December 2013

12/23/2013

Can Website Monitoring Services Prevent Your Site from Being Blacklisted?

Being blacklisted from the search engines is one of the worst possible things that can happen to an online business. It has been estimated that more than half of all website traffic is generated through search engines. If your site becomes blacklisted, you lose access to all of that traffic. Being blacklisted can literally bankrupt an online business. To prevent this from happening, you need to understand what being blacklisted means, what can put you at risk of being blacklisted, and how you can prevent it from happening.

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12/20/2013

Top 4 Reasons You Need to Employ Website Monitoring Services

As consumers become increasingly demanding in regards to what they expect from a website's performance, more and more website owners are beginning to realize the importance of quality website monitoring services. Back in the days when most shopping was done in brick-and-mortar stores, a friendly staff providing excellent customer service was the key to a business's success. Nowadays, with a good percentage of transactions being conducted online, the role of the friendly salesperson has transitioned into the role of a website that offers performance and reliability.

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12/04/2013

Three Steps You Can Take to Minimize Website Downtime

There is nothing quite as stressful as seeing your site go offline – especially if all of your business's profits are driven by your website. While downtime is, for the most part, an inevitable fact of life, there are steps you can take to minimize the downtime your site experiences. The following three steps will not completely eliminate downtime, but they will help ensure that you are taking proper measures to maximize your site's uptime.

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12/04/2013

What You Need to Know About Shared Hosting Plans and Website Downtime

When looking at hosting options for your website, you can go with shared hosting or you can go with dedicated hosting. The difference is that when you opt for a shared hosting plan, you share the server that your site is hosted on with other websites. When you go with a dedicated hosting plan, your site is the only site hosted on the server. While shared hosting is a cost-effective option for start-ups and small business websites, there are some things you need to be aware of when it comes to shared hosting plans and website downtime.

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