It hasn’t been more than a few weeks since our last mention in business week, but it seems we’ve made it on there again! I actually completely missed it and want to thank blackhawk5193 and chickenmeister from our webmaster forum for pointing out the article. T35 Hosting is prominently mentioned in the “best tech tools” section of the list. Although the article itself is short, it does mention our unlimited space and bandwidth which is something no competitor has been able to match for over a decade! I also want to point out that we are the only web hosting company (free or otherwise) mentioned in the entire best web freebies listing.

You can check it out for yourself by following the following link and clicking the 4th icon on the bottom left (the pink keyboard).

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/11/1121_freestuff/index_01.htm

It hasn’t been more than a few weeks since our last mention in business week, but it seems we’ve made it on there again! I actually completely missed it and want to thank blackhawk5193 and chickenmeister from our webmaster forum for pointing out the article. T35 Hosting is prominently mentioned in the “best tech tools” [...]

After spending countless hours researching and trying out SEO techniques, I decided it might be a good idea to share some of the experiments with everyone else. For this specific test, I wanted to know if changing a site title would have an impact on the search engine rankings. Although most SEO experts agreed that a good title would increase your CTR once in the listings, very few were confident in how big of an impact it would make on the rankings themselves.

Most importantly, I was trying to find out if putting your keyword first (instead of your site title) would make a difference. For example: Is “T35 Hosting – Free Web Hosting” worse than “Free Web Hosting – T35 Hosting”.

Although no experiment with search engines is ever perfect, I tried to put in some controls and changed nothing except the title for an entire 2 weeks. In addition I used two search engines (Google and Yahoo) for this experiment.

Yahoo with old title:

Rank #11

Yahoo with new title:

Rank #10

Google with old title:

Rank #90

Google with new title:

Rank #86

Surprisingly, the new title increased the search engine rankings (although only by a little) on both Google and Yahoo! Although I still think it’s better to have your site name first (for usability), the search engines apparently prefer your keyword first. In addition, click through rate on my listings also went up! There you have it folks — titles do make a difference. Although I don’t think a title will make or break your rankings, it’s a contributing factor (albeit a small one) on both Google and Yahoo.

After spending countless hours researching and trying out SEO techniques, I decided it might be a good idea to share some of the experiments with everyone else. For this specific test, I wanted to know if changing a site title would have an impact on the search engine rankings. Although most SEO experts agreed that [...]

In the spirit of adding more transparency to our company we have added a new “member count” at the top of all T35 Hosting pages.

The count is automatically updated every 5 minutes in real time, so go ahead and check it out! We are hoping it will add more visibility and transparency to our member base while at the same time letting customers track our corporate progress! Plus, we will be giving out prizes to the 500 thousandths member, 600 thousandths member, etc… Our current trend is about 700 new sign ups each day!

In the spirit of adding more transparency to our company we have added a new “member count” at the top of all T35 Hosting pages. The count is automatically updated every 5 minutes in real time, so go ahead and check it out! We are hoping it will add more visibility and transparency to our [...]

Netcraft recently released their October statistics and the results are startling. Apache now has less then a 10% lead on Microsoft’s IIS — the smallest gap between the two since IIS was launched in 1996! From my personal experience, I was always under the impression that Apache was the dominant platform for serving content on the internet. Microsoft’s IIS similarly to it’s operating system, was always plagued by security and instability problems . It’s one thing to get a blue-screen on your personal computer, but imagine getting one on a server hosting millions of websites?

Never the less, Microsoft has apparently been able to not only reverse the market share loss, but attain a huge gain over the last few months. To me this seems to be the result the new Vista roll out and a greater focus on security. Poking around the new IIS I also noticed the integrated features and improved focus on web 2.0. In fact, it seemed extremly easy to setup a blog service and other social network applications with the new version.

A quick check on server statistics accross the ‘net confirmed my view: The majority of blog’s and web 2.0 sites now run IIS! Based on the way things are going, Microsoft’s IIS is set to become the dominant technology for serving content on the internet within 6-12months. Sounds far fetched? Check out the netcraft chart below:

Apache — 68,155,320 — 47.73%
Microsoft — 53,017,735 — 37.13%
Google — 7,763,516 — 5.44%
Sun — 2,262,019 — 1.58%
lighttpd — 1,541,779 — 1.08%

Netcraft recently released their October statistics and the results are startling. Apache now has less then a 10% lead on Microsoft’s IIS — the smallest gap between the two since IIS was launched in 1996! From my personal experience, I was always under the impression that Apache was the dominant platform for serving content on [...]