Host Pond Web Hosting, Portland Oregon http://www.hostpond.com Fri, 17 May 2013 16:51:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Domain Registrations & Web Hosting http://www.hostpond.com/2013/03/27/domain-registrations-web-hosting/ http://www.hostpond.com/2013/03/27/domain-registrations-web-hosting/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:00:38 +0000 Richard Powell http://www.hostpond.com/?p=99

Check here to see if your domain (website address, e.g. www.hostpond.com) is available for purchase. Sign up for one of our two affordable web hosting packages.

Host Pond offers affordable web hosting packages — $4.95/month for personal web hosting and $9.95/month for business hosting.

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Personal Hosting - $4.99 a month

  • free domain name included
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  • 5GB Bandwidth
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  • Free domain name included
  • 10GB Storage
  • 25GB Bandwidth
  • 100 MySQL Databases
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Come to Sellwood and meet us in person! At Host Pond Web Hosting, you won't be transferred to a call center in another time zone.

In the web hosting industry, there is a terrible lack of personal interaction and a bad policy of shifting customer support to remote locations. Not here at Host Pond — we meet with clients in person, giving them the time to express their website needs and design ideas.

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Come to Sellwood and meet us in person!  At Host Pond Web Hosting, you won’t be transferred to a call center in another time zone.

In the web hosting industry, there is a terrible lack of personal interaction and a bad policy of shifting customer support to remote locations. Not here at Host Pond — we meet with clients in person, giving them the time to express their website needs and design ideas.

We have an open-door policy, but recommend that you schedule an appointment in order to be assured that your time will be uninterrupted.

Our friendly staff is available Monday through Friday from 10am-6pm to answer any questions.

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Host Pond offers several Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services to its customers.

All new business hosting customers receive two free hours of technical support and website work. Once your site is up and running with Host Pond, you can use any amount of those two hours toward these SEO services.

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]]> seoHost Pond offers several Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services to our customers.  We offer a few basic SEO services at very affordable rates because we want your business and website to succeed.  You’ll notice the non-hosting-customer price is much higher.  You could easily expect to pay that amount for these SEO services.

All new business hosting customers receive two free hours of technical support and website work. Your two hours is not used up during the migration process, as migration is also included. Once your site is up and running with Host Pond, you can use those two hours toward these SEO services.

 

 

Service Description / Impact Hours Non Hosting Customer Rate Hosting Customer Rate
Detailed Analysis (Step One)
The first step in optimizing your website is research.  Research your desired keywords, research your competition, research the effectiveness of your website.

During this phase, we will sit down with you in person or setup a conference call.  This initial meeting will last for approximately 1 hour.  During this meeting we will setup a few accounts (like Google Analytic’s and webmaster tools) to begin collecting information on your website traffic.  After this meeting, Host Pond will take another hour to research the likely effectiveness of your proposed keywords based on how saturated the market is for your products or services.   We may propose moving forward with your keywords, or we may suggest some alternatives for reaching a customer base for your website and/or service.  Ultimately, we will proceed with the keywords you decide upon.

 2 $125 $50
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Basic SEO (Step Two)
Basic SEO for your WordPress or other CMS-based website. This includes incorporating your desired keywords into all the web pages of your website. In particular, into the Title, Description, and Keywords area of all your web pages.

This is one of the most important first steps. It will enable search engines, such as google.com, to determine what your website and web pages are about. Without these basic settings, your website has little hope of being listed properly in any of the search engines.

 1 $75 $25
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Image Naming/Tagging (Step Three)
Renaming and describing your images.

The images on your website are another way that search engines determine what your website is about. Improperly named/titled images can hurt your ranking. This cost is based on naming/renaming up to 10 images on your website.

 1 $75 $25
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Permalinks and URL fixing (Step Four)
Internal links naming. We will go through up to 25 of your primary internal website links/pages and alter their URL/address so that your keywords are reflected throughout your website.

Having search-engine-friendly page addresses that contain your keywords is important so that search engines can get a better idea of what the individual pages on your website are about. This is helpful for having secondary keywords and key phrases that can be targeted on a single page of your website.

 1 $75 $25
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Links and Listings (Step Five)
Links and Listings. We will add your business to three of the most important directories in terms of increasing your visibility to the search engines. This includes yelp.com, maps.google.com, and merchantcircle.com.

Having external links pointing to your website from 3rd party websites is one of the best ways to increase your rankings in the search engines. At Host Pond, we have had reasonable success when adding company profiles to the three websites listed here. We have also found that, by creating a webmaster tools account and adding Google Analytics code to your website, changes made to your website are more rapidly visible on google.com

 2 $125 $50
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Make your web-based project a success with guidance from our free WordPress classes.

You can register to attend one of our classes at your convenience.

You don't need to be a customer to take advantage of this FREE training.

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Make your web-based project a successful one with guidance from our free WordPress classes. You don’t need to be a customer to take advantage of this FREE training.

You can register to attend one of our classes at your convenience.

Come prepared with ideas for your website — or with no ideas at all!

Upcoming Classes

Build Your Website – 05/21/2013 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Build Your Website – 06/04/2013 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Build Your Website – 06/25/2013 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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What is a TLD and how can it help my business?

A Top Level Domain might give your website domain a more specific audience and improve your visibility. Instead of www.johnsflowers.com, choose a more creative domain like www.johns.flowers. There over 600 new TLD's coming online over the next few years!

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What is a Domain Name? (DNS)TLD stands for Top Level Domain. It refers to the characters after the final period (.) in your domain (the mostly commonly seen TLDs are .com, .net and .org). The currently available TLDs have been around for decades, making it difficult for new website owners to purchase the domain name they desire. For example, your business could be called John’s Flowers, and you would like to purchase the domain johnsflowers.com — but someone has probably already purchased that domain.

 

With the upcoming release of new TLDs, you could purchase the domain johns.flowers or perhaps johnsflowers.llc. Imagine the possibilities for promoting your business!

 

Sort through the full list below of new Top Level Domains (TLD) that may be available soon. Please note that ICANN must approve them before they will become available (so this list may change before these come online). If you’re interested in reserving a domain under one of these top levels, please send an email to details@hostpond.com and let us know. We’ll keep an eye on it for you, and let you know when it becomes available.  Existing customers can create a watch-list for new domain names by going to My Account and logging in.  Then use the New TLDs menu option to start your watch-list.

 

New Top Level Domains (TLDs)

 

Note: There are also Sanskrit and Asian TLDs also coming soon that are not listed on this page.

 

more complete list of Top Level Domains.pdf

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