Web Hosting Reviews

Feb 052009
 

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After writing about Web Hosting Search last week someone reminded me about Web Hosting Geeks, and that they have been doing reviews for a long time. I have actually been on this site several times in the past, and completely forgotten that they break down hosting types by specifics as well.

Why Use a Hosting Review Site?

On their home page they have a top ten web hosting list of general hosting companies. InMotion is their number one pick. What I really care about though is the best rated hosting companies for the particular niche or need. If a client of mine needs to host just a basic info site, I don’t want to refer them to some hosting company, and then later find out they ended up getting a dedicated server at $200+ a month. On the other hand if they were looking for a dedicated server to support multiple sites, finding the best host company for that is as simple as going to their Best Dedicated Server Page or in the first example a low cost host. I like being able to say “you need X type of hosting, pick the one you want on that page, and it should be fine”.  It gives the client the freedom to secure a site and price they are comfortable with, and I can know they are not getting too little or too much.

A Geeky Review

Web Hosting Geeks reviews are based on several factors, but what I like best is that is mostly influenced by the visitors ratings. Their reviews include all of the hosts details, types of plans, fees, and a link to the hosting company. Customer reviews are all visible without being a member, and offer a star rating plus written review. It’s not really a geeky review, but just a review made by geeks:)

Google’s Friend Connect

Dec 082008
 

So today I am giving Google’s Friend Connect a try. I thought I would outline the steps in doing it.

  1. First you need to go to the main page: Google Friend Connect
  2. Then you have to download two files, and upload them to your root directory of your site.
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  3. Google checks your site to make sure you have uploaded correctly.
  4. Select your gadget. There are several to choose from. I am testing out the Review/Rate gadget.
  5. Selecting the Review/Rate gadget I need to decide what is going to be rated, the site, an ID, or a page. I am selecting the page, because I want to allow visitors to rate posts.
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  6. Customize the the gadget for your site. I am using the default with exception to the background because the colors are already similar to BWI’s.
  7. Paste code into your site where you want it.

Job done, and if you look in this post you can see the rating gadget right underneath my related posts header. The total time took about fifteen minutes, and that was including the time I spent writing this. Will it last on this site? Only time will tell and analyses, will tell.

Editorial by: Matthew Tutt

Jan 142008
 

Paid To Review is a very popular and successful website, which main purpose is to inform people how to make money online.

The site contains many articles informing people how that they can go about earning money using the Internet. Such ways of making money include paid surveys (where people get paid to answer surveys online), writing product reviews (where people get paid to review various products online), by using cashback websites (where people can get paid cashback every time they perform a transaction online), and from various other ways of making money online.

Most of the ways of making money online mentioned on the Paid To Review website are completely free to participate in, only requiring a little understanding of how the methods actually work – how someone actually goes about making money from that opportunity. The website contains a lot of in-depth articles, which explain the exact steps required to profit from these money making ways.

Recently the Paid To Review website has added various guides which explain how somebody can make money from setting up their own free website, or blog. This basically involves opening a free account at a blog provider website, and then adding some kind of advertisements or affiliate programs to the blog. By doing some basic free promotion of your blog, you could then start to build up traffic to the site, and earn some money every time one of your advertisements gets viewed or clicked.

So although the website used to simply provide information about making money using various websites, it now contains some more in-depth guides to earning money by setting up websites and blogs, which is a little more technical then simply answering paid surveys, writing product reviews, or even by using cashback websites. And to be honest, if someone is actually interested in making a serious amount of money on the Internet then it is imperative that they get involved in more than online surveys.

The Paid To Review website has also added quite a nice new feature recently – a money making forum. On the forum you are able to discuss issues related to making money online. Perhaps you had read a guide on the Paid To Review site but hadn’t fully understood it – you could simply post a question in the forum, and someone is bound to help you out. Adding a forum to the site has increased the interactivity of the website, finally enabling the visitors a chance to discuss the many ways to make money online. However, the forum has only been active for a few days, so activity is still pretty quiet, but due to the popularity of the Paid To Review website it shouldn’t be long before the forums are very busy.

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