It’s coming to a age where having a website is necessary for all business owners. But who has time to update all the new products and business changes on a daily basis? The reality is the majority of business owners update their web page every 6-12 months. Usually this consists of something they think will improve the image of the website. The part that’s commonly overlooked is that updating your website pages and text at least once a month has huge benefits far beyond any benefit of a slight image change.

By updating the web page once a month it adds credibility with customers and even more credibility with the internet process (Search engines and other websites). Search engines will always list a website that is active over stale, plain, and low text (content) websites. The differance between adding even a little more text each month is huge for how search engines will consider your website in the SE ranking system.

Of course adding jiberrish will not help much, but adding good text based stories, information, and by building more pages you WILL make a huge differance. With that said here is the top 5 reasons to update your website atleast once a month:

1. Search Engines - They see changed and content rich web pages as a active website and will always rank this over a stale website.

2. Other Websites - The internet starves for new original information and by adding it to your website regularly you will have a much better chance to get free one way links to your website.

3. Customers - When customers see a website that is updated and has lots of perdinant information they are more likely to save the page to there favorites and come back!

4. Personal Investment - I’m not big on tricking myself but the more you add to your website and see actual results the more fun it will be to add more content and watch your website grow.

5. Website Quality - Eventually you will notice errors or little ways to clean up and make the website more usable when your actively updating it.

The best way to stay active is to add a blog to your website, www.wordpress.com is a search engine friendly and is super easy for anyone to use. Most web hosts like www.dwhs.net has it available for free by the push of a button. For example www.ocfocus.com You can see how the main website is the front line for the business and just adding a link on the bottom of each page to your blog you can have a easily updatability website that the search engines and your customers will love.

The other option is to have a non-static website, you can so this with blog software or any CMS (content management system) www.drupal.com is a good option for this but might require slightly higher hosting fees to run it.

Written by Charles Yarbrough for www.marketingspot.com
www.charlesyarbrough.com

1/18/2008
Forum Black List gets a needed update ( www.forumblacklist.com ) Since the launch in 2006 www.forumblacklist.com has not been updated. The project ran by President and individual webmaster Charles Yarbrough ( www.charlesyarbrough.com )
was seem to be left aside until 1/17/2008 where the size of the blacklist became over 4 times it size according to the site owner. Other new features include easier deployment
into PHPBB ( www.phpbb.com ).

The site that is kind of a eye sore ( in my opinion ) is now a great defense against forum spam and will knock about 60% of all forum spammers. The only question that comes up
is that spam is an ongoing battle, so will Charles take the initiative to seek out new open ip’s used for spamming and if so will it ever truly be enough to get rid of spam.

I for one hope so and wish the project all the luck.

Good luck,

Tech News KYW
Bob Bicknell

GodTube, whose Internet viewership has soared in the four months since its debut - it already claims to be “the largest Christian Web site on the planet” - is reaching higher.

It isn’t casting aside popular videos such as the little girl reciting Psalm 23 (more than 4.8 million views) or the rap parody “Baby Got Book” (more than 625,000 views).

But the video-sharing and social-networking site is launching some higher-tech features this month that will help churches and individuals get their messages out into the world.

Chris Wyatt, chief executive officer and co-founder of GodTube, projects that those and other efforts will boost traffic and attract 5 million to 7 million unique viewers in December.

GodTube’s new Godcaster program, already tested by a few hundred churches, allows churches to stream live video of their services, sermons and testimonials over GodTube for viewing anywhere. Then the viral software lets churches take that video from GodTube and embed it in their own Web sites, said Wyatt, whose company is based in Plano, Texas.

Using its new viral video blog, individuals and churches can easily record up to 30 minutes of video directly to Web pages on GodTube, leaving video messages much like voice-mail messages for friends or a more general audience, he said.

Those services will be free at a basic level; those who want more recording time will pay a fee.

Wyatt, 38, is about one year into a four-year program to get a master’s degree in theology at Dallas Theological Seminary.

But he’s having trouble carving out time for studies because GodTube took off so quickly after its launch in August, becoming one of the fastest-growing Web sites in the United States, according to comScore, a company that measures Internet use.

