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On behalf of everyone at OneWebHosting, I would would like to wish you Happy Thanksgiving!
We are thankful and appreciative for your business and we wish you and your family a great Thanksgiving this year!
In today’s tough business environment, it is very important for your online success to get targeted visitors to your website. What is a “targeted visitor” - simply put, it’s a person looking for exactly what you are selling.
A targeted visitor is much more likely to buy your product or service and the beauty of a web search is the ability to deliver customers to your website who are ready to buy.
After you’ve added your website to Google Local, I highly suggest looking into Google’s pay per click service, Adwords. Below is a quick overview of Google Adwords and how it can help you grow your business.
What is Google Adwords?
Google Adwords offers pay-per-click advertising. For example, if you do a search for “digital camera“, you will see a list of sponsored listings on the right hand side of the page. These are companies that are bidding on this term.
You only pay when people click
The great thing about Google Adwords is you only pay when someone clicks on your ad. How much you pay for that click depends on your industry. Some industries like “web hosting” are expensive, however, most industries are very reasonable and cost effective. It really just depends on the competitiveness of your industry.
More effective than traditional advertising
The key thing is that you are getting targeted traffic, people looking specifically for a product or service, and this means your ad budget with Google is much more efficient than say a Yellow page ad, newspaper ad or a direct mail postcard.
Target searches based on your location
Another great thing about Google Adwords is the ability to limit searches based on your geography. You can tell Google that you only want to get searches from your state, your town, etc.
You set your own budget
You are also able to tell Google how much you wish to spend. You can set your daily budget to whatever you feel comfortable, $25, $50, $100+ a day. It’s all up to you.
I suggest you check out Google Adwords as another great resource to promote your website.
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One of the most frustrating things you can deal with in life is spam. It’s very easy to spend 15 minutes a day just deleting spam, in fact I’ve know some customers that spent more. Spam really kills your productivity.
Although, we work very hard to reduce spam for all customers via a technique called greylisting and other techniques, at no additional charge, we have found this is not always enough.
We decided we needed a dedicated server device to just handle spam. After months of research, we decided on the Barracuda Spam Firewall 900. This is a great product that is specifically designed for preemptively blocking spam and viruses. Most customers that upgrade to the Barracuda Spam Firewall see results within just a few minutes.
Benefits of using Barracuda Spam Firewall:
If you are experiencing a lot of spam and would like to reduce this to zero, all you would have to do is upgrade your account to Plan B or C, you can make the upgrade request here.
If you are already on one of these plans, just submit a support ticket here to request Barracuda setup for your account.
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