Saturday, September 29, 2007

search engine campaign update

I am very happy that some of my keywords on my website ranks quite well on google.com like affordable hosting hong kong (1st page), affordable web hosting asia (#1 on google.com), affordable hosting singapore, 2nd page, affordable hosting malaysia #1, and many more.

well, this is not coincidence, it is all my hard work paid. As the owner of the site, I am very pleased some methods that I learned really works on SEO. well it is just to good to be true! one more thing, I found out this morning about some web hosting companies in the US, actually got the keyword, "hosting" rank on the first page on google. (outs of 300 Million results!!!!) how's amazing they did a job like that in just few years time!!

How about your website, rank any good in Google?

Sunday, September 23, 2007

7 easy steps to avoid common online PC threats

Introduction

Internet becomes popular and popular these days but do you aware that your computers are very insecure when you connect your computer to the internet or try to check your email?

In this article, we will give you 7 easy steps on "how to protect your PC from online threat" these days.

Step 1: Get the latest free anti-virus, personal firewall and anti-spam software and manually update the programs!

This is the most easy step to protect your computer from virus or trojan horses attack. However, most computer users forget to get the latest update of their anti-virus or personal firewall software on their computers!

"Are they automatically updated to newest version?" That was a customer asked me back in 2004. Well yes, those commercial anti-virus or personal firewall programs will automatically update within their license period usually one year.

However, as time approaching to perhaps, 9 months after your initial purchase the software suddenly couldn't update itself. One typical example is Symantec Norton Anti-Virus program. I have seen so many computer users just simply with the hope that Norton will take care on its own and do not manually check for update So, what will happen after all? Left their computers vulnerable to viruses or trojan horses attack!

Step 2: Get the latest patch of your Windows.

Get your latest patch of Windows system! And not wait for tomorrow or next year!

Computer users always ignore this' vital step. They usually think installing an anti virus or personal firewall software is enough when come to protecting their PC. Well, to certain extent, those software do have protection on your computers but the main problems are Windows is always "buggy". Their security updates or patches often take 6 months to 1 year to launch while those bugs are already reported 6 months ago on anti-virus giants such as Symantec or McAfee websites.

Therefore, Windows update or security patches is a must to all Windows users. "But how do I get the update?" You may ask. One easy way to do this is to use the "automatic update function" found in control panel menu. Click on "Start -> control panel -> automatic update" on your Windows XP and make sure your automatic box is checked and set up check for updated daily and it is all set!


Step 3: Stay alert

Why you should stay alert? When come to Internet security you may be the first person in your office to notice a computer virus outbreak is going to begin. Typical examples are iloveyou email virus in year 2000 and codered in year 2004. Your computer technician may be the last one to notice. Therefore you should work with computer technician and seek advice when you saw something wired on your computer is happening.


Step 4: Never ever join computer software, MP3 sites that allow unlimited download for life time or whatsoever.


Recently, I found some websites that claim to have life time membership on downloading unlimited software or movies and mp3. At a glance it was a crappy website and I don't bother to look at it. Because I thought it was some kind of web site which is providing software crack codes. As I read further I found they are using Click Bank as their provider! For some of you already known, Click Bank is a pretty well known company in the field of Internet affiliate marketing. Therefore, without hesitation, I joined. After all the initial registration, I accessed the website.

When I logged in, they gave me a program to download so I did. But what I was looking for wasn't there! Therefore I opened up the program that I'd just downloaded and tried to search the piece of software I was looking for in their built in search function. As I waited for the result, I began to see a bunch of cracks files or crack codes related to that software on different computers. What does that mean? It means it is a file sharing software. It doesn't really provide the software, you may say it is a member site that allow access to others members computer for file sharing. To me it is a scam. Because they don't provide information on they don't actually provide the software but you can find it on their members' computers! But how they can force their members not to share programs that are not owned by their members? It is same sort of controversy back to days of the favorite MP3 sharing website called Napster.

