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Volume 4.4 Issue 1

AH! News
ArisHost ISP Reseller Program Launched

AH! Trends
Marketing your Site

Link Up!
www.scrubtheweb.com

Our Site!
www.pabloprada.com

AH! Relief
April Fool's Day pranks for programmers!!!

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ArisHost NewsAH! News

ArisHost ISP Reseller Program Launched

ArisHost officially launches its latest project-the ArisHost Internet Service Provider (ISP) Reseller Program. The program allows those with ArisHost accounts to resell Internet connection services at their own rate. ArisHost will give ISP accounts to its resellers for only $6.25 a month. They just need to pay a one-time setup fee of $25, and sell at least 4 ISP accounts per month. ISP accounts are sold in bulks of 4 only. Interested clients need to contact ArisHost at support@arishost.com.

Company officials are excited about the new program. As an officer puts it, "All our efforts are directed to providing the best web-related services for ArisHost clients. And regarding ISP Reseller, we're just very pleased to have been able to give them something totally new. That's what ArisHost is really about: innovation for our customers."

Details of the ArisHost ISP Reseller Program are at the ISP Reseller page.

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ArisHost TrendsAH! Trends

Marketing your Site

  1. Meta(morphosis) Tags

Meta tags are useful in turning your site into one that can easily be picked up by search engines. They also give web sites, shall we say, that distinct personality. Meta tags let searchers preview what sites have to offer. These codes serve as "flares" so that search engines readily index web sites.

Here's what a meta tag looks like: . There are several types of meta tags but the ones most useful to our discussion are the DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS tags. Description tags, as the name implies, describe your web site. Say you have a site called Autofreak.com, which is about car collecting. You can put in a description meta tag like, . This description can then be seen when your site is indexed by a search engine:

Autofreak.com
A site for dedicated car collectors all over the world

Easy enough, right? But how do you get effectively indexed? This is where keywords meta tags come in. Search engines use spiders or crawlers which prowl the web looking to pick up content related to a search. A keyword meta tag is a list of key words related to your web site. Here's what you might use for Autofreak.com,

References:

Phil Bradley
www.philb.com

Amy Cowen
builder.cnet.com

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ArisHost LinkUp!Link Up!

www.scrubtheweb.com

A good find for web developers who want maximum visibility for their sites. Of particular interest are the Meta tag Analyzer, Meta tag Builder and Easy Submit--programs they claim to be suited to webmasters' needs. Scrubtheweb also offers some web tools designed to increase traffic to web sites. A big plus is the easy navigation and straightforward layout. Check it out.

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ArisHost LinkUp!Our Site!

The ArisHost site of the week: www.pabloprada.com<

It's always amazing how art can tell so much about a person. That's the general feeling one gets when they view a site, such as pabloprada.com. This graphic design website seems so personal that way, with graphics and artwork that date back from school (the era of MS Paint 3.1) and university days, to work-related outputs that stay true to the artist's style. Of course, aside from curiosity of the personal, pabloprada.com also offers a visually arresting feast. Kudos to Pablo Prada!

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ArisHost LinkUp!AH! Relief

In keeping with tradition... AH! gives you... off the web...

April Fool's Day pranks for programmers!!!

  1. Three words: electric mouse buzzer.
  2. Tell them that "everyone knows Star Trek transporter technology is bogus."
  3. 10 GOTO 10
  4. Swap their monitor for a large cardboard box with handpuppets. Watch the fur fly!
  5. Intercept their daily Top 10 List, then remove #8 and re-insert it between #5 and #6.
  6. Special announcement: "Forget Java -- Starting immediately, all coding will be done in COBOL."
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Question of the Week
Is there anything wrong with putting the names of other web sites in my meta tags?

-- Ritchie R.
Oakland, CA

Aristia Says
Unless you want a lawsuit filed against you, I wouldn't recommend it. Though it is quite tempting to do so, as queries meant for the competition can be directed to you, passing yourself off as another business is generally considered illegal. Why not just focus on effectively marketing your products? This will do you more good in the long run anyway. Thanks Rich.

A Tip from Aristia
Meta tags are all the more useful for web pages that, for one reason or another, do not have much text. These are web sites that have tons of graphics, and the like. If you own such a site, the proper use of meta tags will help you define content and better present your page on the web. Happy tagging!!

 

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