Prior to starting GodTube, Wyatt spent about 10 years as a producer on daytime shows and “reality” shows for CBS and other networks, and then designed video file-sharing systems for social-networking and other purposes.

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Is there anything significant about GodTube that is being overlooked?

A lot of attention gets paid to the growth of the Web site. A quarter of a million people, approximately, have signed up to our social network, and we launched it (about two months) ago.

That’s pretty significant. Who it is, I think, is even more significant. We have about 25,000 churches that are signed up. It’s individuals and pastors.

So, really, we are acting as the infrastructure for a lot of churches right now in terms of their online video and delivering their online content.

I think that’s really important. People aren’t picking up on the fact that a good portion of the 800,000 hours of video that we have is being uploaded by churches and embedded into their church Web site or their church blog.

There’s kind of a huge church growth in that area that people really aren’t seeing. They’re more interested in the little girl in Psalm 23, but they’re not really seeing what I think is a ripple which will become a tidal wave of churches going to GodTube.

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10) Misspelling a Domain

Back in the glory days of the late 1990’s when I was working for a large Internet agency, the web designers had responsibility for the registration of domain names on behalf of clients. One particular designer had a face to face meeting with a major client, during which the client asked him to register CarTuneCentral.com (or so he thought!). The staffer did a check and was delighted to see the domain available. He made the purchase and proudly emailed the client.

An hour later his boss called him in to his office to say that he’d had a call from a very frustrated client who *actually* wanted him to register CartoonCentral.com. Needless to say the desired domain wasn’t available and the whole office dined on his mistake for months.

9) Letting the Domain Name Expire

Now what type of company would allow their domain to expire a month after site launch? A very large one, that’s who. I’ll save the company some embarrassment and won’t reveal their name but the site was offline for a total of 2 days while they scrambled to pay their registrar, sort out DNS propagation and cover their tails.

Flashing your Cyber Underpants

One of the most common web site management platforms provided by hosting companies used to store the site statistics in a common folder called /statistics/. You could password protect this folder, but the default was to leave it open to the public and so many unwary webmasters unwittingly published full traffic data for their site on the Internet, open to any person who knew where to look.

I learned this the hard way in a public forum from a member who said he had just reviewed my traffic for the previous month and was very impressed. Publishing site statistics for all the world to see is what I call flashing your cyber underpants and I haven’t let it happen again!

7) Publishing Sensitive Company Information

Quite a few companies have been guilty of doing this, including AOL, who published a search data report in 2006 that contained the private details of thousands of AOL customers. Although the report was taken offline within a few days, it had already been mirrored and distributed across the Internet. The fallout eventually led to the resignation of AOL’s Chief Technical Officer.

Although not quite as serious, an ex-client of mine once published a page that had notes on it from the Sales Manager about the best way to strong-arm a customer into purchasing a higher-ticket item. Apparently the web designer didn’t realize the hand-written post-it notes were not part of the web page copy. Duh!

6) Using an Insulting 404 Error Page

I clash with the web design team of one of my clients on a regular basis. Earlier this year, my client completely re-designed their web site and so I recommended they ask their web design team to design a custom 404 error page in case visitors navigated to a page on the old site that no longer existed.

Their web design team put up a message that read:

“404 Error. You’ve obviously typed in the wrong URL. Either that or the page you are looking for no longer exists.”

That was it! No apology for the missing page, no recommendatíon to use the navigation to find what they were looking for, just an insulting message that accuses the visitor of being an idiot. Persons viewing that page would be clicking the “back” button as fast as they could.

5) Taking a Site Offline for Maintenance

I find it fascinating that very large sites run by intelligent people still get taken offline for maintenance on a regular basis. Search engines don’t understand the “Back in 15 minutes” sign and the longer the site is down, the bigger the risk.

If search bots try and index a site while it is down, they will most likely assume the previously indexed pages have expired and drop them from the search index. This means that all your hard-earned rankings could be flushed down the toilet until search engines can successfully re-index your site. Surely a mirror site for maintenance periods isn’t that difficult to set up?