Thus don't join this kind of website, personally I think they are rubbish and completely waste of money.

Step 5: Don't use BT or Bit torrent (for those of you don't know what it is, don't worry about it. Just skip to step 6. For those who know please read on.

BT generally is a good idea because it saves time to download a big file when internet connections are slow. However, some people out there is abusing the software. They used it for for illegal purposes such as copyright infringed mp3, computer software, movies sharing and so on.

Often these pieces of mp3, movies or computer software are provided in zip, rar format to save some hard disk space and download speed. But you never know what pieces of software are bundled in these zips or rars files. It may be computer viruses, trojan horses or a key logger which basically can log everything you typed on your keyword and then send a report to their owners or people who let your download their software or media. Which means your password, username and other personal information may be revealed to another person that you don't know. Therefore, next time when you see a BT site, stay away from it. (Unless it is some well established site like Open Office (software like MS office or World of War Craft, online massive multi-players role playing games)


Step 6: Never download software from crack, warez sort of sites.

Don't ever never try to find crack of some popular software like WinZip, WinRAR, Dreamweaver, Norton Anti-virus and so on and so forth. Why? Because, again you never know what is the file downloaded contains virus or trojan horse or keylogger.

Well, these often heard by someone who's seeking "Free" version of popular software like those ones listed above. "My computer was infected by virus and it becomes uncleanable!"

So stop looking these "Free" resources and instead try to look for open source alternatives like FileZilla (a ftp program like cuteFTP or WsFTP), Open Office as opposed to Microsoft Office, kompozer as opposed to Dreamweaver or front page.

Step 7: Always back up your important files on an alternative sources such as USB flash, CD/DVD rom or simply another hard drive.

What if your computer is infected by a virus or being hacked and become non-usable?

The quickest way often is to re-format your computer hard drive and reinstall Windows XP when it becomes non-usable or simply non-controllable. But before you are a hit by such a situation, make sure you always have up to date important documents or files back up. You can either back them up on your company's file server, your USB flash drive, diskette or CD/DVD ROMs

With today USB flash drive, CD/DVD ROMS are being so cheap you don't have any reasons on why you're not doing it!

In conclusion,

Internet security is not as hard as you might think, you just basically have to follow the basic instruction in this article and you're done!

Saturday, September 22, 2007

milestone on search engine campaign

I've just have a good news, I've found my website rank no.8 in hk.yahoo.com for the keywords, affordable hosting hong kong. and currently 6th page in google.com.hk
. But first page on google.com !! well it's so exciting. After all, it may prove some link building strategies are really work and if you don't know what I'm talking about, come back later and I'll show you. By the way, I'm planning on some search engine optimization projects. It's at the beginning phase. so stay tune and I'll announce it later.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

18AffordableWebHosting is currently rank no.38 in google

well, one of my website is currently ranking at number 38 when using affordable web hosting hong kong as the keyword. well, it should be rank higher later. ]

anyway, this is a method call SEO. It's heating up everywhere in the world and it should be no nonsense to set up your website. But SEO requires some effort, but in long run it saves you a lot of money from doing this.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

ranking high google

well this is not an off topic post. web hosting needs top rank isn't it.

today I want to share you something about "google sand box". what it is, is a filter to stop garbage web site rank too fast in google and eventually makes google garbage. This another words is an abuse on search engines.

eventually all new web site (domain registered prior to year 2004 doesn't imply to this sandbox filter) will encounter this filter sometimes in their life! may be six months to a year. But some experts, (text-link-ads) said there are methods to cut those sand box period by having some trusted social networking site linking on your site continuously.... to be continued

Thursday, September 6, 2007

8 questions you should ask before you purchase a web hosting account

today I've found some topics about questions you should ask when purchasing a web hosting account:

1.) how long have you been in business?
2.) how do you handle your technical support - in house or outsourcing?
3.) what is your daily bandwidth limits?
4.) to be continued