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Hassle-Free Small Business Website Support – Call on a Friend!

Posted by on May 9, 2012 in Testimonials | 0 comments

Hassle-Free Small Business Website Support – Call on a Friend!

Imagine if your best friend was a small business website support expert. Website hosting advice that you can trust is as valuable as having a best friend who is also a pediatrician when it’s Sunday afternoon, and your baby is sick!  You know how it goes.  Your small business needs website support, and going through the endless automated systems other companies use for customer service has you frustrated.  Well, you’ve got a friend who’s an expert in small business websites! Let ClickHOST be your new BFF for small business website...

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10 WordPress Plugins for Business

Posted by on May 1, 2012 in Tips & Tricks | 3 comments

10 WordPress Plugins for Business

If WordPress is a set of building blocks for starting a blog or website, then WordPress plugins are the great bonus pieces that give your site the best design and function.  Once you have decided to start your website using WordPress, choose ClickHOST for the best small business or personal website hosting.  ClickHOST is the WordPress expert, so simple WordPress hosting begins here.  Next, you will find that there are thousands of plugins at your disposal, and many of these are free.  So how do you choose what you need and which plugins...

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Three Tips to Avoid Domain Name Scams

Posted by on Apr 13, 2012 in Three Tips on Friday, Tips & Tricks | 5 comments

Three Tips to Avoid Domain Name Scams

Domain name scams are lurking around every corner. Whether you are new or experienced in creating websites, you are the target of clever ploys to snatch your ideas, and empty your wallet.  While you may have already made some of these costly mistakes, you need to be aware of these three tips to avoiding domain name scams so you can avoid problems in the future.   Tip 1:  Don’t bite on clever junk mail It may look legit, but that piece of mail that looks like an invoice for your domain name is probably a clever Domain Name Scam like...

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Small business website hosting: Secret to success revealed!

Posted by on Apr 11, 2012 in Testimonials | 1 comment

Small business website hosting: Secret to success revealed!

When it comes to small business website hosting, Steven Van Schooten, www.hirethehandyman.com, turns to ClickHOST.  In his recent review, Steven explained, “I moved all my domains over to ClickHOST, because they are experts in small business website hosting. My home repair business relies upon the outreach that a great website can offer, and ClickHOST is dedicated to serving Atlanta businesses like mine.”   Steven’s Hire The Handyman site is designed using WordPress, the free web software you can use to create a beautiful website...

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Three Ways to Increase Blog Comments in WordPress

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 in Three Tips on Friday, Tips & Tricks | 1 comment

Three Ways to Increase Blog Comments in WordPress

So you have learned how to start a WordPress blog, you have chosen ClickHOST for the best WordPress blog hosting, (if not, click here get started), and now comes the million dollar question…  How do you increase blog comments?  Today, we offer three tips to help you with the care and feeding of your visitors, that will in turn increase blog post comments!  It all starts with great content.  Then you need to get out of your shell.  And don’t forget to be a friend, not a know-it-all expert!  Try these three tips, and then let us know...

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Mayhem Lurks. How to Come Back from a Hacker Attack!

Posted by on Mar 13, 2012 in Security | 12 comments

Mayhem Lurks. How to Come Back from a Hacker Attack!

Your small business website is working great.  Your personal website now features a WordPress blog. Whether it is a personal website or a small business website, you have invested time, talent, and money in creating a website. Hopefully, you have made the decision to use ClickHOST for simple hosting or WordPress hosting. But you may not realize that Mayhem lurks around every dark corner.  Maybe it is a hacker, ready to pounce on your unprotected site just for kicks (the recent Zappos.com breach is a good example).  Or maybe it is a clever...

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3 Tips to Create the Best Website

Posted by on Mar 2, 2012 in Three Tips on Friday, Tips & Tricks | 5 comments

3 Tips to Create the Best Website

Maybe you are thinking about starting a website or starting a blog.  Perhaps you already have a website, but it needs an “extreme makeover!”  Regardless of where you are in the process, you have a very important decision to make… And this decision will be the single most important factor in determining the effectiveness of your website… But before we get to that, let’s think about lunch.  Yes, lunch.  Did you pack your lunch today?  If you did, then it’s most likely something leftover from your dinner last night, or maybe...

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Personal Website Hosting: What is it, Exactly?

Posted by on Feb 27, 2012 in How to | 1 comment

Personal Website Hosting: What is it, Exactly?

When someone says “personal something,” that generally means there are other versions, right? Professional, general, public… Well, the same can be said for personal website hosting. There are several versions of web hosting – and the version you end up with all depends on what you expect from your website. Is Personal Web Hosting For You? This is the biggest question, because you could end up reading this whole article and find out it’s not what you want (and really, don’t you just hate that?). So let’s go down a quick...

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Simple Hosting for Websites… Simplified

Posted by on Feb 22, 2012 in How to | 1 comment

Simple Hosting for Websites… Simplified

You just. Want. A website. Just a simple website! Yet, everywhere you go to find out how to build one has all this… this… stuff! Wouldn’t it be great if you could find a single page that had all you need to know about starting one? Wouldn’t a simple hosting and website creation outline be wonderful? Step into our parlor and grab some quick learning!     Creating a Simple One-Page Website (5 Steps) The type of site you want to build makes all the difference in the world on how simple it can actually be (which goes a long...

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Small Business Web Hosting Explained

Posted by on Feb 20, 2012 in How to | 5 comments

Small Business Web Hosting Explained

Sometimes, a little bit of web server space just isn’t enough. Sometimes, your needs move beyond a personal website and into the small business arena. For those times, you need (trumpets and drum roll) small business web hosting. The Brief Version of Small Business Web Hosting If you don’t have a lot of time for the details, this is a quick look at what you need to find when searching for a web host for your small business:: 1 – 100 GB Bandwidth: Think of bandwidth like the size of the front door.  The more traffic you expect, and the...

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