On behalf of all the team here at Aloha Telecommunications. We hope you had a good holiday period and wish you a very happy and successful 2011.
Nathaniel McInnes
Managing Director.
Lets face it. We are never going to get rid of spam. But there are many thing we can do to decrease it and avoid being prone to reciveing more spam. Just follow these simple rules and you will be on the road in no time to recieving less spam.
Sign up to what you need!
This is the biggest common mistake that many people. If someone, some organization or third party requests your email address. Ask why? Ask what do they do with it. You will be more than surprised how many companies sell your address onto marketing companies.
Only signup to things that you really want. By doing this, this will limit your email address be out in the open.
Know your rights!
Any service that is based in the UK or EU by law has to give you an option to opt-out of their marketing campaigns. It is clearly made to companies that they have to give you a link at the bottom of your website.
Setup Spam Filters
All hosting accounts with Cymraeg Wales Hosting come with a free spam filter. To set it up, goto mail in Cpanel and select anti-spam. Follow the simple on screen instructions to get started. In no time you will be receiving less spam!
A website can be a companies marketing best friend, but it can also be a companies worst marketing enemy. Getting it right is vital!
I have listed a few examples of what your business can do to perform a spring clean and get more visitors and in turn, MORE BUSINESS!
The bottom line…
When a potential customer comes to your website you only have a few seconds to grab there attention and in essence, their business! Getting your Key Selling Points and Key Benefits over to your customer is vital in this time! To achieve this, you only need to put key important information on your site. Ask yourself the question: Does that really need to be on it? If not, SCRAP IT! Put it on another page! Do something with it, but take it off the home page! The amount of sites i see that just fill up the page with so much clutter.
Spring Clean
Everyone hates a cluttered shop. The same applies to your website! Having a cluttered website and not keeping things consistent will put off customers, it will make your website look unprofessional and additionally give your potential customers the idea that your business is also unprofessional. Make use of space! Keep everything to a theme. What i mean by this is: Same font: Headings in one font size, text in another. This applies for colour as well. Don’t have multi colour everything! Also a trend that appears to be in at the moment is having text in a very dark grey. Not black. It makes it softer for the eyes so it’s easier to read (ok, that last bit i’m just speculating. I have know idea why, but everyone seems to be doing it.)
SEO
You’ve probably heard of it and to be honest, it’s doing our head-in…. why? Every company on this earth appears to be able to offer SEO and guarantee a certain position on google. Truth of the matter, they can’t. They can help improve it, but they never guarantee you a certain position on google. I’m going to offer you some free information that are true when it comes to SEO and many companies will charge hundreds if not THOUSANDS for this information.
Site geographic location
This is one of the biggest that is mostly overlooked (even by alot of SEO companies), but it’s one of most important aspects. Your site will perform better in the country where it is hosted. Not where your users/target audience are. What i mean by this is that if your site is hosted in America, but your users are in the UK, your site will not perform as well as it would if was hosted here in the UK. If you are a Cymraeg Wales Hosting customer do not worry. Our servers are UK located so your site will perform better than if your website was hosted with another host.
Link backs
Get some high profile sites linking to your site. If you do this, it tells search engines such as google ‘hang on a tick, this site is linked by some high visitor/high profile sites, they too must be high profile’. This is what I tell all new companies. If you do this effectivily, it will not only make your site/company look more established, but it will also make your site look better established and been trading for a while. This is also a very good technique to getting your site listed quickly.
Keywords & Alt’s
I’ve heard of them, but I’m not to sure what they do? I’ve heard this so many times from designers. To make it simple, it is just a description to an image or a link. That’s all it is. If you use a design package such as Adobe Dreamweaver you will be able to add descriptions into the ALT box. Do this! Why? Simple! It adds descriptions to pages. This will improve search engines searching your site. It will also assist in the process of having something called Site Links. Site Links you say? What are they? Have you ever typed a term into google such as: Microsoft. Under first search result, it has a few links to different sections. These are called Site Links and they are a pain to get. However, if you follow a few tips and tricks they will soon appear.
