.

- SEO Friendliness - Diagnosis & Correction, plus Competitor Analysis

* You should look at the foundation of your site and make sure it is SEO Friendly. SEO Friendly means have clean code that the spiders are able to spider. Without a solid foundation and good SEO Friendliness your other efforts won’t pay off as much.

* You should check out what your competitors are doing. If you see who has the top rankings in Google for your keywords, you can check out what they are doing and reverse engineer it to determine what you need to do in order to beat them out.

- On-page optimization

* This includes analyzing your content to make sure you are using relevant keywords within your text, as well as various other code tweaks.

- Google Webmaster Tools

* Google provides some great tools that allow you to learn how your site is doing. The XML sitemap submission is also available here. It’s definitely worth spending some time getting to know Google Webmaster Tools.

- Links

* Step one is to determine how many links you have that the engines are recognizing and crediting you with. Step two is creating a solid plan to get links (that won’t get you in trouble).

- On-going Content Addition

* You should have a plan to continue to grow your site. It’s good for the engines and it’s good for site visitors.

- Social Media

* Social media is a great way to increase traffic to your site, boost your link popularity and help you with branding, building a reputation, building your trust and credibility and forming relationships with clients and potential clients.

- Blogging

* Blogs invite interactivity, allowing your customers and site visitors a voice. They help you build relationships and they are picked up really quickly by the search engines. A Blog is a great tool in addition to your website. We strongly recommend WordPress with all its great marketing and SEO plugins.

- Site Maintenance

* SEO is not a set it and forget it kind of thing. You will want to plan on tweaking and updating your site. o Although you never want to (over) react too quickly to normal fluctuation in the search engines results pages you do want to address the issue if you continue to plummet.

- Industry News & Updates

* Things change in the SEO world so quickly. What works today may not work tomorrow. It is important that you stay current and aware and tweak your site as necessary based on the changes.

* You should also stay updated in order to be aware of new tools and opportunities.

This may seem like a lot of areas to focus on, but these areas are all vital to your SEO success. If you plan to handle your own optimization you should definitely arm yourself with the correct tools and information sources. If you decide it is too much to handle, you should definitely arm yourself with the proper knowledge on how to select an SEO Firm.

Now you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you and a lot to consider. Good luck!

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/do-you-want-to-optimize-your-own-web-site-497406.html

About the Author:

Jennifer Horowitz, Director of Marketing for EcomBuffet.com, has written a book on SEO and has been published in many SEO & Marketing publications. Over the past 10 years Jennifer’s expertise in marketing & Search Engine Optimization has helped clients increase revenue and grow their business. Check out Jennifer’s free ebook Optimization Step by Step on www.ecombuffet.com

An Online Business Forum Is Where You Can Make Sales and New Friends

One of the best things to happen on the internet is everyday happens in the online business forum community. This is where you can go to meet people who are going through all of the ups and downs you experience everyday. These are a great place to learn and to teach, but they are also great for building your business if you do it right.

One way that happens each day is in your signature file. A good sig file can bring you traffic and sales when people see it and go to your website. This little box below your forum post can be set up to include a hyperlinked keyword that leads to your website or blog.

Depending on the number of characters you are allowed to put in your sig file you can include links to more than one product or website. Use your best keyword phrases and you will get credit for a backlink from search engines as well.

To get the click you first have to earn a little respect. Most forums will list the number of posts you have made. There more posts you make the more you be read. The better your advice the more you are apt to get a person to visit your website and see what you are up to.

This is a free form of online business advertising that you can not buy. Classified ads by themselves will no produce the same results. Neither will listing your website in search engine directories or other places where you list your website address and a small description of it.

The other invaluable thing to come out of online business forums are joint ventures. The friends you meet today are your future business partners for tomorrow. When you hang out in a forum over a period of time you get to know people. It is almost like finding new best friends and these are the people you may want to be in business with on a new product launch or other internet marketing.

The real key to making forum marketing work for your online business is to provide value to the forum. Value in the type of posts you make. Value in the number of posts you make. Value by not making your forum posts nothing but ads for your business.

If you do this over a period of time an online business forum can be a great source of visitors, leads and revenue.

About Author

Would you like to have a real web site business? Pamela Rene Lee invites you to visit her full service marketing business website for everything you need to start and run your own online business. Her services include advertising, mentoring, and a full service training and support package to help guarantee your success. Learn more here: http://www.wealthfunnelsystem.com/sites/index.cfm?id=171

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