Sunday

10 Short Headlines That Are Guaranteed to Boost Your Traffic

Need some headlines that will produce positive results? Check out these Top 10:

1. "Subscribe To Our Free Ezine" - Tell your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter, and when they subscribe you'll capture their e-mail address. Each time they read your ezine, it will remind them to visit your site.

2."Join Our Forum" - Ask your visitors to participate on your online discussion board. By participating they will meet other people, and they will return to your web site on a regular basis to stay in contact with their new friends.

3. "Free Content For Your Site or Ezine" - Permit your visitors to use your articles on their own web site or in their ezine. Just ask them to include your resource box at the end of the article. This is a free way to advertise your site all over the internet.

4. "Bookmark This Site Now" - Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your web site, and give them a good reason to do so. For example, promise fresh content daily or weekly.

5. "Sign Our Guestbook" - When people sign your guestbook you may get valuable feedback or constructive criticism on how to improve your web site, and may help you increase traffic to your web site.

6. "Refer Us To A Friend" - Ask your visitors to refer your web site to their friends who may benefit from visiting.

7. "Fill Out Our Online Survey" - Ask your visitors and newsletter subscribers to fill out your online survey or questionnaire. This brings people back to your site. Use the feedback on ways to improve your web site to increase traffic and visitor retention.

8. "Enter Our Contest" - Give your visitors a chance to enter an online contest or sweepstakes. People love to win stuff, and they will come back to your site again and again to see if you have new contest offerings.

9. "Give this Freebie To Your Visitors" - Allow your visitors to give away your online freebies to people that visit your web site. Include your ad and URL with the free item which will multiply your traffic by bringing new people to your site.

10. "Join Our Affiliate Program" - Allow your visitors to make money selling your products or services. This will increase your traffic (and revenues) when they link back to your web site.
Article by Rosalind Gardner, author of the best-selling Super Affiliate Handbook. To learn how you too can succeed in Internet and affiliate marketing, please visit Super Affiliate Handbook.

Monday

How To Choose Best Hosting Provider

You should do a web host review, before you make a choice. The problem online today is, how can you make a sound web host review with all the thousands out there.

It is impossible to review the thousands of web host out there, but it is in your best interest if you base your web host review on high in demand providers. Many of the top marketers have their own server, and you can't afford to pay $200 or more monthly for your own server.

For you to prevent your web hosting from shutting down, you will have to learn how to use the forums to find recommendation for choosing your web hosting provider. I didn't do my own research and that is why my web host shut me down without notice.

After being shut down, I went to two of my favorite forums and read a couple of post regarding my hosting company, and realized that no one had any great experiences with that company. They gave poor web host review grades for that host, well life is a learning process, and I know what not to do when choosing a web hosting provider.

Here are four tips you should follow to get a web host review:

1) Don't ever go for unlimited domain names. One other point worth mentioning, don't ever go for unlimited domain names, whenever you create a new account they automatically divide up your hosting bandwidth. That means that if you have just 40 Gigs of bandwidth and you divide it up by four domain names, you have used up all your bandwidth. So, any other new domain name you add will make you exceed your bandwidth, please understand I am just showing you the rip offs that takes place with some low cost web hosting providers. They say that they will warn you when your exceeding your bandwidth, but they just never do. They make you pay extra for unlimited domain names, but you being new to the Internet, you won't ever need more than three to six domain names to get you started.

2) Don't go with any web hosting provider that requires the full amount up front. They offer low cost web hosting if you pay the yearly price up front. Well, once you have paid for the year, you are tied to this company, should their service be not worthy, you will loose your initial yearly payment. Go with a company that has a 3 month or monthly payment plan, with a money back guarantee.

3) Test by sending a simple email to your web host first. Just send off a simple email telling your web host that your interested in their hosting, this is a must for you to review web host that are unknown. The response time to your email will let you know what type of service they offer.

4) Ask for a charge back.

As you know, the client is supposed to be king, keep all your receipts in place, and should you ever be shut down by your web host after paying a yearly plan, just go to your credit card provider and file a complaint for a refund. Don't let anyone scam you out of your money.

The final conclusion, your the one to blame if you get scammed, so make sure you follow my web host review tips before handing out your credit card.

About the Author: Author is running hosting reviews site http://www.webhostingspotter.com/