Bogdan Pop : Web development , Photography , Dj

The title of this article is very descriptive. You would think that the title of the article is important to the effect generated by this piece of content. Well, it isn’t. I had an idea few days ago, that I wanted to test out. This is why I have posted the Yahoo in 13 images article, which is basically a simple post, containing a few slides with the evolution of one Power website.

That very post had a few basic ingredients, which translated into a 2000% (actually 1993%) increase in traffic if I compared traffic generated on 14th of May, 2008 to medium traffic generated daily on my website. So, what was the ingredient. Well, it contained sticky information about a very popular website, among internet users and web developers too. That was all. The glory of Yahoo! did everything for me.

Moreover, hits have increased by 700% (actually 685%).

Bottom line, all you need to do is find a catchy story in your niche, make it public, and if afterwards you submit it to a few social websites you will definitely hit the jackpot.

Another small tip for you: Try finding at least 10 such interesting ideas, post them consecutively one after each other as soon as you see the traffic spike is going back down. This way you could build for at least one whole month steady huge traffic and get your site up and running for good.

Imagine where you could end up. 50 Mb traffic today. 2000% increase in one month will be 1 Gb per day. You will earn from that site lots of money.

Cheers!

A couple of months back, I wrote a small piece of article with a new website that contained reviews about web hosting companies. Today, I have discovered a new one. Well, not new, new only to me.

Web Hosting Geeks is very complex compared to other websites in this niche. Let me explain why. First of all, they do not offer just web hosting reviews. They have more than that. They have web hosting reviews that are submitted by users, a web hosting awards section, more than 25 links to related websites and partners, and a web hosting articles section.

For example, I went on into their website’s categories, and I got to a review of Blue Host. I guess this was inevitable due to the fact that Blue Host provide their services to around half a million websites (not necessarily individuals). I have found 5 reviews submitted by users, and this is how I found out that their support is rude sometimes. Here, from my experience, I will try to back up Blue Host a little. Why? Because when your end clients are lots of different people (from web designers to individuals with blogs that have nothing to do with web development), you will definitely get questions like, how do I update my email password from 100 of them, even you have a simple KB article. So, sometimes, support technicians dealing with such people could get a bit rude. I know I would.

Back to the topic. Web Hosting Geeks also provide a graph of Blue Host’s uptime. This is great facility for such a site, and I don’t think I have seen this on other websites, other than Hosting Speeds, which is a bit un administered nowadays.

You can also find out what features you get at Blue Host, if they got any awards from who knows what organizations, that without going to their homepage. This way, you can stay in one place and view valuable information about multiple webhosts. Once you make up your mind, you can go to the top three you chose, and order a first month for testing. At the end of that month, you will stick with the one that you like best.

Cheers!