seo hosting

The best web hosting must be the cheapest, right? After all, the tenner or two that you save on hosting each month can buy you an extra round with your mates or dinner with your partner.

Wrong answer! Hosting, a very important factor in search engine optimization, must be handled with great care.

On the face of it, you’ll save by choosing to go with a cheap U.S.host, but you’ll get what you pay for: bad support and a non-Australian IP address that you could be sharing with hundreds of other websites. This amounts to sudden death for your website’s SEO strategy. Most of the world’s dodgy websites are also found on cheap hosts, and chances are high that you’ll be sharing your server or even your IP address with porn or casino sites. For Google, this kind of “spammer footprint” indicates that you are not committed to sticking around for very long. Google Australia will always assign more “trust” to websites hosted in Australia orNew Zealand.

hosting basics

When choosing your website’s hosting provider, you’ll of course be looking for certain basics: phone support (a really big deal!), at least two free email accounts (such as info@yourwebsite.com.au), and daily or weekly backups of your website, emails and database. At wds, we’ve got all of these absolute essentials covered, but we also offer SEO-ready hosting. Our hosting service alone won’t get you a higher search engine ranking. Once you start serious work to improve your page rank, however, wds hosting ensures that your website will be SEO-ready.

hosting for seo success

One effective strategy involves creating additional domains for search engine optimization purposes. If we recommend mini-site or micro-site SEO for your website, wds will provide a new Australian IP from a different Aussie or Kiwi hosting provider for each additional domain. This way, your SEO sub-sites will have more power to link to your main site since Google won’t be able to detect that these mini-sites all belong to the same person.

Clever, no? We think so too, and well worth the small amount of extra cash. To find out more about our simple but effective SEO solutions, contact us for a free quotation.