Ecommerce web hosting…..for your virtual store front

With gazillions of web hosting providers already on the Web each saying ‘Me Too’, you need to be careful with your decision since you cannot resort to age old ‘trial & error’ approach as it can pull down your online store in minutes. Don’t rush into any decision of choosing Ecommerce web hosting solution!

Ecommerce business involves purchase and sale of products on electronic systems or computer networks. Hence, the selection of Ecommerce web hosting provider must be done only after you have cross checked the below listed key elements.

Reliability & Speed

The reliability of server holds great significance since your potential customers can get horrified at the mere thought of making online payments & your website going down. As a result, they can skip your online store & shop somewhere else. At LimeDomains, we make sure that if any contingency situation arises & one server goes down, there is another one to take over and suffice for your website needs effectively.

Compatibility with existing hardware & software

Setting up an ecommerce store is not a child’s game. So, you must try to keep it as simple as possible for your potential customers. Every component, be it a payment gateway or a shopping cart, that you integrate through the ecommerce solution provided by your web host must have adequate compatibility with your current hardware and software components.

Multiple Payment Systems

In our day-to-day busy lives, consumers prefer to shop and make payments online through different payment modes such as credit cards, PayPal etc. If you plan to set up an ecommerce store, make sure that the ecommerce solution offered by your provider supports varied payment options so that your store can address the demands of a wide range of customers across the world. This will optimize your profits to a greater extent. LimeDomains supports multiple payment modes so you can accept payments made by your customers via any means.

APIs

Management of finances and inventories of your online store is a bit tedious task, which can be dealt conveniently provided your web host gives you an appropriate & flexible ecommerce solution. Developers write codes using these APIs, and it facilitates linking of ecommerce server and legacy system.

Support to Current Data

Look for an ecommerce solution that enables you to transfer data from one environment to another. This becomes significant especially in case of managing big online shops, where manual transferring of huge amounts of data from one system to another, is quite a complex and costly affair.

Shopping Cart

It’s an integral part of any ecommerce solution as it facilitates your potential customers to have a delightful browsing experience through your ecommerce store, and make purchase decisions.

Now that you have almost all the required information on what key tenets to look for while choosing an Ecommerce Hosting Solution, you can decide when to say ‘Yes’ to any hosting solution for your ecommerce store.

We, at LimeDomains, are there to help you out setting your ecommerce store on the Web using applications such as osCommerce and Zencart. We look forward to your ‘Yes’ for our Ecommerce solution.

Start monetizing your website by selling products and services online today!
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To share your thoughts with global audiences, you plan to start a WordPress blog. However with millions & millions of blogs already on the Web, your blog must contain that ‘EXTRA’ for obtaining high search engine rankings.

Search engines have great affinity for fresh content. What better than blogs? We’ve compiled some good SEO tips, which you must try out when you get started with your blog. So read on to decode the SEO secrets to apply to your blog!

• Use post title in permalink: We recommend you to integrate post title in the permalink of your blog post. A SEO-friendly permalink is one that is inclusive of the post title since it has been observed that search engines index such posts fast.

When you post a blog, a URL such as this www.myblog.com/?p=150 by default is created. To make the URL more SEO friendly, you can change the permalink settings on WordPress. Go to your WP blog dashboard then click on ‘Settings’, and then ‘Permalinks’. You can then customize your permalink like this www.myblog.com/category/postname.
Also, this link structure of your blog post will help you refer to the post in future, if you decide to migrate from WordPress to any other blogging platform. This is not possible with default permalink structure.

• Use keywords in Blog Title: Try to search keywords that your potential readers might use to spot your blog, and then use them effectively in the first 60 characters of the blog title. This would be enhancing your keyword ranking on major search engines.

• Manage page title: The Page title comprises of the most significant tags on your blog page. You must try and position these between h1 tags. It’s recommended that a page title must be brief yet inclusive of keyword.

