Search engine optimization is all the rage everywhere you look, and for good reason when traffic equals sales. But optimizing a site for search engines is harder than it sounds, especially if you’re not ready to spend hours and hours learning about how to do it right. Over the past several months, we’ve been asked by clients over and over again how they should configure their hosting to make the most of the search engines. Then, suddenly, it occurred to us: why not set up a hosting plan that is already optimized? So we did.

Today, I am happy to announce SEO Hosting from TurnKey Internet!
Now our clients don’t have to wade through the mountains of conflicting information to get an indexed website with decent traffic. You don’t need to know anything at all about SEO to make the most of these hosting plans. Everything is automated and ready to go from the second you gain access to your account. In addition to a boatload of features which I will get into below, your sites will be hosted on our lightning fast Dell Poweredge R410 servers with 8+ cpu’s and raid 10 disk protection, hosted from our tier-1 New York datacenter. If you don’t know what any of that means, don’t worry: it’s good!

Those days of slaving over tutorials are in the past!
We’ve configured our SEO servers to allow clients to take complete control over their portfolio of websites, while easily managing everything from one location. You will access your account via cPanel, and will have full WHM (web host manager) access. This means you can create an unlimited number of accounts, domain names and web sites each with their own dedicated IP address. This is the key to great SEO!

Dedicated IP Addresses
Search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo, index sites on dedicated IP addresses as unique properties. This is very important for SEO. It is easy and cheap to set up hundreds of websites on the same IP, and to link them all to each other to try and build up some SEO juice. The search engine hive minds know all about this strategy and, if they weighted those sites that “live” in the same neighborhood (same IP’s) the same as sites on unique IP’s, they’d be sending traffic straight to the people trying to game the system. By privileging unique IP’s, search engines are trying to ensure that sites are naturally indexed, and that that indexing is a result of unique sites hosted by unique people.

For businesses, this is not good news. Building links is one of the most popular and effective methods for driving traffic and, until now, it has been necessary to buy several different expensive hosting accounts with different IP’s to get the proper indexing. Now, that is a thing of the past with TurnKey Internet’s SEO hosting package! We provide unique IP’s all under the same hosting account, so you can set up many different sites that all get indexed as unique properties. This will save you immense amounts of time, effort and money, while ensuring that your sites get privileged by the engines. And, as I mentioned above, you can manage all of these properties from one easy location.

Many Class-C IP Ranges
Not only do you get many different IP addresses with TurnKey SEO Hosting, those addresses are spread over many different class-c blocks. This means that, even if the search engines were to start recognizing IP’s on the same block as “living” in the same neighborhood, your sites would still keep their unique status because they are on different blocks. In the SEO game, so much rests on the whim of the search engines. They can change the rules as they go, and we all have to race to keep up. Keeping your IP’s on separate class-c blocks pre-empts the possibility that the search engines will recognize this sort of SEO hosting and penalize it, protecting you and your properties from the whim of Matt Cutts and his cohorts.

Additional Advanced Web Hosting Features
First and foremost, TurnKey Internet is a web hosting company. We take pride in what we do and in the features and services we offer. Our SEO hosting packages are no different from our other hosting packages in this regard. With each account we offer Fantastico, Softaculous, WHMXtra, RVSiteBuilder Pro, and R1Soft’s continuous data protection backups. These are all built right into your cPanel controls, so you can implement any and all of them as you see fit. We see this SEO hosting package as everything we already have and more.

To learn more about our SEO Hosting packages, visit: http://turnkeyinternet.net/seo-hosting

Many of us make resolutions at the new year, but how many of us really stick with them? I spend a lot of time psyching myself up to go the gym more, but it usually takes about a month for me to fall right back in to my old routine. The schedule usually goes something like this:

Gym Week 1) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday
Gym Week 2) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
Gym Week 3) Tuesday, Friday
Gym Week 4) Tuesday

I’m not a failure, thank you very much. In fact, I’m a very driven person. I think my main problem is that I don’t pace myself and I’m not patient. As a group, entrepreneurs don’t tend to be a patient lot. We want to see results and we want them now. Unfortunately, when we don’t see them right away, we may move on to something else, thinking our current plan is not working. Much of the time though, it would have worked, if we’d just stuck with it.

