According to our 2006 AllBusiness survey on Web hosting, the largest number of AllBusiness readers (31 percent) who have a Web site are hosting it at Yahoo! Small Business Web hosting services. In second place is the category of “Other” provider (19 percent), while third place (18 percent) goes to in-house hosting. “Local” ISP providers ranked fourth (11 percent), followed by national providers... 

“Ask an Expert” is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, we address a question about ranking on search engines for major keywords. It comes from Jeramie Westbay, owner operator for Crazy Ed’s Roadkill, an online store that sells beef jerky. For the answer, we turn to Andrew Hazen, the founder and CEO of Prime Visibility, a Long Island,... 

Internet Marketing and Promotion: Website Optimization. This lesson looks at ways of increasing the popularity of your website by looking at the internal optimization of the website itself. It considers many important ways of building your traffic, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) approaches. Build your traffic. Content is king. Write good quality content that visitors value and that keeps them coming...