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WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 6!

Posted by advertolog at Tuesday ~ May 05, 2008 to SEO
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By Amy Armitage

Our 5 entries for round 6 are:

Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk

Aakon by Tomas Sramek

Lilicious by Liza Kliko

Butterfly by Mehmet Ozekinci

Moo by n252

Vote Now!

Round 6 Best WordPress Theme is...

Good luck to everyone this week!

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 5 Results

Posted by advertolog at Tuesday ~ May 05, 2008 to SEO
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By Amy Armitage

Round 5 received a high number of votes and most popular was Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada and The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson.

Our winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:

Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada

Visit our contest/submission page to submit your entry as there are still several weeks left of the contest. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008

Country Specific Hosting

Posted by advertolog at Wednesday ~ May 05, 2008 to Uncategorized, Web Hosting
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We are fortunate enough to have have UK web host blogger, Ben Bolin, share some thoughts about country specific hosting. Ben is blogging at the moment from Egypt. Thanks for being a guest blogger at Web Hosting Finds!

Why Country Specific Hosting Is Important for Marketing and E-commerce

Something not many people know when choosing a web host is the importance of choosing a host that will aid your marketing and your website’s niche. This can be very important if you are running an online store depending on the geographic region you are focusing on. So first let’s start with an explanation of why this all depends on who your site’s visitors will be.

Most internet connections are very fast but it still matters where the physical server is hosted in terms of speed. If I was starting an online store focusing on customers in Texas the site is going to server faster to people from Texas if it is in Texas. Similarly if you are building a site aimed at United Kingdom residents you don’t want the server to be in the United States or even Europe in some cases. By hosting in a location near your customer base you are speeding up their access time to the server. This might not seem like a big deal but in a number of studies the importance of a quick loading page can mean a big difference in the number of conversions. Or if you are hosting a game server ping time will obviously matter when you are shooting your next zombie.

In terms of marketing it is also important in the eyes of Google and other search engines. One of the many factors for knowing whether they should rank you in a country specific search engine such as Google.co.uk or Google.com is dependent on your IP’s location as well as your domain name ending. By using a host in the country your site is serving you are sending one more indication to Google of where you should be ranked.

We have had plenty of customers at UK2 who came to us from USA based hosting and after they started using our servers which are in the United Kingdom they found that conversions increased and they had lower shopping cart abandonment rates. Which when you are running an online store are two very key factors. This is also why we offer our customers dedicated server hosting in both the United Kingdom and USA, we want to be able to give them the best of both worlds.

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 5!

Posted by advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008 to SEO
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By Tiara Rea

Amy is in Washington this week, so she has asked me to post the round 5 entries.

Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci

Hanami by A. Mignolo

Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada

The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson

Gaia by Tomas Sramek

Vote Now!

Round 5 Best WordPress Theme is...

Visit our contest/submission page to submit your entry. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008.

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 4 Results

Posted by advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008 to SEO
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Our Finalist for Round 4 is Vectorize by Ed Canape!

This round was a bit different as we had to disqualify one contestant (please read the rules before you enter - only themes YOU create or have rights to can be submitted!) and then there were two winners! So we had some of our staff here at Lunarpages pick the winner from the two tied in first place, and the winner is Vectorize by Ed Canape. We agreed that this theme should be the clear winner this round:

Congratulations, Ed!!

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 4!

Posted by advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008 to SEO
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By Amy Armitage

The 5 themes we have chosen for round 4 are:

Dark Mood v2 by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Entropy by Paul Robinson

Fashioniesta by Ophelia Nicholson

Tree Sunset by andrej

Vectorize by Ed Canape

Round 4 Best WordPress Theme is...

To check out the prizes and rules, visit our contest/submission page. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008 so there is still time to get your theme in!