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Frequently Asked Questions
 Q: I'm not
exactly sure what a Web host is. Can you please explain?
A: Just like you may own your own phone but won't be able to
make calls until the phone company hooks your phone to the telephone
system, your Web site has to be hooked to the Internet. A Web host is a company that
connects your site to the Internet and provides you with server space for
your Web site. The server space is where the
actual electrons reside that make up your site which includes all of the
pages and pictures associated with your Web site. When
your site's Internet address is typed into a browser,
the Web host connects your site to the Internet and displays the
site's pages. HUEY Productions provides Web
hosting for their clients at an extremely affordable rate as low as
$12/month.
Q: Can the
place I host my site affect my site's ranking on the search engines?
A: Absolutely! Make sure your Web host's server is fast and
reliable. If your Web server doesn't answer a query fast enough when
a search engine spider tries to visit your site, your Web pages won't
be listed in the search engine. For that reason, it is important to
choose a reliable host that provides fast connect speed. HUEY
Productions continually monitors its server to insure the client
sites are up and connecting fast to the Internet. A sample report is
shown below. Click HERE to read
more about our hosting packages.
Q: I have been
considering hosting my site with a free hosting company, but I'm a
little concerned with their reliability. Can you shed some light?
A: NEVER host a commercial Web site with a
free hosting service. These services are highly unreliable and could
care less if your site goes down. Their main concern is with their
advertisers. As long as their ads are up and running, for the most
part, they could care less about you or your site. In addition, sites
hosted with free services look very unprofessional. If you've taken
the time to get your own Web site
professionally designed and
will be getting your own domain name, why
would you risk your success and host with a free service? It's just
not worth it.
Q: Can I have
music playing in the background?
A: Yes. We have a list of thousands of titles. Bring us the name
of the selection you'd like playing in the background and we'll try to
find it. Just remember, that having music playing in the background
will slow the loading of that page. If you plan on a page with lots of
graphics, we'd discourage having the page load even slower because of
background music.
Q: How do
search engines determine who gets listed first?
A: They follow a set of rules, with one of the main rules involving the
location and frequency of keywords on a Web page. Call it the
location/frequency method, for short. Pages with keywords
appearing in the title are assumed to be more relevant than others to
the topic. Search engines will also check to see if keywords appear
near the top of a Web page, such as in the headline or in the first
few paragraphs of text. They assume any page relevant to the topic
will mention those words right from the beginning. They use the same
rules as your 7th Grade english teacher did when grading your essays.
Q: What are keywords you talk about?
A: How do you think people will search for your Web page? The
words you imagine them typing in the search box are your strategic
keywords. For example, say you have a page devoted to stamp
collecting. Anytime someone types "stamp collecting," you want your
page to be in the top results. Then those are your strategic keywords.
Each page will have different strategic keywords reflecting the page's
content. For example, if you have another page about the history of
stamps. Then "stamp history" might be your keywords for that page.
Q: I've used one word keywords. Is that OK?
A: Your strategic keyword phrases should always be at least two or more
words long. On the major search engines, 80% of the people will use
two words or more. Usually, too many sites will be relevant for a
single word, such as "stamps." This "competition" means your odds of
success are lower. Don't waste your time fighting the odds. Pick
phrases of two or more words, and you'll have a better shot at
success.
Q: Should I have a links page on my Web site?
A: All search engines can determine the popularity of a page by
analyzing how many links there are to a site from other sites. Some
engines use this as a means to determine which pages they will include
in the index. The number and the type of Web sites that link to your
site is very important. If you want to get high search engine
rankings, try to get as many links from related Web sites as possible.
It's not only important that many other sites link to yours, it's also
important the links are from related sites and that the link text
contains keywords related to the keyword phrases for which you want to
have high search engine rankings.
Q: Is tax added to
the prices you quote?
A: Unfortunately most services involved with Web site construction
are
subject to tax for Texas residents. There are a few exceptions. For an explanation of what
is taxed, and at what rate, click
HERE.
Q: "I recently launched a new
Web site and submitted
it to the search engines, but haven't
received the first visitor. Is there
something I'm missing here?"
A: Although launching your
Web site and submitting it
(or having it submitted) to the search
engines is a great start, it is only the
first step. Many new Internet entrepreneurs
believe that all they need to do is launch
their Web site and visitors will
automatically start scrambling to their site. Unfortunately,
it just doesn't work that way. Driving a steady stream of
traffic to your Web site takes a
great deal of time and effort. You must develop a strategic
marketing plan and continuously work it.
The best advice I can offer is this...get your
site listed on as
many Web sites as you possibly can. The more
links you have pointing to your site, the
more traffic you'll receive.
There are many ways you can obtain
links to your site:
1.
Submit (or have submitted ) your site to the
Search Engines and Directories.
2.
Exchange links with similar
sites.
3.
Write articles and allow them to
be freely published with
your bylines.
We highly recommend you use a
combination of the above traffic generating
techniques.
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