• Use WordPress plug-ins: WordPress has a rich repository of plug-ins using which you can optimize your blog properly.

•    SEO plug-ins: WordPress has a number of SEO plug-ins such as All-in-One SEO pack, installing which you can do the required optimization such as adding titles, tags etc. and obtain higher search engine rankings for your blog.

•    Google Sitemap plug-in: When you update your blog, its URL is submitted to the Google index by Google Sitemaps, and then its visibility on Google is monitored by Google sitemap plug-in. This plug-in creates a XML sitemap for your blogs, which will help search engines to index the same.

•    Related posts plug-ins: We recommend you to use related posts plug-ins like Simple Tags as these generate deep links under each post linking to related posts within your website owing to the presence of common tags. This fetches a great number of visitors from search engines as these love internal linking of pages within your website. If anyone integrates full RSS feed in a website, the links will be directed to your pages. This increases the usability of your blog manifold thereby enabling search engine crawlers to index your previous blog posts too.

• Inbound Links From Relevant Sites: Links are an index for the page value of your blog from search engine’s point of view. Hence, link building is quite essential. It is a proven SEO technique, which gives a tremendous boost to the search engine rankings of blogs.  Social bookmarking, article submissions, press releases are some of the good link building strategies.

• Use Ping services: Search engine spiders must be informed about the blog posts that you add from time to time. How to inform them? Through Ping services such as Ping-o-Matic. This gives a remarkable boost to your SEO endeavor as when you post your blog, tracking services, blog directories & search engines get notified about your new blog post. Your blog post then gets searched & indexed in a few minutes time. The more ping services you use, the better will be your chances of getting web traffic from these sources.

• Blog often: We advise you to practice blogging frequently since search engines are always on a hunt for new content posted on the Web. Every new post added is a new entry for search engine spiders as well as readers. In order to make your blog stand out from the rest of million other blogs, add updated & keyword-rich information so that your blogs get indexed faster by search engine bots faster.

If you do not have a blog,  get started with blogging on WordPress. We, at LimeDomains, offer you one-click WordPress hosting. So, get started with your WordPress blog with a click of mouse at LimeDomains.

Do you have any more SEO tips to share with us? We look forward to your suggestions.

Gain absolute control over your website content…No more hourly fee for minor updates!

Struggling to manage your online business, devise marketing strategies and also manage the content of your website? No more! The days of website content via static HTML pages are largely a thing of the past. With so many open source CMS applications available, you can easily create your own CMS website and own a backdoor to update the content of your website for information-starved users on the Web.

Before getting started with the creation of a CMS website, let us understand-What actually a CMS is? Content Management System (CMS) is a computer application that streamlines the work flow to simultaneously handle creation, editing, reviewing, indexing and publishing varied forms of digital and electronic content.

Having highlighted the meaning of what a CMS is, let us take a journey of some of the benefits of creating a CMS website.

Powerful tool for business generation

A CMS website serves as a dynamic tool to create more business opportunities and open multiple revenue streams for you online. The changes that you make in your content are reflected immediately. So, the ever changing demands of users are also met adequately on time, and you might get lots of new business from them since they know that your website is up-to-date as per the latest industry trends. Always remember that your website is much more than a mere ‘online brochure’.

Reduced website maintenance costs

Since you can yourself manage a CMS website, you can save a lot of bucks by avoiding hiring web designers for making changes in your website. You don’t have to spend your money any more every time a web designer updates your website and incorporates a small change there. You can exercise your full control over your CMS website, and spend the save money on other core business objectives.

Means to outpace your competitors

A CMS website may equip you with the means to gain a substantial edge over your business competitors. How? Since your CMS website would be in tune with the latest, dynamic industry trends, and some of your competitors, who may not own this much-required backdoor, they may easily lose out to you in online war. Try beating them by posting irresistible special offers on your CMS website in a few seconds. By the time they formulate and execute their marketing strategies, you’re already a winner.

