takeing my news site to the next level

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by eycel, Sep 28, 2010.

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    Hi, IV been working on and off on a news site for a year or so over at mplays.co.cc. Id like to move the site over to paid hosting with .com domain so I can maybee add google's adds to it and to help with seo. When it comes to this type of stuff most of the time I think I can do everything my self and figure it out but I need some friendly advice with this one. Id like to know which direction I can take this site so I can gain a little from it and what company to buy webhosting from. Iv talked to a few webhosting companys and I really like FDC servers but there out of my price point unless I can make that much from advertising. Any advice would be beneficial to me, thanks. Here are some screenshots of my awstats of mplays.co.cc. [​IMG]
     
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    Your web site is not consuming a lot of bandwidth and I do not think it is consuming a lot of disk space either, I recommend you to go for shared web hosting plans, you can view the hosting advertising section and choose from there. my advise is to choose a quality hosting provider.

    I would recommend you to change the title of your web site to: International Science & Celebrity News | Global Technology & Entertainment News - MPlays

    You can change the description to a more representative and comprehensive one, for example: MPlays provides the latest global news covering science, celebrity, technology and entertainment news, as well as international major events.

    Also, you are linking to other web sites from all the pages that I have checked randomly, it is not good from SEO point of view to do so, It is better to create a section or a page called (Partners) or (Resources) and to link to other web sites from there. Also, you should not link to web sites that are not related to your web site content unless you have to do so.

    You can offer banner advertising opportunities, but you need to optimize your web site first, promote it and change the design to attract more visitors and advertisers.
     
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    Thanks for the reply, its much apreciated. As far as SEO is concerned, Iv actually got a extension on my joomla install im using called sh404SEF. Its pritty amazing extension as far as SEO goes but just looking through all the SEO plugins for joomla is daunting to say the least. I haven't touched this website in over a year so it keeps it self runing with crons and componenets in webhosting panel and joomla administrator. As far as linking to other sites, my site is just a news portal so theres really no way of getting around that part of it but I have thought of wanting to start my own internet news channel before. As far as optimizing it like I said I have the sh404SEF component for meta tags/redirects/sef urls and other things. What kind of design changing would I need to do? I have worked extensively with a number of advertising companys with all the PPM, PPC, PPP, PPA. Havent made any money but still fun to learn some of the stuff that makes the internet go round.
     
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