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E-commerce, which hosting package do I need?

All of SIIKE HOST hosting plans are perfect e-commerce solutions.

The Business (Gold) plan is the best recommendation, as you get s shopping carts and payment gateways.

What is SSL / Secure Certificate?

What is it?

SSL and Secure Certificates provide security for your website by encrypting communications between the server and the person visiting the website.

In order to use SSL, you need to have an SSL Certificate (also known as a Secure Certificate) installed on your server, a dedicated IP address, and visitors to your website need to use a modern web browser, such as recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome.

What is it used for?

There are two main reasons why you would need an SSL Certificate.  The first and most common reason is because you want to accept credit card payments on your website.  The second reason is that you may have confidential information that you want to keep secure while it is being accessed via the web.  SSL Certificates also help to protect your passwords from being intercepted, when typed into a secure login page.

Do I need one?

If you are accepting credit card payments online via a merchant account, the credit card associations and networks require that you use SSL whenever you transmit credit card information, such as the card number, cardholder’s name, expiration date, CVV code, etc. (such as when a customer enters their credit card on your shopping cart order form or payment page).  This is an important part of making your website PCI compliant (a set of rules that must be followed in order to accept credit card payments).

How do I obtain SSL Certificate?

You may obtain the SSL Certificate from SIIKE HOST, and we will install it for you for free.

Purchasing an SSL Certificate from SIIKE HOST not only expedites the process, but requires fewer steps. (Shared Hosting SSL installations and domain verification has been automated to save you even more time.) Purchasing an SSL Certificate elsewhere requires more time because it involves some additional steps.

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In simple terms, responsive design is a web design and development technique that creates a site or system that reacts to the size of a user’s screen. Google states that the quality of your website plays a big part in your website rankings on search engine results pages. If your website isn’t responsive for mobiles and tablets you will find your bounce rate will increase, resulting in Google less likely to rank your website for mobile.

4 Advantages of having a responsive site

• Increase your reach to tablet and mobile audiences.
• Increase sales, leads and conversion rates.
• Increase your visibility in the search engines.
• increase your SEO and put you in front of the competition.

So what is a Blog anyway? I am asked every week via emails, conversation and Instant Messaging chats to define: ‘what is a blog’.
“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. It also features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites.Software that provides a method of managing your website is commonly called a CMS or “Content Management System”. Many blogging software programs are considered a specific type of CMS.

Content is the reason for any website. Retail sites feature a catalog of products. University sites contain information about their campuses, curriculum, and faculty. News sites show the latest news stories. For a personal blog, you might have a bunch of observations, or reviews. Without some sort of updated content, there is little reason to visit a website more than once

Here are 4 reasons you need to blog:

• Drive traffic to your website
• Increase your SEO/ SERP
• Position your brand as an industry leader
• Develop better customer relationships

Variations of the term blog:

• Blogging: The act of writing a post for a blog
• Blogger: A person who writes content for a blog
• Blogosphere: The online community of blogs and bloggers

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SSL Certificates, (secure socket layer) security is a must have for any online ecommerce website or any site which that wishes to accept payments. SSL certificates are a massive benefit to your website and your visiting customers. Gaining their confidence is very important and if you wish to be successful online.

What is SSL / Secure Certificate?

SSL and Secure Certificates provide security for your website by encrypting communications between the server and the person visiting the website. A SSL certificate is an online security encryption method used to keep data transferred on your site by your customers secure. In order to use SSL, you need to have an SSL Certificate (also known as a Secure Certificate) installed on your server, a dedicated IP address, and visitors to your website need to use a modern web browser, such as recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome

What is it used for?

There are two main reasons why you would need an SSL Certificate.  The first and most common reason is because you want to accept credit card payments on your website.  The second reason is that you may have confidential information that you want to keep secure while it is being accessed via the web.  SSL Certificates also help to protect your passwords from being intercepted, when typed into a secure login page.

