Your website is up and running, search engines found you and indexed your pages, and you got your fist visitor. The question is, how many visitors you need to make money? In this video I explain, how to calculate your estimated monthly traffic to achieve your goal. I used an example of a search engine traffic (and only a search engine traffic). In real life, you will have many sources of traffic - hopefully. My intention is to illustrate how to make projections for your website success.

People love to share their opinions. The most likely audience is their friends. Social media makes it easier to share opinions with your friends. People love to share their opinions (reviews) about things they buy. Surprisingly, most of the reviews are positive. Their friends are 3 times more likely to trust their friend's review than a professional reviewer. Can you imagine how little trust they put in an ad? To win consumer loyalty all you need to do is please your fans and hope they spread the word about your fantastic product. You need to listen to that word being spread and find ways to improve your already fantastic product to win even more fans. This is the point of any business success anyway, isn't it? Social Media just makes it so much easier for a business owner to succeed.

Moving your website to a new host is not complicated. One important thing to remember is to do it all at once. If you let the process linger, the old site will not match new one anymore. For a small site, allocate about 3 hours of uninterrupted time and get going. Here is your checklist.

Step 1: Prepare you old site for transfer

1. Sign up for a hosting plan from the new host. Make sure that the plan matches your old plan: if you hosted your site on Linux, sign up for a Linux plan. Be prepared for your old and new hosting to overlap for a month.
2. Use FTP program (Filezilla, for example) to log into your old account. Your old host should have sent you a username and password when you registered. If you do not remember your FTP login information, create a new FTP user through the old host's site.
3. Find the folder with your website files and copy the whole folder onto your computer to a new folder. Let's name it My Site.
4. Go the database manager (PHP Admin, most likely) through you old host's web interface and export your website database(s) in zip format.

With internet rapidly growing and most companies realizing the power of internet presence, we are questioning SEO once more. Should all of us optimize for the search engines? Is it really important to fine-tune your website if everyone knows who you are? You are already a trusted authority and people flock to your website, should you stop optimization? What are the reasons NOT to optimize for search engines?

Nate Moller raised this question in his blog post Is There Ever an End to SEO? He asked the following question of authorities in the field as well as his readers:
At some point can’t we just STOP the SEO consulting and rely on word of mouth and viral marketing to keep us in the top of the SERP’s?

The answers are very thought provoking. Read the post to see what the experts are saying.

There are hundreds of hosting services that will host your website for a fee. Selecting a website hosting service (ISP) depends on your business needs. Ask yourself the following questions: