Does a template site hurt the SEO (Search Engine Optimization of your website?

This is an important question and an easy answer to give and explain. Websites that are created with off-the-shelf templates are not as respected by the various search engine BOTS (Robots) such as the Google BOT and Yahoo Slurp.

The Search Engines want to provide their search users the best possible answer to their query and a website with a template design is not as demonstrative of a real effort as is a custom designed website. The Search BOTS value the truly unique nature of a website design and development as a customized structure in such a high level when compared to a template design hundreds and thousands of others choose to use.

Then add the fact that a cleanly coded unique website will perform much easier against the server structure and this adds to the amount of pages the search BOTS choose to index when coming through your website. When too much bandwidth is required the search BOTS leave and go elsewhere.

Always ask our experienced design team whatever questions you have regarding the design or re-design of your companies website design and development. Just email design@BarakHosting.com

How valuable is a Dedicated IP Address

Much more valuable than you realize. When the search engine BOTS (robots) index your website one of the points they are tabulating is whether your website resolves with a Dedicated IP Address or not. They put a very high value on a website having a Dedicated IP Address compared to one without. Many hosting companies have your website on a Shared Hosting environment but do not have you on a Dedicated IP Address or even offer this as an option. Barak Hosting offers this valuable tool for only $29.00 per year and the benefits are numerous.

Instead of your website being on the same IP address as thousands of others it resides on a totally unique IP address from ANY other website in the world - the World Wide Web of course.

Ask Barak Hosting about this exceptional value for your business Sales@BarakHosting.com

VPS Hosting provides a great platform

We have clients that use Shared Hosting, Dedicated Servers and of course VPS which has become so popular for our business clients. VPS is the acronym for Virtual Private Servers and allows a website to have a dedicated amount of resources from processor usage, hard drive space and of course RAM to much more.

On average and depending on the hard drive space specified VPS hosting costs about four times what a Shared platform does but the benefits are so impressive and for a business very easy to justify.

Start with a dedicated amount of RAM and this really is so critical. Shared Hosting environments are very dependent on how much activity the other sites are getting and it is not unusual for a slow down in performance during the peak times of the day for usage. For example when the kids get home from school in the early afternoon and all go to their computers usage rises very fast. With a Virtual Private Server this is no concern.

When a business operates an extended number of websites all of a sudden the costs per site decrease as you can host as many as you want in this environment with no extra costs. Sure you could add a dedicated IP address to each website but at $29.00 per year at Barak Hosting this is a minimal fee. When a business operates four or more sites the costs begin to not only even out but actually decrease per website hosting platform.

Barak Hosting offers a number of VPS options and the most popular is the VPS 20GB version. You can review these at http://BarakHosting.com/linux_vps.html and please ask us any questions so you can become more informed