Do I need one?

If you are accepting credit card payments online via a merchant account, the credit card associations and networks require that you use SSL whenever you transmit credit card information, such as the card number, cardholder’s name, expiration date, CVV code, etc. (such as when a customer enters their credit card on your shopping cart order form or payment page).  This is an important part of making your website PCI compliant (a set of rules that must be followed in order to accept credit card payments).

How do I obtain SSL Certificate?

You may obtain the SSL Certificate from SIIKE HOST, and we will install it for you for free.

Purchasing an SSL Certificate from SIIKE HOST not only expedites the process, but also requires fewer steps. (Shared Hosting SSL installations and domain verification has been automated to save you even more time.) Purchasing an SSL Certificate elsewhere requires more time because it involves some additional steps.

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Content is the key!

One of the most important things that you need to have on your website is good content. Unfortunately it is also one of the most neglected things.

There is simply nothing else that will improve your search engine rankings more than having unique, high quality content on your website.

Search engines are designed to display the best results to those searching for a given term. If someone searches for laptops (Just an example) the search engine scans its internal index to find what it thinks is the best site in relation to your search using a huge number of variables.

There are several factors to this such as the popularity of the website, how many other websites link to you and most of all if the content on your website closely matches what is being searching for.

A far better approach is to put up good quality content that people want to read. This will not only keep them on your site after they have found it they will also come back to your site. People who actually take the time to read what is on your site are far more likely to become customers than people who find your site and quickly leave. Constantly adding new content that is of high quality will keep people coming back to your site and allow you to build a relationship with them.

The way the search engines work is to visit your page and then they regard your website as text only. Images aren’t taken into account. If you imagine what’s left once the graphics disappear then it’s only the text that you have written.

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One of the most surprising things when you look at small businesses is how many of them don’t have a website. You would think that in this day and age everybody would know how important a website is for all businesses. Clearly that is not the case. Any business that does not have a website is missing out on one of the most powerful marketing tools available to them.

The main reason that it is important for businesses to have a website is how people are likely to find you. These days most people will go online and research products and companies before they make a purchase, if you don’t have a website you are missing out on all of this potential business. Even if people don’t buy your product online they are still likely to research it online so you have to have a website so these people can learn about your business.

7 Benefits of a Websites for Small Businesses

1. Your Own Internet identity. Your own domain name (www.yourbusiness.com) establish a strong online brand.
2. Expand Your Market & Growth Opportunity. The Internet  allows businesses to break through geographical barriers and become accessible from anywhere in the world by a potential customer that has an Internet connection. A website also serves as a great place to refer potential investors to, to show them what your company is about, what it has achieved and what it can achieve in future.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
3. Improve Your Advertising Effectively. Placing your website address on all of your promotional material will help you additional exposure and encourage the customers to first check your site for the information they are seeking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
4. Build Your Reputation & Increase Customer Service. Become or remain an expert by demonstrating knowledge and expertise in your area of work by writing blog post and articles on the site that educate visitors and help them understand your business and offering. Information request can be processed immediately via online forms and auto-responders automatically day or night.
5. Promote your  Brick  n  Mortar  Presence. Getting lost trying to find a place can be frustrating for a potential customer. You can publish what they call a  dummy map  on your website, which shows directions and landmarks graphically, and the potential customer can print it out when looking for your  Brick  n  Mortar  premises.
6. Far Cheaper and Much More Flexible Than Print Advertising. The Internet is extremely different from print advertising in that space is cheap, your advertisement is accessible for a longer period of time, the content can be changed without having to ask someone to do it for you (if you use a content management system) and you can potentially reach a wider audience.
7. Offer Convenience. It is far more convenient for a person to research a product on the Internet than it is to get in a car, drive somewhere and look for or ask someone for information on a product. Also, a potential customer won t have to judge a call centre agent to determine whether he/she has their best interests in mind, or just wants to make a sale

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