Freedom of posting changes

Since you possess the secure username and password to access your CMS website, you can easily update the same anytime, anywhere. No need to call a web designer for it anymore! It is accessible to you round the clock for making changes –big or small. You can update the content very easily, and also upload pictures, audios, images, videos etc. You can also customize the registration area on the home page of your website, which will intrigue users to enter their details and get registered in a few minutes. You can profit twice as much—Trust me on that one!

User-friendly and flexible way to update

A CMS website is extremely user friendly so you will not have to struggle updating the content or doing any modification there. Since it is flexible also, every change is done in just a few clicks of mouse. No need of technical expertise to operate your CMS website.

Means to kindle your customers’ interest

You can generate the interest level of your customers by presenting fresh and latest information on the home page of your website. You can post new blogs, articles, news, pictures etc. to keep them informed and interested. This may bring in both new and repeat web traffic to your website, and benefit you remarkably.

Having known the benefits of a CMS website, you must now step forward to create one. We, at LimeDomains, are ready to help you create your CMS website with applications such as Joomla, Drupal, Moodle and Nucleus.

Get started with fully featured CMS applications today!

Keeping into consideration the multiple benefits of having presence on different social media networks, every organization wishes to join the social media wave. But to intelligently utilize and come up with effective strategy, one must understand the basic essence of various social media platforms available on the web today.

Let us understand the different forms of social media networks, which will help us further explore the multiple opportunities lying in line with our core business objectives.

Web-based Social Media Marketing Platforms

These platforms bring together the like-minded people from different parts of the world having common interests. These leverage the collective power of people, who access the platforms for connecting and sharing useful information with each other. Different discussion forums and groups on these platforms can be grouped under this category.

Examples: Meetup.com, aNobii, Disaboom etc.

Content/Information-based Social Media Networks

Social media platforms contribute to 18% of total Information search market. These platforms are being used not only for making purchase decisions, but also for content discovery. They are being increasingly used as ‘core navigation and discovery tools’. These have eventually become key mediums for search on the Internet. There are scores of people seeking information and entertainment on different platforms  & getting connected with subject matter experts.

Examples: YouTube, SlideShare,  Flickr etc.

Personality-based Social Media Platforms       


With the arrival of these social media platforms in the communication picture, use of telephone as a medium has reduced considerably. We come know about the latest events in our friends’ lives through their status updates on these sites. This mode of communication is highly preferred since you come to know about the updates instantly. Questions like ‘Who’s getting engaged?’ ‘Who’s dating whom?’ ‘Who’s getting married & when?’ ‘Who got a new job?’ are answered in no time through messages, scraps etc. on these platforms, and the basic inquisitive human nature is satisfied thoroughly.

Examples: Orkut, MySpace, Facebook etc.

Reviews-based Social Media Networks

Testimonials & recommendations from acquaintances are gradually losing their shine. Reviews by third parties on neutral platforms are being preferred by individuals/businesses etc. Users wish to know what exactly is the response to your product in the market. After gaining adequate feedback & reviews from the customers who’ve had real time experiences with your business on these social media platforms, users are encouraged to make their purchase decision.

Examples: MouthShut.com, Yahoo! Answers, epinions.com etc.

Interactive Discussion Forums & Blogs

These venues have recently become the most popular portals to keep your users, friends, colleagues etc. updates about the latest subjects. The frequency of updates has increased remarkably. Any big or small event, make your acquaintances & customers know about the same through initiating discussions, participating in the same etc. Most of netizens try to stay tuned with latest blogs to update their knowledge on varied subjects.

Examples: Xanga, Open Diary, Vox etc.

With this information on varied forms of social media platforms in your kitty, you must now step forward to align your core business objectives with well-devised social media marketing strategy.

To help you put your marketing strategy into action, we at LimeDomains are all set to assist you with marketing applications such as Advanced Guestbook, Advanced Poll, Noah’s Classifieds etc.

Get started today!