4) Buying a Dot Bíz When the Dot Com Was Available

Ok, I’m putting up my hand on this one. I’m not going to reveal the domain but yes, I registered a dot bíz domain back in 2000 when the dot com was actually available. The dot com version of my domain was bought by Yahoo a short time later and turned into a product site. Ack! My excuse is that, at the time, dot bíz sites were rumored to be the next big thing and all companies were being urged to choose them over dot coms. Ok, I was wrong!

3) Allowing a Customer Complaint to Remain on a Site for 12 Months

When I was working as a public relations consultant, I was given the responsibility of re-writing the web copy of a large real estate client. One of the areas I was asked to re-write was the welcome paragraph on the Customer Feedback page where existing customers of the estate agent chain could login and leave comments about their experience.

While writing the copy, I scanned some of the customer feedback and came across an aggressive message left 12 months earlier by an obviously unhappy customer. She had used some of the most colorful language I’ve ever seen (and some that I hadn’t) and very detailed descriptions of how she was going to take her revenge on the company for allegedly allowing a tenant to destroy her house. Nobody in charge of the web site had even noticed the comment and I still wonder how many potential customers would have been put off from using the estate agent after reading it.

2) Switching a Web Site Off for a 3 Week Christmas Vacatíon

Yes, many moons ago, an ex-client of mine decided to take her entire web site offline (without telling me!) while she was on a 3 week vacatíon over Christmas. Only a month earlier, she had paid me $5,000 to optimize it for search engines.

It had just achieved some impressive top 10 results and all the carefully optimized pages were attracting good traffic when she shut it down and replaced the entire site with a 1 page sign that said “closed until after Christmas”. I noticed the traffic and search ranking declines in her stats and was completely flabbergasted when I found the site gone. Her response when I confronted her? “Why didn’t you TELL ME this could happen?”

And the dumbest web site decision I’ve ever witnessed?

1) Promoting a Domain Name You Don’t Own:

My Alma Mater, the University of Newcastle, have spent thousands of dollars on television advertising here in Australia, marketing their new site for online post-graduate coursework: GradSchool Dot Com. There’s only one problem. The domain for this site is actually Gradschool.com.au. They don’t even own Gradschool.com!

Sadly, this glaring marketing error seems to have totally escaped them and they are happily referring to their brand as Gradschool.com on all their marketing material and throughout their .com.au domain. It’s tragic to think of all the potential students typing in Gradschool.com expecting to find the University program. I see that whoever purchased Gradschool.com has slapped up some AdSense code on it so at least somebody will reap the benefits of those thousands of advertising dollars wasted by the University.

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Mariners Church of Irvine uses its canine ministry in social situations to break the ice and bring some people to God.

The dogs were decked out in sweaters and birthday hats. They had cold snouts, soft coats and the dispositions of Job. For more than an hour on a recent Saturday, they sat beneficently as dozens of children petted them.

They are members of the canine ministry at Irvine’s Mariners Church, which organizers say may be one of a kind.

Its mission: to put people at ease and begin a process that could lead them to God.

“They are able to break down walls that we often can’t,” said Sheree King, a Mariners outreach director.

“The dogs facilitate relationships. They start a conversation” ultimately enabling church members to make their pitch.

The program began eight years ago when Paul Bogenrief, now 60, visited the church Sunday school with Sadie III, his golden retriever. Some of the small children found the dog’s presence comforting, so he started taking her there every week.

The dog ministry expanded to other places. Today, program coordinator Janene Bankson says, it consists of eight dogs, most owned by church members.

Much of the dogs’ work involves going to monthly birthday parties for poor residents at the Costa Mesa Motor Inn.

They also help with foster kids, preside over learning programs in which children are more comfortable reading to the dogs than to adults and act as canine comfort counselors at church mountain camps.

“They show unconditional love and don’t expect anything back,” said Bankson, whose 2-year-old black Labrador retriever Reyna is a ministry dog. “They are always happy and don’t see any difference between us. They bring people in.”

That certainly seemed to be happening at the motel party where, despite multicolored balloons, face-painting, cupcakes and pizza, the dogs were the centers of attention.

Attended largely by the poor families comprising the bulk of the inn’s clientele, the parties mark the birthdays of residents who can’t celebrate on their own.