When you name web pages, give them a search engine friendly name. If you want to call your page helloworld.html. Don’t call it this, but call it hello-world.html. This is a search engine friendly term. Site links only work if your site pages are logical and are easy to understand.
Keep it regular!
Another way to improve SEO is to keep your website up to date. The amount of times websites get to a decent position in google and then loose their position because their site is stagnant. Update your site once a week! Have a news section or something that will keep it up to date and this will get search engines scanning your site regularly. This will give your site a better position then other sites.
Here are just a few ideas to throw around. I will update this post as and when i come up with more ideas. So stay tuned!
All the best,
Nathaniel McInnes
Managing Director – Aloha Telecommunications Ltd
Today (Monday 6th September 2010) we are proud to officially relaunch and rebrand Cymraeg Wales Hosting as the residential and business provider of data and telecom services to the Aloha Telecommunications Group.
As with Aloha’s company ethos we aim to provide a better 1 to 1 customer approach while at the same time aiming to beat our customer experience and satisfaction targets.
We believe that a good customer experience and good support services should be available to all kind of customers, no matter how little your paying.
Along with revamping our previous web hosting and reseller hosting packages. We are pleased to announce the launch of new services:
Domain Names – From only 58p/month, you can’t go wrong! Get your .com today!
Free 0844/0845 numbers – Improve your business identity!
Call over 40 countries for only 1.5p/min! – High quaility, low cost international calling directly from your landline or mobile. It’s so simple!
We also also proud to annouce that we are now providing free sales and phone support. Something that is rarely seen in our industry! It’s all about making sure that your reassured that there is always someone at the other end of the phone to help out.
As you may already be aware, Cymreag Wales Hosting has become part of the Aloha Telecommunications brand. We believe by doing this we can provide a better service to you. At network level and at customer service level.
Aloha Telecommunications specialises in voice over IP (voip) at carrier and enduser level and is an up and coming key player in this Market.
We hope that by joining together, we hope to offer a whole new fleet of services in the months to come. This includes a brand new look at our hosting services (don’t worry were not going anywhere) and offer some brand new and exciting services!
We would also like to inform you while we make these changes and move office locations etc we won’t beable to accept any new orders between the dates of 5th July – late August.
The MyDrive File system for business is currently being ddos-ed at the moment and is causing slight interruption to users trying to login. Although the drive cloud appears to be dealing with it fairly well, we would like make customers aware of this problem and ask to expect slightly longer page loading times and the odd page time out.
Our maintenance team are trying to currently block offending IP’s.
Any more news will be posted as it comes in.
We would just like to mention that the hard drive replacements have been done and all seems good. In total we replaced 8 hard drives.
If customers are experiencing any problems, please email support.
Many Thanks,
Nathaniel McInnes – Managing Director.
It has come to our attention, that a handful of hard drives in our server cloud have failed/show signs of potentially failing soon. Although this is not effecting the cloud. We have just taken the decision to replace these hard drives. Although we do not think this will effect any sites, we would just like to make customers aware that we are doing maintenance work.
We will be carrying the work out between 11:30-14:00 BST.
If any customers do experience any down time or problems with there site, can you please email support IMMEDIATELY as what might be effecting you could be effecting other customers.
I will post a new blog post once the update has been completed.
Due to the extreme popularity of our VPS’s and Dedicated Servers, we have decided to halt orders as we are currently spending most of our time currently looking after these customers and planning our next network expansion.
However, if you have any questions, please email us at sales@chostwales.com.
Just as a quick one to all you folks out there.
server1.uk.vps.chostwales.net tripped for some reason on the power connection resulting in an instant reboot of the node. We had to start all VPS’s manually and all of them should be backup and running now. If not please contact support.
We will provide more information when we can once the Datacentre has investigated this further.