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Hi everyone,

Weve decided to offer the gift of half price hosting to everyone until the 31st of December just to show how much we appreciate your business. This is our gift to our new and exsisting customers who take out extra hosting accounts before the 31st. To take advantage of this fantastic offer please use the voucher code xmas which is now active until midnight on the 31st!!

Remember, all of our hosting accounts now come with a FREE domain name for the life of the account!

We wish everyone a very merry xmas and a happy new year!

Andrew,
Hosted Web Administrator

Hi all,

Yesterday we dropped our domain name registration prices (some even by half!) to offer you even better value for your money. You can now register a UK domain name for an amazingly low price of £2.99 per year. You can also now register .com domains for only £5.99! These prices are highly competitive and still offer the full features that we offer with all domains.

Of course, our UK domains are  still 100% FREE with any yearly paid hosting account so thats even cheaper again!

Hope you like the changes, all feedback is welcome.

Happy Hosting

Andrew
Hosted Web Administrator

Hi all, 

Today our core software (the software that our own site runs on) is in the process of being upgraded. The new upgrade will bring even better usability to our customers and better support system features to help you if you run into any problems. Please bear with us while the upgrade takes place which will be between 18:30 and 19:30 hours UK time. 

Were constantly striving to provide you with the best possible hosting experience, as a result these kinds of upgrades are essential.

Andrew,
Hosted Web Administrator

Our web hosting service is proudly listed in Web Host Rank Info - a list of top quality web hosting companies.

Welcome to this factual article about Google sitemaps, I’m going to explain to you exactly what Google sitemaps are, how they can be used and why your site should never be without one.

So, what are Google Sitemaps?

A Google sitemap is pretty much what it says on the tin, a map of your website that the Google bots can follow to help them index your website more effectively. 

Why should i have a Google sitemap?

As I’m sure you already know, today the Internet is flooded with billions of web sites. Due to this fact, Google no longer has the processing power to simply find every single website on the net and index it. The solution they came up with was to launch the well known Google sitemaps system where webmasters can index there own websites. If you don’t submit a sitemap to Google, don’t be surprised if your web site takes an age to index or update in Googles cache, Google will obviously go for the sites that are trying to help them first!

Right, ok so i need a map, how do i get one?

Setting up a Google sitemap can mean a call to the web developer who will whip one up for you within 30  minutes. If your hosting with hosted web however we have it covered! Simply log into your hosting control panel and click on the Google sitemaps option, within seconds your sitemap is ready and it will even upload it to Google for you if you wish!

Sounds like i should be hosting with you guys..

That would be a great bonus for your web site, hosted web provide LOADS of useful tools click here to take a look at our hosting packages and take a free trial on us >> Hosting packages

That’s it for this article, i hope you enjoyed reading it and found it informative.

Andrew,
Hosted Web Support.

Hi all,

Today im just dropping a note to say that all of our hosting packages have SSL enabled at no extra cost. Many other web hosting companys charge for this service but we belive security for your web site should be free. Take advantage of this and our many other free extras by signing up today!

Andrew,
Hosted Web Administrator

Hi everyone, 

Im happy to say that the hosting control panel that all of our customers use has been upgraded to become one of the most advanced control panels for hosting in the world. Its now using web 2.0 technologies to make it as secure, stable and useful as physically possible. Web 2.0 is fast becoming the new standard for web design and hosting technologies so we are also in the process of upgrading our entire website and hosting platform to the 2.0 standard so watch this space!

Andrew,
Hosted Web Administrator

Hi everyone, 

Today i thaught i’d give you some advice on checking your web sites link popularity. Link popularity is one of the most important things your website can have to help it achive high rankings in Google as well as other search engines.  Its not down to the number of links you have, but the quality of the links. Google wants to see valuable websites linking to you, not crappy sites with no reputation. If it see’s valued websites linking to you, it will make your website more valued as a result.. The more valued your website is by Google, the higher your ranks!

Checking your link popularity 

Work on your link popularity and check it at least weekly using a free tool like LPC (Link Popularity Checker). this software is compleatly free and works perfectly. Download it from http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/start-download.htm

Building your link popularity

Use a REPUTABLE link building service, there are many rogue companys out there who can damage your web sites reputation within weeks. I would reccomend Link Market http://www.linkmarket.net

..Thats it for now, i hope this short article helps you!

Andrew,
Hosted Web Administrator

Hi all,

We have added more free software to our downloads section. This time its the GSiteCrawler software which creates a Google sitemap for your website so that Google can crawl your site properly. Theres also an online stemap generator within your hosting control panel which will scan your hosting account and produce a map. 

Andrew,
Hosted Web Admnistrator

Hi all,

As always we have another great hosting offer on eBay UK. This time its on the One Ultimate hosting account. We are offering half price hosting with any payment plan. If you pay yearly then you’ll get a free domain name to boot! Take a look at our items on eBay, our user ID is hosted_web.

Andrew,
Hosted Web Administrator