Archive for the ‘General stuff’ Category

IE? Firefox? Safari? Google? Opera? Today, Microsoft rolls out its ‘browser choice’ ballot, asking European Union citizens to choose their preferred web browser from a choice of up to 12 surfing tools on Windows-based computers.

This means that millions of people who have never really thought about which browser to use will now be asked to make a choice. Whilst this sounds like music to my ears, I’m still at a loss as to whether it’ll change the “browser war” as we currently know it.
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Christmas Competition Winners:

A big CONGRATULATIONS to all our Christmas Competition winners who were notified last month. The following winners have claimed their prizes:

1^st Prize went to Lorraine Donald who won £250 worth of vouchers for an experience day from Tellallmyfriends!

2^nd Prize went to Jack Hatt who won £100 worth of vouchers from Tellallmyfriends!

3^rd Prize went to Kimberly Stone who won 1 year of UK2 Home Web Hosting!

We hope you enjoy your fantastic prizes!

There were a total of three 2^nd prizes and four 3^rd prizes, so if you received an email to say that you’re a winner and have not yet claimed your prize be sure to reply to us.

UK2 Website Awards

We have recently introduced a fantastic new Website Awards program to find business and individuals who are the going the extra mile to provide the best for their users. Each month we will select Gold, Silver and Bronze winner for three different categories. Currently we are selecting awards for the following categories:

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Are you passionate as we are about web hosting, IT, or the internet in general? Do you love writing, and have an idea for an article which you’ll like to share with thousands of visitors to UK2? If you’ve answered yes to both questions, then here’s your chance!

Send your article to uk2guestblogger@uk2.net, and if we love it, we’ll publish it and even add a backlink to your website!

You’ll not only get the chance to share your expertise, but you could also be exposing your business / website to a large number of potential customers and visitors.

Email your article now, and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

About the author:
Steve Shaw is an article marketing expert and founder of the popular article distribution service SubmitYourArticle.com used by thousands of business owners. Discover how to use the power of article marketing to reach thousands of potential prospects for your website - download a powerful free report on successful article marketing from SubmitYourArticle.com

10 Time-Saving Tips for Article Marketing Newbie’s

Are you new to Article Marketing? I know how overwhelming it can be when you’re just learning how to market your website, and you hear all sorts of SEO jargon being thrown around and talk about stats, traffic and keywords. It can be intimidating!
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With 200,000 people feared dead, 250,000 injured, and 1.5 million homeless, it couldn’t be clearer that the Haitians need our help, and urgently too.

UK2 has joined up with other hosting companies such as Rackspace, Go Grid and The Planet to do our part to help in the relief effort by launching a new website – HostingforHaiti.com. In partnership with the American Red Cross, we aim to provide support which may include mobilising relief workers, sending relief supplies, and providing financial resources for recovery.

With the combined effort of customers and employees of all the hosting companies involved, we are optimistic that we can make a difference. And you can too. There is no amount too small, afterall little drops of water makes a mighty ocean.

Here’s how you can help:

1) Donate to the International Response Fund. 100% of the funds will go to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development fund.

2) Spread the word. Add http://www.hostingforhaiti.com to your blog, twitter, facebook, and anywhere else you can think of.

3) Ask Others to Donate. Together we can make a difference.

Thank you.

Setting goals at the start of a new year is the norm for quite a lot of people, but as a sole trader or small business owner it is easy to continue business as usual without pausing to review the previous year and set new targets for the year ahead.

Whilst this might work for some people, I personally think it’s definitely worth the time and effort to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write out what you aim to achieve in the New Year. Not only will this give you a focus throughout the year, but you can always check back every quarter or every month to make sure you’re in tune with your master plan.
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Christmas is just round the corner, and very soon we’ll be opening presents and sitting down to roast turkey and all the trimmings! We will like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at UK2.

The UK2 office will be closed on the following days:

24th December (Christmas Eve) - Closed from 12:30pm
25th December (Christmas Day) - Closed all hours
26th December (Boxing Day) - Closed all hours
27th December - Closed all hours
28th December - Closed all hours
1st January (New Year’s Day) - Closed all hours

But don’t forget, tickets can still be submitted at all times via our online ticket system.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Hi guys,

It’s been like a few weeks since I did my Search Marketing blog post and I would have loved to be back earlier with my post on Social Media Marketing, but unfortunately I have been very busy with work. Anyway I’m back now so let’s get down with some Social stuff!

If you haven’t read my previous posts, you might want to check them out. There’s one on Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and Search Marketing.

2. Social Media Marketing

Over the past few years, social media marketing has grown to become a familiar and a somewhat vaguely understood term in the marketing industry. With Facebook boasting over 300 million users, and presidential campaigns going onto Twitter, it is understandable that marketers want to get a share of the pie, and somehow monetize this ever growing media.
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Hey everyone,

It’s Monday again, the weather’s looking miserable and the weekend’s four days away but hey you’ve got my Search Marketing blog post to look forward to! What more can you ask for.

If you’re just joining in for the first time, check out my previous posts on Email Marketing and Affiliate Marketing

Right let’s get down to some Search Marketing.

3. Search Marketing

It’s quite amazing that Google launched just over 10 years ago now accounts for a whopping 87% of searches on the internet in the UK and 68% in the US. Internet users are increasingly using search engines like Google, Yahoo, and the newly launched Bing to search for information, products and even companies online. I’ll have to admit that I’m one of those people that enter company names in Google to find their website, I simply can’t be asked to remember the website URL’s of all the companies I use regularly.

As a company, and even more important as a small business, ranking up on search engines is very important (and I stress the ‘very’). Your potential customers are looking for the products or service you offer online using search engines, and if you are not on the first few pages (I never go past page 5) of their search engine results page (SERP), you might as well kiss goodbye to getting clicked on.

Search Marketing is simply ways or strategies you can use to increase your website’s visibility and ranking on SERP.
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