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Google AdWords & Your Search Engine Marketing Odyssey
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We all know that getting your website set up is just the beginning of growing your online presence. For that reason, Lunarpages is dedicated to bringing you the information and resources you need to accelerate your business growth. Check out our website for information about our search engine marketing programs.
Recently we partnered with Google to send every Lunarpages customer a time-sensitive coupon to try Google AdWords. Be sure to check your mail and be sure to redeem the coupon quickly so you don’t forfeit it!
Our partner, LocalDirective, offers some tips to make best use of your coupon:
- The structure of information in Google is: Campaigns > AdGroups > Text Ads & Keywords.
- Before you get started, determine the geography you want to target. If you plan to target two different geographical areas, you will need to create a campaign for each one.
- For each campaign, you will have at least a few AdGroups. Think about AdGroups as thematic, so that for each area of focus, you will want to have one adgroup. If you are a plumber, for instance, you may have AdGroups for Sewer & Drain Cleaning, Emergency Plumbing, Plumbing Fixture Installation, etc.
- For each AdGroup, you will pick a number of keywords that you believe people might search for, using Google’s Keyword Tool to help you choose.
- For each AdGroup, you will want to set up at least two text ads, and choose to have the ads rotate, so you can find out what appeals most to your audience.
- For each text ad, instead of sending visitors to your home page, send them to the destination page that most closely matches the keywords in the AdGroup.
- Finally, don’t forget to redeem your coupon and set a daily budget so you don’t spend more than you want to!
- Then, sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor! Best of luck for SPECTACULAR results!!!
LocalDirective Announces The Online Marketing Program Contest Winner
Last month, our partner, LocalDirective held a contest for a FREE 30-day Basic SEM-SEO program, valued at $389. While dozens of entrants vied for the winning entry, alas, only one single winner was chosen. And the winner is….(drum roll, please)…
Donald, from www.fayekimdesigns.com. LocalDirective will be contacting you within the week to get your program set up. Congratulations!!
For the rest of you…you know you must market your website to achieve the fabulous results possible for your business, so contact LocalDirective at 1.888.613.7174 or CustomLP@LocalDirective.com to find out how they can help you achieve out-of-this-world results!
Redirect Links Using the LPCP
Posted by: | CommentsThe Lunarpages LPCP control panel enables web hosting clients with the ability to easily redirect web site visitor traffic from one web page or section of their web site to another. This is done without the need of learning the complicated way of managing domain redirects with .htaccess file manipulation. With this tool, you an easily redirect your web site visitors (permanently or temporally) from one page to another page.
The first step would be to login to your LPCP control panel, and then locate the “Redirects” link in the left side menu.
Once you click that link, you will be taken to the Redirects management web page.
Type
In the type drop down box, you have the choice of creating a permanent (301) redirect or a temporary (302) redirect.
http://(www.)?
In this drop down box, select the domain name for the web site in question, and in the following empty text box, put the address to the rest of the page – as based on the URL address location.
For example, if I wanted to redirect mydomain.com/page/homepage.html I would select mydomain.com from the drop down box, and put in page/homepage.html into the empty text box.
redirects to->
In this empty text box, you want to put the location of the new page you want to redirect to. When inputting the address, be sure to use the full URL path (example: http://www.yourdomain.com/pagetoredirectto.html).
www redirection
You have three choices when it comes to how you want to handle the www in the web site address.
- Only redirect with www
- Redirect with or without www
- Do Not Redirect www
If you check the “Wild Card Redirect” check mark box, you will redirect ALL files within a directory to the same file name in the redirected directory. When you are sure you have filled out all the boxes correctly, hit the button that reads, “Add” to add the redirect automatically.
Once a redirect has been added, it can also be deleted using the “Delete” option listed under the Current Redirects section of the page.
Tip: Are you a web hosting client using cPanel, rather than LPCP? If so, go read through our how to redirect pages in cPanel tutorial, featured on the web hosting wiki.