But they have another purpose as well, King said; they pave the way for a walk toward the Lord. “We try to meet the families where they are,” she said.

For Jessica Eden, a 16-year-old who has lived at the motel for two years, that meant recalling a time when she had pets of her own.

“I love them,” she said of the Mariner dogs. “The little kids need to show affection, they need to pet these dogs.”

Amanda Santiago, whose 8-year-old daughter, Michelle, couldn’t leave the dogs alone, said she too appreciated the distraction.

“A lot of us are here because of hardship and can’t afford to do lots of things.”

The visit of the dog ministers, she said, “is a good thing for the kids. It gives them a bit of normalcy that we can’t provide.”

Program organizers say it’s all a soft sell.

Though they don’t discuss Jesus unless they are asked, church members know that the dogs often make people more comfortable.

“The kids will cuddle them when they’re nervous,” King said, “and when they’re scared or sad, the dogs comfort them. Residents ask us what we’re doing, and sometimes they tell their stories.”

In the ensuing talks, she said, members of the nondenominational Christian church share their faith.

Before participating in the ministry, according to Bankson, the animals are tested for temperament, obedience and health. They also are trained to stay calm.

But are the dogs Christian?

“I don’t know,” Bankson said, “but they sure show an awful lot of love. They have some of the Christian characteristics I’d like to have.”

Bogenrief agrees. “They don’t drink, smoke, dance or dress inappropriately,” he pointed out.

“The only thing they do, if given the chance, is have sex out of wedlock.” Roy Gerber, 42, says he relishes the outings with Ziba, his 4-year-old female retriever.

“Serving with my dog is awesome,” he said.

“I love serving and I love being with my dog; this way I can enjoy the two.”

He has no doubts regarding Ziba’s religion.

“If you spell dog backward,” he said, “you get God.”

I hear that there was recently a discussion on a NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) email list about virtual hosting vs. dedicated IP addresses. They were commenting on the misconception that having multiple sites hosted on the same IP address will in some way affect the PageRanks of those sites. There is no PageRank difference whatsoever between these two cases (virtual hosting vs. a dedicated IP). Someone on the email discussion already dug out this Slashdot interview from mid-2003 with Craig Silverstein, Google’s Director of Technology. I refer to question 5, in which someone asked

Why in this day and age does google continue to penalize sites that are virtual hosted? With ip addresses becoming harder to get/justify every day why does google discount the relevance of links that don’t come from a unique ip address. Please don’t just deny it, I think the Internet community deserves an explanation.

Craig’s reply was as follows:

I can’t just deny it? What are my other choices? Actually, Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses. If your ISP does virtual hosting correctly, you’ll never see a difference between the two cases. We do see a small percentage of ISPs every month that misconfigure their virtual hosting, which might account for this persistent misperception–thanks for giving me the chance to dispel a myth!

I’m happy to affirm that this statement which was true in 2003 is still true now. Links to virtually hosted domains are treated the same as links to domains on dedicated IP addresses.

REV Peter Macdonald, the minister of St George’s West Church, has only once
used his power of veto. He didn’t turn down Julian Clary, whose show Natural
Born Mincer was staged in his church. He didn’t even quail at Hank Wangfold’s
adults-only cabaret show 100% Sex Therapy, though he did draw the line, not
unreasonably, at a show purported to combine burlesque with masked Mexican wrestling.
“I was told that there would be no full-frontal nudity or midget throwing,”
he says. “That was by way of reassurance!”

This year, he faced a different kind of dilemma. Bigger Than Jesus, a questioning,
satirical look at the Son of God by Rick Miller, the man who brought us MacHomer,
was the first show proposed for St George’s West which dealt directly with Christianity.
It describes Jesus as “son of Joseph, lover of Mary Magdalene”, compared
the four Gospel writers to the Beatles, and features a last supper with Homer
Simpson, the Tin Man and Darth Vader.

Macdonald, however, watched the show on DVD and loved it. “Rather than
a problem, I really wanted it to be here. It’s a really good show, and there
is a reverence in it for ritual and the language of the liturgy. I think Christians
in the audience will respond positively to that. It’s also very funny.”

