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Adhost Powers the New Orleans Saints Web Site
Posted in Company News
The Adhost Team would like to congratulate the New Orleans Saints on their incredible Super Bowl victory. As a behind-the-scenes partner for the Saints, Adhost supplies the redundant bandwidth, dedicated servers, Web server administration, system monitoring, data back-up, and firewall services to their Web site.
It has been exciting to watch the correlation of the Saints’ dramatic success on the field to their greatly increased network activity. After the Saints won the Super Bowl, their traffic reached an all-time high. Although unsurprised, we were pleased that our network handled their extra traffic without an issue.
The Saints have been an Adhost client for the last three NFL seasons. We work closely with the Cypress Consulting, another Seattle company, which provides the Web site development for www.neworleanssaints. Site features include Saints news, player interviews, photo galleries, ticket sales, and community news.
Of course, we are pleased that the Saints won. But more importantly, we are happy for the people of New Orleans who suffered such devastation during Katrina.
posted by Will R 12:16 pm February 8, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Adhost Joins Hosting for Haiti
Posted in IndustryAdhost is joining forces with Hosting for Haiti, an online project that is raising funds and awareness for the American Red Cross’ efforts in Haiti. Normally, a competitive group of companies, Web hosting companies are coming together to help the people of Haiti recover from the devasting earthquake on January 12 and numerous aftershocks.
Money raised through hostingforhaiti.com will provide the American Red Cross with funds for mobilizing relief workers, send relief supplies and provide financial resources for recovery. All of the money donated on the site goes directly to the American Red Cross.
Please donate today. You can also help spread the word by following @hostingforhaiti on Twitter or use the hash tag #hostingforhaiti.
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How Video Can Improve Search Ranking
Posted in IndustryWhile researching how video can improve your Web site’s search engine ranking, I came across these helpful articles:
Conversation Marketing: Image and Video Search – How to Optimize
SEOmoz Blog: SEO for Video Content and An Intro to Video Search Optimization
American Express Open Forum: The Little Known Secret to Getting Page 1 Google Rankings
Enjoy!
posted by Amy R 12:40 pm January 8, 2010permalink | digg this | technorati
Big Announcements from Google
Posted in IndustryIn the past few days Google announced two big changes to how it will display search results:
1. Personalized Search Results - Instead of displaying the same results to everyone who does the same search, Google is now personalizing the results based on your searches over the past 180 days. Check out these articles for more information:
- Google Blog: Personalized Search for everyone
- Search Engine Land: Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results
- Search Engine Land: Google’s Personalized Results: The “New Normal” That Deserves Extraordinary Attention
2. Real-time Search Results - Google will be incorporating real-time results from Twitter, Google News and other sources on its search results pages. See examples and more details at:
- Google Blog: Relevance meets real-time web
- Search Engine Land: Google Launches Real Time Search
- TechFlash: Google’s eye-catching updates
Time will tell how will these changes affect search engine optimization strategies for business Web sites.
posted by Amy R 11:49 am December 8, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
SANS Security Newsletter
Posted in SecurityThe December SANS Ouch! Newsletter (aka the Security Newsletter for Computer Users) is available and contains useful computer jargon in plain English. As the editor notes: ‘Computer jargon appears more and more in the news and pops up in everyday conversation. When you are in over your head with a computer problem, familiarity with these terms will help you communicate more effectively with IT or your computer consultant.’
Do you know the difference between 3G and 4G? How about ransomware and spyware? Sniffing and social engineering? If not, check out the December SANS Ouch.
posted by Amy R 6:01 pm December 7, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Webinar: How to Outsmart your PPC Competition
Posted in Seattle Internet EventsSeattle-based Point It presented a webinar titled “How to Outsmart your PPC Competition” on Wednesday, December 16th from 11 am-noon. If you missed it, you can view the online recording. Here’s the description:
Ah competition, the lifeblood of business. Do you know what your competitors are up to in paid search? Even worse, do your competitors know what you’re up to while you’re running blind?
