1. What is Hosting?

2. What is Domain Name Registration?

3. What is Flash?

4. What is Search Engine Submisson?

5. What is Search Engine Optimisation?

"These days consumers expect businesses that are serious about doing business to be on the web.

A website is a convenient, often interactive source of product information, business hours, contact information and more. A website demonstrates credibility and builds trust between you and your prospective customers."

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1. What is Hosting?

While web sites are designed and developed on a single computer, they must be transferred to a server, or host, so that they are available to the rest of the world over the Internet.

A host is simply a computer that has a constant, high speed connection to the Internet. Hosting companies rent space on these machines. Depending on your needs, a hosting plan for your web site can cost anywhere between £10 and £200 per month.

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2. What is Domain name registration?

On the Internet, a domain is a network address. This is similar to your home's address used by the postal system. The postman can deliver our mail because we have a unique address such as15 Hope Street, Aberdeen. On the Web, each web site has its own unique address also, so that Web servers can find it.

There can only be one of any Domain name in the world. If www.yourbusinessname.com is already registered by another company, then you must find a name that is not yet registered.

A Domain name has to be officially registered and renewed each year.

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3. What is Flash?

Flash is a graphics animation program, written and marketed by Macromedia, that uses vector graphics. The resulting files, sometimes called "flash files", may appear in a web page to view in a web browser, or standalone Flash players may "play" them. Flash files occur most commonly in animated advertisements on web pages and rich-media web sites.

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4. What is search engine submission?

The act of submitting specific URLs or web addresses to popular search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo! to ensure the web site page gets found and indexed. So that users and customers can find your website on the internet.

It should be noted that it can take up to three months for domain names to become listed in the databases of search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

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5. What is search engine optimisation?

Means ensuring that your web site pages are accessible to search engines and focused in ways that help improve the chances they will be found. Search engines are one of the primary ways that Internet users find web sites. That's why a web site with a good search engine listing may see a dramatic increase in traffic. Everyone wants that good listing.

Unfortunately, many web sites appear poorly in search engine rankings, or may not be listed at all, because they fail to consider how search engines work. Knowledge of "search engine optimisation" can help many of these web sites.

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