I have added some webmaster related tools to The Web Hosting Blog that I think you will find useful throughout your day-to-day life as a webmaster. There are currently 5 tools available but will be releasing more as soon as I find suitable scripts for various website tasks. Included so far are:

Website Speed Tester – [...]

When buying advertising on websites, you usually have to rely on the webmaster of the site to send you accurate traffic reports. But how do you know the webmaster isn’t making up the stats to try and get more money out of you?
Fortunately, we can use Google PageRank and Alexa Rank to get a rough [...]

I am going to cover a very basic topic today – How to connect your domain name to your new web hosting service. Even though this is a very easy to do, I still find a lot of people asking how to do it, or are still slightly confused between DNS forwarding vs Name servers.
Before [...]

When you have a problem with your web hosting provider, it is important that you communicate properly with them in order to get your problem resolved as soon as possible. I have noticed that customers who use effective communication also get their issues resolved the quickest.

How to create a support ticket the right [...]

When it comes to starting a successful website, you must divide your efforts into two main areas:Developing content and ways to drive traffic to that content. In order to be successful, you need to invest extensively(time and money) into each area. You may have the best looking website with the most awesome content in the [...]

While the most well known web hosts like HostGator, BlueHost, DreamHost, Yahoo, etc. have the most customers, it doesn’t mean that they are the best web hosting providers out there. In fact, there is something that a smaller, start up, host can offer that these providers can not – a personalized service. The larger, well known, hosts have so many customers that you are just a another number out of the hundreds of thousands of other clients. A smaller web host will go that extra yard because your business means a lot more to them than your well known hosting options.

I was reading through my favorite web hosting forum, webhostingtalk.com, where I came across a thread about this new feature Google has for measuring the popularity of a search term over the past 4 years. It’s called Google trends and can be found at Google.com/trends. Anyway, I was curious to the search volume of the [...]