In conversation with Macdonald and Miller it becomes clear that this remarkable
acceptance of a show which questions Christian orthodoxy is part of a much bigger
debate. We are used to seeing Christians as an outraged minority seeking to
censor that which disagrees with them - the outcry against Jerry Springer: The
Opera is just one example. But where it is possible for the arts and theology
to engage, the results can be very fruitful.

Though Miller says that he “does not believe in a literal God or a literal
Son of God”, he is a long way away from God-denying atheists such as Richard
Dawkins. Bigger Than Jesus is a project close to his heart, and is as serious
as it is satirical. Raised a strict Catholic, he was playing the Son of God
in Jesus Christ Superstar when he became fascinated by the impact Jesus has
had down the ages, and shocked by what was being perpetrated in his name in
the modern world.

“Jesus is so present in everyone’s life. Whether you like it or not, you
have to have some reaction to the fact there are crosses around people’s necks,
and that the President of the United States has said candidly that he has a
special link to Jesus. All these things make you think that you cannot deny
the place of Christianity in the world, and you might as well explore it in
a serious way to try to come to terms with it.”

Audiences, it seems, agree. The show has attracted widespread popular and critical
acclaim in Canada and the United States, and is attracting good audiences in
Edinburgh. Whereas two decades ago, shows about religion on the Fringe were
considered barely relevant, world events have changed all that.

“We have the continuing troubles in the Middle-East, the Palestine-Israel
issue, Iraq, al-Qaeda,” says Macdonald. “Religion isn’t the cause
of those things, but it’s part of that complex web of issues, and people are
aware that you can’t understand these situations if you don’t understand the
religious dimension. There are generations now which have almost completely
lost touch with institutional or formal religion, and they’re being confronted
again by the whole faith issue. In [David Greig’s play] Damascus at the Traverse,
this Scotsman finds himself in Damascus, where he’s asked what faith he is:
‘Are you Christian, Muslim or Buddhist?’ That’s what a lot of people are finding:
others are able to articulate and show how important their faith is to them
and they are left wondering what their beliefs actually are.”

Bigger Than Jesus is the product of a lengthy research and study by Miller
and his Jewish director and co-writer Daniel Brooks. Although you may not realise
it, by the time you reach the final segment of the play in which Miller plays
Jesus himself, you will have heard summarised a variety of theological and philosophical
positions, from Nietzsche to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

His Jesus is a very human figure, entertaining, conversational and rather bemused
by the movement spawned in his name which has, in fact, become bigger than he
is. In his last words of advice he exhorts mankind to “love one another”
and “always lift with your legs”.

Macdonald says that many Christians will not have trouble with the fact that
Miller does not make any claim for Jesus’ divine parentage. “I think some
Christians do understand the ‘Son of God’ as an almost biological thing. Clearly
it’s not that, it’s about metaphor, it’s a way of describing a relationship
that Jesus had with the divine. But if you were to say to me: ‘Is Jesus the
Christ?’, then ‘yes’.”

“I don’t think anyone in our congregation, or any of the mainstream churches,
would have much difficulty with the portrayal you make,” he tells Miller.
“One of the things I found interesting is that because your portrayal is
really powerful, at the end you feel that Jesus is bigger than all of that stuff,
the misunderstandings, the misconceptions, the deceit that has been done in
his name. That somehow the man and his story rises above that.”

The surprise of the show is not the sharpness of its satire, but its uncanny
reverence. Loosely structured along the lines of a Catholic mass, it offers
something of a spiritual experience as well as a cerebral one. It asks more
questions than it answers, but implies that the questions themselves have some
spiritual value.

Miller jokes that he has become “the Mel Gibson of the religious Left”.
“In the same way as his movie was being promoted on church websites, this
show is embraced by a group from various Christian denominations who don’t necessarily
have anything to rally around.

“I would actually argue that there more of those than the loud voiced
fundamentalists. The religious Right, because they have answers, are very united
and they’re very adept at communicating, using technology, making their voice
heard. The religious Left can’t unite around questions. But there are many people
who are desiring of a spirituality and a connection.”