Join Jon Lisbin and Maria Nikishyna as they take a deep dive into shark infested waters of paid search. In this webinar you will learn:
- How to prevent your competitors from seeing your PPC Ads
- What are the best ways to buy competitor’s branded keywords on paid search
- Tricks and tips on how to handle competitors buying your branded terms
- How to keep an eye on what your competition is doing in paid search
- Some of competitive tools used by Point It
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Puget Sound Business Journal Web Developers List
Posted in Company NewsWe’re proud to announce the Adhost Development Team is #14 on the 2009 Web Developers List in last week’s Puget Sound Business Journal. It’s our 6th year on the list!
In other Adhost Development Team news, our lead designer Doug gave the www.adhostdevelopment.com home page a wonderful makeover which includes screen shots of client sites and content blocks with stylish green buttons for each of our development services.
We also posted our latest client case study for the Big Dipper Wax Works ecommerce site. And have just helped Skyline Engineering upgrade their e-commerce site and transfer it and all their legacy data from another host.
posted by Rex 1:15 pm November 5, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Network Security Webinar Presented by WatchGuard
Posted in Company News, SecurityEmerging Network Security Threats Stopped: How secure is your network?
Join Adhost and WatchGuard for a fast paced webinar where you will learn about the power of Unified Threat Management (UTM) for protecting your essential employee, customer and business data.
When: Thursday, November 12, 11 am – 12:30 pm PST
Topics to be covered include:
* Today’s security landscape
* Inspecting the applications we use
* Bots malware review
* Egress filtering and data loss
* Definition
* Strategies
Who should attend:
* Adhost clients with colocated and dedicated servers
* Businesses looking to safeguard their internal networks
The presenter will be WatchGuard Senior Sales Engineer Peter McNaull. As a WatchGuard Expert Partner, Adhost offers WatchGuard firewall products and services.
posted by Amy R 12:21 pm November 2, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Social Media Events with the PSAMA
Posted in Seattle Internet EventsThe Puget Sound American Marketing Association (PSAMA) is hosting two lunches focused on Social Media. Check out these opportunities to network in person and learn more about online networking:
1. Thursday, Oct. 29, 11:30 am-1:30 pm: Social Media at ‘the Hutch’
We’ll cover the practical and applied-side of social media – including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – at a large non-profit cancer research center. You’ll hear about what we’ve done and why, lessons we’ve learned and what we’re considering for the future. The discussion will also include metrics, ROI (return on intangibles), and advice to those getting started. Register.
2. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm: Building Brand with Social Media: How Starbucks Does It and What They’ll do Next
Are you ready to take your social media presence beyond the occasional Tweet and Facebook post? Find out how to step up your social media strategy from a company that’s thriving in the social media space: Starbucks. By moving from experimenting with social media to actively incorporating it into the company’s brand marketing plans, Starbucks has become the most popular brand on Facebook, with more than 4.1 million fans. Starbucks’ Official Tweeter Brad Nelson will reveal how the company’s social media initiatives are intimately coordinated with traditional media. Learn more and register.
posted by Amy R 12:47 pm October 28, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Adhost Joins Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program
Posted in Company NewsAdhost is an approved Hosting Partner for Microsoft’s new WebsiteSpark program. The program is aimed at small Web development and design companies (Web Pros) who want to gain expertise on the Microsoft platform.
Benefits for Web Pros include:
- Design and development software: Visual Studio, Expression Studio, Expression Web, Windows Web Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 Web
- Production and deployment software: Windows Web Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Web
- Support and training
- New business opportunities
We can approve existing Adhost clients looking to use Microsoft technology for new sites or Web Pros looking for an experienced Windows host – we are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with over 12 years of Windows hosting experience.
Adhost is offering dedicated Windows server packages with free Windows and SQL licenses starting at $149/month for WebsiteSpark Web Pros. All of our dedicated servers include 24×7 tech support, 24×7 remove hands, offsite monitoring, 100% uptime SLA and much more.
To learn about Web Pro qualifications and apply for the program, visit our WebsiteSpark page.
posted by Amy R 10:55 am October 13, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
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