Lunarpages Jan/Feb Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsLunarpages, you perfect solution for your web hosting needs, is back to start the new year off right – with the first web hosting newsletter of 2010. Now, you might ask yourself – what took so long to get this out? Well, once you see all of the fantastic new deals, plans and offers – you will definitely see what has been keeping us all so busy.
Time to take a break, and read up about what is going on with Lunarpages.
Lunar News – Jan/Feb 2010 – We are here to start the new year off right with a plethora of news and details to keep you up to date with the most recent current events here at Lunarpages. Check out the newest promotions and specials you an get at Lunarpages.
New Online Marketing Advertising Plans – How can you make a bigger and better impact on the Web? Using the right online marketing techniques, any web site or business on the Internet can become a real success. Let me introduce you to the Lunarpages Online Marketing Services.
Reseller Hosting for Webmasters – The Lunarpages Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan is the perfect reseller package for webmasters and developers. You get full account management and monitoring for a really low price.
Web Hosting Gift Cards are Back! – Some of you might remember seeing our special holiday gift card offer a few months back, just in time for Christmas. Well, we are happy to announce that due to the great popularity of giving Lunarpages as a present, this is now a gift you can give at any time.
Up to $110 of MySpace Ad Credit, Just for YOU! - We do not have to tell you that being a Lunarpages client definitely has its perks. Not only are you partnered with the world’s greatest web hosting company, but you are eligible to very exclusive deals. Lunarpages is teaming up with MySpace’s MyAds service to help you reach a global internet audience.
20 More Ways to Make a Buck – Never turn down a man willing to give you a dollar. Now sure, we could give you a dollar, however we thought rather than giving you the dollar, we would show you how to make one instead.
Free Miva Merchant Setup at Lunarpages – It is easy to setup an e-commerce web site at Lunarpages, and with Miva Merchant you can be sure your online store will be a success. Using Miva Merchant 5.5, you can build a powerful storefront very easily. To sweeten the deal, Lunarpages is also going to setup this script for you, for free.
Add Social Badges to Quicksite Pages – The Quicksite hosting plan provides you with a great web-based WYSIWYG editor to edit, change and modify your web site’s content. You can also quickly add banners to all of your social network pages too, so that your web site visitors can stay connected to you via other locations on the Web.
Replace Business E-mail with TremenDesk – Many people just look at TremenDesk as one of the best stand-alone and fully-featured help desk solutions out there. Don’t get me wrong, it does that job extremely well, but some of our users have been thinking outside the box and using it in unique and interesting ways.
WooRank Bring Better Web Site Analysis – We often get asked by Lunarpages clients, how can I make my web site better? Now that is an open ended question that could be answered a hundred or more different ways. Rather than going through them all one by one, now we just point people at WooRank.com.
7 Most Retweeted Blog Posts of 2009 – We always love seeing people sharing the tutorials and articles we write up on a daily basis over at the Lunarpages Lunartics web hosting blog. Over the past year, we have seen a surge of popularity, and also a surge in retweeted links via Twitter for each of our posts that have been made.
That is it for this month’s edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter. We hope you enjoy this collection of articles, tutorials, tips and more we have created especially for you, the Lunarpages clients and customers. We always enjoy hearing your reaction, so please feel free to leave a comment or send your opinions to news@lunarpages.com.
Lunarpages December Newsletter
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Your friends and family at Lunarpages are in the holiday spirit, how about you? This month’s Lunarpages newsletter is all about giving back to others. What better way to celebrate the month than to give the best gift of all, the gift of a Lunarpages web hosting account. Along with that special deal, we will also be covering our new Xen VPS hosting plans, the introduction for the Intel® Core™ i7 dedicated servers we now offer, and much more.
Do not be a grinch, dive right into this month’s web hosting newsletter.
Lunar News – December 2009 – Just because the year is coming close to an end, that does not mean we are going to stop providing you with the best of the best. Check out this month’s collection of announcements and news-making features at Lunarpages.
