Web Site Check Up Time!

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	Issue 97 / November 2009

Do our plans cover Web site check-ups? Absolutely! All our Web hosting plans include analytics to help you evaluate your site's health. Smart marketers regularly request reports to learn which pages are most popular with customers and identify roadblocks in the sales path. Forget pulse, blood pressure and cholesterol. Read our Web resources article on the Five Numbers to Check Each Week.

Interested in upgrading to the robust reporting of Google's Urchin Analytics 5? It's a great way to capture valuable insights on your visitors. Plus, Hostway makes it easy to implement with experts who handle installation and configuration. Learn more.

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Meta Tags!

Don't count on Santa to bring you new customers. Clean up your meta tags to drive more clicks to your Web site. The meta description tag for each page contains the copy visitors see on the search engine results page. It doesn't affect your search engine ranking, but it could convince customers to click your link if it's well written.

It's easy to find your meta tag description (and your competition's!) Just type in a URL, right-click the Web page and click View Source. In the code look for the words that follow <meta name="description" content= in the header.

Update your meta tags in the program you used to create your Web site so you can get more traffic, especially this holiday season.

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Bookmark This!
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Maybe you remember what your competition promoted last year, but what about that great idea they had two years ago? Or trying to remember what content you had on your own site a few years back?

Step back in time and visit archived versions of Web sites with Internet Archive's free Wayback Machine. Just type in a URL, select a date range, and begin surfing on an archived version of the Web.

Click here to access the Wayback Machine.

eNewsletter Beta Test

Create Your Own Newsletter! We're testing our new, template-based, online newsletter product.

It's a simple interface that allows you to customize templates and distribute your newsletter to 100 customers per month, for free with your Web hosting plan.

To access it, sign into SiteControl. Click the Manage Services tab. Once in Marketing and Promotions, select the Newsletter Broadcast icon. And as easy as 1-2-3, create branded, well-designed newsletters and promotions!

Refer-a-Friend

To thank you for your referral, you and your friend get $25 each!

Log in to SiteControl and click the Refer-a-Friend link. Enter your name and email address, plus your friend's. Type a personal message if you wish and hit send.

Your friend will get an email message with a link to Hostway. If they use that link to order Web hosting, you each get a $25 credit.

Brain Teaser

The name Google was chosen to represent the immense amount of material indexed by the search engine. It comes from the word "googol" which is the number 1 followed by how many zeros?

a. 10 zeros

b. 100 zeros

c. 1,000 zeros

d. 1,000,000 zeros

Answer.

b. A googol is the number 10 to the 100th power or the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

See previous Brain Teasers.

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