Peter Macdonald was struck by the way in which the play uses elements of story,
ritual and language to communicate the spiritual. “I think one of the reasons
why progressive Christians have responded to Bigger Than Jesus is because more
and more people can’t accept literalist understandings. They would see themselves
- as the show says - within the church of the rational mind. They don’t want
to leave their intellect in the vestibule, they want to worship as a whole person.”

He says this cuts right to the heart of why he decided to open the doors of
his church to the Fringe. Rather than retreating into a Christian ghetto, making
occasional forays out in search of converts, he wanted to engage with the contemporary
world through the arts.

“Many people would understand a lot of the Christian faith as being around
metaphor, and theatre and the arts can open that up for people. People are falling
back on the story, because it’s not really about answers, it’s about people
trying to live the story, and that’s the journey that the liturgy takes you
on. Sometimes religious belief seems to deny life, it seems to restrict and
control, but there is a side which wants to celebrate life, to encourage people
to embrace fullness of life. For me that’s what that the Christian faith is
about.”

While many churches open their buildings for Fringe performance, Macdonald’s
robust attitude is a beacon to others. Responding the decision to stage Julian
Clary, he quipped: “Other churches might not want gay bishops. We are happy
to welcome camp comedians.” And when 100% Sex Therapy was announced he
got in every newspaper by saying: “It was my hope that hosting [the show]
would provide an opportunity to show that not all Christians are narrow-minded,
puritanical and judgmental. Some of us can get our knickers off, rather than
in a twist.”

But he does admit that 100% Sex Therapy “did fill the mail bag”.
How does he deal with that? “Well, most people who write letters about
films or plays are people who haven’t seen the show, so I would suggest that
they do that, then we would have the kind of discussion that Rick and I have
just had.

“One of the things that has been fundamental in our involvement in the
Fringe is that no-one has the right not to be offended. I don’t think anyone
in the arts should begin with the premise that they must not offend anybody.
Sometimes our values, our attitudes, our beliefs need to be challenged. We need
to be offended.”

He admits that he enjoyed Bigger Than Jesus so much that one or two lines might
find their way into his sermons. “If ever I need to deliver a lecture or
teaching of any kind on the Synoptic Gospels, I’ll be borrowing some of your
ideas,” he tells Miller.

“Well,” Miller smiles, “I’ll give you a script.”

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June 18, 2007 – (www.DWHS.COM) – What might seem like a medium sized web host might have other intentions in mind. With a little over 60k domains according the CEO James Garner this is merely a top 100 host rather then a host considered to be large. But some factors like the large amount of traffic they get as shown in Alexa.com (where they are the in the top 100k most visited websites, which is virtually unheard of for a host) might be a sign of something brewing.

But James was very leery about commenting on a massive growth strategy. He specifically said keeping the growth of DWHS steady and regulated is extremely important. Quote “Our primary focus is to have a personal connection available for our customers if they want it. I know hundreds of customers names and our customers service manager Charles Yarbrough probably knows thousands. If a customer is having a issue like sales declining or a somewhat slow loading website design we want to personally help. It seems simple enough that if they become more successful and upgrade to accommodate their growth DWHS wins as well. This is the premise of DWHS and has been since we made our Web Hosting Business official in 2001. We will do whatever we can to help our customers succeed.”

I also noticed they have a 16 person staff which is very large for a 60k domain web host, in fact it’s larger then most of the top twenty hosts staff from what I have heard. So I asked James why the large staff and why are you buying up Two hosting companies in in only 4 months? Quote “One thing I noticed in the business is customers notice everything about their web host. The loading speed and reliability of the website and quality of customer service are essential in this business. A strong local staff and high quality infrastructure is a essential in this industry if you ask me. I also would like to mention most of our employees have been with DWHS for over 2 years. We are also in downtown LA for a reason, we get the best bandwidth available from the top providers at the lowest price possible anywhere. This enables us to offer the fastest most reliable networks at a great price, which in turn our customers love us for it. But realistically we bought these two hosts for there good price not because it was time to buy up hosting companies. Two good deals just came up close to each other. We have bought several hosts over the years with no timing strategy, we just wait until a good deal comes along and we jump on it.”

In conclusion It sounds to me like they have no intentions of becoming a web hosting conglomerate, I think they like how they are doing things and are growing with there clients response.

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