The Nature of Habits
Habits take time to form. To return to my previous example, sports medicine doctors say it takes about 21 days to form an exercising habit. That’s how long it takes for your body to adjust to the increased activity and start producing endorphins, the chemical behind the runner’s high. Once you have those endorphins flowing, you actually look forward to the workout because your body craves the chemicals. That is the point where the chore becomes the habit. In business, this length of time varies tremendously with the nature of the project, but the same principle applies. You start with a business plan. Let’s say that plan involves SEO of your site and building backlinks to drive traffic. It may take weeks before you make that first sale. Then it may take more weeks before you make the second sale. Eventually, however, that traffic will net you more and more sales, word of mouth will bring you more traffic, and your business will be taking off. At that point the profit will be motivating you to keep going, and the chore will become a habit.

How do you form a habit without burning out?
Pace yourself. Develop a business plan that involves a series of manageable tasks you perform each day. Don’t get too ambitious right at the beginning. Don’t set gigantic goals for yourself—work sale to sale. For each sale you make, study how it happened. Where did the traffic come from? How can you get more traffic from that place? If you have to keep several projects going at once to stay interested, that’s fine, but be sure to tend to each one each day. Slow and steady wins the race for a reason.

Daily Achievement
With small goals, you can achieve something tangible each day. This small motivation will keep you moving forward without feeling discouraged. Small steps also give you the opportunity to fine tune your process as you work. There is no sure thing in business, and having the flexibility to tweak things to respond to what works will make your business versatile and market relevant.

I would like to welcome all HostPC customers to TurnKey Internet! Welcome!

If you are not yet aware, as of the beginning of this month, TurnKey Internet is now the proud owner of HostPC, a web hosting provider with a 12-year track record of providing hosting to small and medium-sized businesses. If you are a TurnKey customer, all this acquisition means for you is that we will be expanding the TurnKey brand, growing our company to better serve you with the best possible products and service. If you are a HostPC customer, this acquisition means improved performance across the board along with access to a wide range of new products including VPS servers, dedicated servers, cPanel, 24 x 7 support, R1soft continuous data protection backups, Softaculous auto installer and all of our software-as-a-service solutions for growing your business.

A word from Joseph Mack, former CEO of HostPC:
“HostPC has been a leader in the web hosting industry, and remains the largest hosting provider offering DirectAdmin web hosting control panel. HostPC has trusted its network and server infrastructure to TurnKey Internet for years. TurnKey Internet presented a perfect fit to take HostPC to the next level.”

A word from Adam Wills, President and CEO of TurnKey Internet and HostPC:
“Mr. Mack has done a great job over the years, and we’re thrilled to be able to bring HostPC into the TurnKey Internet family. HostPC web servers are already housed in our New York Datacenter, so clients will not need to make any changes going forward and will enjoy the new performance and features at no additional cost.”

It has been about a week since we started serving HostPC clients, and things have gone quite smoothly. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, suggestions or comments.

If you would like to learn more about HostPC, visit the website: http://hostpc.com.

You can also read our press release about the acquisition here: http://www.turnkeyinternet.net/company/HOSTPCPR.pdf

Congratulations! You made it through 2010, a tough year for business. Our mission is to help businesses grow, and that has been harder over the past few years than ever before, as more and more people are out of work, and the sluggish economy keeps them from bouncing back. But there are still people out there doing well, and they are doing well because they are innovators and because they run their businesses smart. When economic times are tough, making the most of what you have becomes vitally important.
That is why we spent 2010 developing new tools for our clients so they can better serve theirs.

So far in 2011, we have seen the continued growth of our software-as-a-service products. These products are affordable, ready-to-use business growth tools that many of our clients have quickly and seamlessly incorporated into their day-to-day business operations. While there are many companies out there that offer a single business solution, we provide all of these tools in one place. It is our belief that our clients prefer to get everything they need at once–hosting, newsletter, backups, mail, conferencing, and more–for one low monthly price. Not only is this convenient, it streamlines business operations and saves considerable time and money. Each of our business solutions is a top-notch product that can compete and win in it’s niche. Together, our products provide a comprehensive tool box for the business entrepreneur.

We continue to believe in the ingenuity and perseverance of small business owners—the life blood of our economy. As a business serving small businesses, we are always interested to hear about the unique challenges facing you as you continue to grow in 2011. The more we know about you, the better able we will be to develop new products and services tailored to what you need most.

We look forward to helping you grow your business in 2011.

Learn more about our business bundle: http://www.turnkeyinternet.net/bundle/