Give the Gift of Web Hosting – This holiday season, why not give the gift that keeps on giving? The new Lunarpages Gift Cards come in four different variations and are perfect for those last-minute Christmas shoppers. Find out how you can grab one, and get a discount, today.
Xen Power Added to Lunarpages VPS Hosting – Lunarpages has introduced three new Virtual Private Server hosting plans, all powered by Xen based servers. We will let you know the prices, the performance differences, and why they are the top-of-the-line when it comes to VPS web hosting.
Half Price Flash Template Designs - Is your web site in need of a make over? You can now grab a great looking flash template for half the price it would have cost you before you read this newsletter. Find out how to grab a fantastic new face for your online site from Flash Template Design.
3 Simple Ways to Market Your Business, Project or Web Site – Looking for a way to bring new life into your own business, project or simply just your web site? This month we dissect three simple notions of marketing, and how you can do them better.
Add Instant Retweeters to your Web Site Layouts – By using a little creativity and the retweeting powers of a service like Topsy, you can quickly add retweet badges for your Twitter followers on your own web site layout by following the steps in this tutorial.
Intel Core i7 Dedicated Servers at Lunarpages – What happens when you mix one of the best dedicated hosts with the greatest processor for dedicated hosting today? The Intel Core i7 Dedicated Servers and they have arrived at Lunarpages.
Lunar Picks – How Do You Celebrate the Holidays? – With Christmas right around the corner, we thought it would be the right time to ask our Lunar Crew what they plan to do to celebrate the end of the year holidays.
How to Add a Badge and Earn Some Cash! – Are you looking to make back some of the cash you spent this holiday season on presents for family and friends? If you have a web site, you can easily put up a banner advertising Lunarpages and get paid for everybody who signs up after clicking through it.
Wiki-tastic Web Hosting Resources – Out of the 340+ guides, tutorials and more we have written up for the web hosting wiki, do you know which ones are the most popular of them all? In this month’s list of links we take a look at our handbook, the Lunarpages Web Hosting Wiki.
That is it for this month’s edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter. We hope you enjoy this collection of articles, tutorials, tips and more we have created especially for you, the Lunarpages clients and customers. We always enjoy hearing your reaction, so please feel free to leave a comment or send your opinions to affiliate@lunarpages.com.
Lunarpages November Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsFall is here in full swing, but do not let that get you down. The only thing falling at Lunarpages, is our prices! Both the Business hosting plan and Quicksite have received price cuts for new customers - but that is not all. We have an entire series of tutorials, articles, news topics and more to share with you this November.
Here is what we have lined up for you this month:
What big news is going on in the month of November? From web hosting plan savings, to how you can stay up to date with everything we publish; there is a little something for everybody. Get up to date with the latest web hosting news to come out of the Lunarpages headquarters.
A few issues back, we introduced you to the great web site error checker, DeepTrawl. Well, now we are happy to announce that we are giving to you the full featured DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition, totally free of charge!
How to Setup Anti-Spam Controls in LPCP
We have spoken before about the great features that come included with the new LPCP control panel. This time around, we are going to share with you how to easy it is to set up your anti-spam controls so you can keep the unsolicited e-mails out of your inbox, for good.
Getting More Visitors with Google AdWords
Lunarpages has teamed up with Google AdWords to give all first time advertisers an easy way to get their web sites out there to the public. Depending on the hosting plan you have, you could be eligible for up to $100 worth of free Google AdWords credit. We are here to help you get your Google AdWords advertising account started off on the right foot.
In an effort to help webmasters of every skill level, we have put together one of the most comprehensive guides to getting started with HTML. Created exclusively for Lunarpages customers in mind, we have put together a six part tutorial series that will educate you about the hyper text markup language.
Lunar Picks – What Gadget Are You Thankful For?
It is November, which means that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. To put a geeky spin on this favorite holiday of ours, we decided to ask the Lunarpages crew what their favorite gadgets are, and why are they thankful for them.
Setup Your Own “Share on Facebook” Button
One of the most popular social networks out there, by a big margin, is Facebook. You can now easily jump onto this social bandwagon by adding a “Share on Facebook” button to your own web site layout. This way, people can instantly share your web site with all their friends, family members and followers.
How to Password Protect Your Hosted Folders
Password protection is a good way to keep people out of a folder, or let a select group of people in. To give you more control and functionality, we recently added this feature to our LPCP powered hosting accounts. In this guide, we will walk you through the steps you need to take to password protect your own folders.
3 Fool Proof Ways to Advertise Any Web Site
Driving traffic to your web site is not always an easy thing to do. One of the most popular questions we get asked is, “how can I get more web site visitors?” This month, we have come up with three excellent and cost effective ways to get your web site known to the public at large.
View Your Page in Multiple Browsers Online!
With the help of Adobe’s BrowserLab, you can check to see how your web site looks on several different browsers and operating systems, virtually. This tool provides you a quick and easy way to check out your domain without having to install numerous browsers.
Over 20 Links for Statistical Stats
You can not mention web sites without mentioning statistics. Many of us webmasters love checking our web site traffic every day. This month, in our look at the best links from around the Web, we are focusing on the 20 best links for statistical and analytical statistics.
That is it for this month’s edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter. We hope you enjoy this collection of articles, tutorials, tips and more we have created especially for you, the Lunarpages clients and customers. We always enjoy hearing your feedback, so please feel free to leave a comment or send your opinions to affiliate@lunarpages.com.
Lunar News – November 2009
Posted by: | CommentsTime to grab the turkey and carve up some greater news, links and deals straight from the Lunarpages headquarters, in Anaheim, California. So what is the latest and greatest happenings at your favorite web host this month?
Save $72 on Your Next Business Hosting Plan Purchase
The perfect hosting plan for any e-commerce or business web site just got that much better. For a limited time, we have lowered the Business hosting plan price to just $18.95 per month. That is a savings of $72 if you sign up for a new Business hosting plan today, for 24 months. The Business hosting plan comes with a plethora of features. Some of those include, a free dedicated ip, a free dedicated SSL certificate, access to your very own TremenDesk account, and so much more. If you have been hesitant to grab a new Business hosting plan till the price is right, this is the time to act.
We are lowering our price to help put some more holiday cash in your pocket.
Have You Grabbed your 3 Month Free Trial to Keepit Yet?
Just about all Lunarpages customers have access to Keepit, the ultimate desktop backup solution. As a Lunarpages member, you get a free unlimited trial for three months to see if you enjoy how effortless, simple and automatic the service is. With many people migrating to Windows 7, now might be the best time to try it out. You can simply backup your files to Keepit, install Windows 7 and then put your files back in place. For more information on Keepit, be sure to check out our special offer page, and this tutorial which has much more information about this great offsite backup solution.
Grab a Quicksite for Just $9.95!
For a limited time only, Lunarpages has dropped the price of the Quicksite hosting plan to $9.95 per month, if you sign up for 12 months.
Quicksite allows you to take your website live in under 2 hours, with free setup, a grade A webpage editor and so much more. Also worth mentioning is the fact that you have over 500 unique templates to choose from. This is a terrific bonus to an already fantastic hosting plan. Get your $60 off your next Quicksite hosting plan purchase today!
Introducing the New Dedicated i7 Servers
Lunarpages is not only a leader in the shared and VPS hosting world, they are also a juggernaut when it comes to dedicated hosting servers too. The newest member to the dedicated hosting plan family is the new i7 Dedicated hosting plan.
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Powered by Lunarpages Contest Winner!
Last month, in an effort to give back to our great community, Lunarpages decided to give away a free year of web hosting. With over 200+ people adding the spiffy “Powered by Lunarpages” banners to their own web site – we could only pick one person to get the prize. The web site that is winning the free year of web hosting is saxamo.com. On behalf of the entire Lunarpages crew I want to congratulate them on the win, and thank everybody else for spreading the word. Keep an eye out for even greater Lunarpages contest, surprises and deals coming soon!
That is it for this month’s roundup of news, web hosting deals offer and more.