If and when you’re interested in starting an online business, there are a lot of things that you have to study first before you can rightfully expect a high return on investment.

This is especially true now that page load time matters with your search engine ranking, you need to make informed decisions.  Of course I have done a lot of research myself and recommend Host Gator or Just Host.  They are both fantastic.

I bought a large chunk of space from Host Gator and technically I can build a website and call myself “Super Duper Web Hosting” because I have exclusive login areas to help my clients.  I can say I have the “best up time” in the web, 99.9%, unbeatable service, blah blah blah, because I belong to “Host Gator”.  Guess what?  99% of people are either with Host Gator or Just Host, some just don’t know it because they think they belong to “super duper web hosting”.

I don’t want to “sell” hosting however.  I decided to do it as a service to my customers that want me to have access to their panel and monitor their bandwidth for them and not have to call Host Gator, I do that for them.  And those customers get access to a “paid” part of my membership community.

Unfortunately a lot of great material I’ve found on the internet is not allowed to be given out for “free”.  It’s required that it be paid for and/or part of a “paid” membership community, so this was a great way for me to incorporate all of those requirements and still give my customers service.

So anyway, back to choosing………

First, make sure that your company website has a user friendly interface which basically means links are visible, easily located and properly labeled and that the content provided in the website is complete, interesting, effective and grammatically correct.

There’s the matter of search engine optimization or SEO which requires you to employ a number of strategies that your company website is heard and seen by the right people.  Common search engine optimization strategies would be keyword listing, site code optimization and top search engine placement.

Optimize your plan by understanding web hosting.  No matter how great your website looks or how effective your SEO strategies are, if you don’t have the right web hosting plan, none of those would see the light of the day because your web hosting plan simply prevents them from being properly uploaded and viewed.

Web hosting is important to your plans if you want your website to have its own niche in the Internet so do read carefully what we’re about to teach you.

You have a couple of choices when it comes to web hosting – you can get it for free or you can spend for it. Naturally, it would be lovely if web hosting would be free for all of us but understand that all the needs of your company website must be met by the free web hosting plan if you want your future to look rosy.

These are key issues to address.

Are you willing to deal with advertisements that may take too much space or would have an irritable effect on your readers?  These ads are often required by free web hosting plans because it’s the only reason they can continue letting people enjoy free web hosting.

Are you “cool” with low bandwidth access and minimal web space?

If you’re not okay with the following facts I presented, then I suggest you go with a web consultant and let them handle all of your work.