At LetsHost we’re always looking to improve the services and features we offer our customer base. Recently, we’ve had a lot of interest in an affiliate program, where a customer refers a colleague or a friend and earns a percentage of the purchase they make. Because word of mouth and loyal customers play a large [...]

What are SSL certs?
SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer.” Secure Sockets Layer is a protocol designed to enable applications to transmit information between each other securely. SSL is the most widely deployed security protocol used today. In today’s Internet focused world, we typically see SSL in use when a web browser needs to securely connect [...]

There is so much talk about Facebook these days, with more and more people signing up each day, but it is often considered to be nothing more than a fun way to chat to your friends and share some photos. If you are of this opinion, you would be wrong. Sure, it is a fun [...]

Internet advertising, also known as online advertising or web advertising may be one of the most effective advertising methods used, as it provides the ability to target specific markets while they are surfing the Internet.
However, the effectiveness of an advertising campaign is only as good as the ads.
A powerful ad is one of the most [...]

With the explosion of dedicated video sites like youtube.com and video.google.com, and the increased availability of high speed internet, including video on your website is becoming more and more attractive. Whether you are simply sharing quick videos of the holiday you were on recently, or including a sales pitch on your business website, video as [...]

By choosing to register a .ie domain over other domains you are choosing Irish! When you click on a .ie domain you know that it can be trusted and more importantly that it is an Irish website you are logging on to, as all applications to the IEDR (Irish Domain Registry) must show a real [...]

We’ve heard it time and time again… how web success is defined by traffic. The more “hits” your website gets, the more successful it is, right?
It’s a common misconception that there’s a direct correlation between the number of unique visitors or page views a website gets and how successful that site is. The thing underlying, [...]

WordPress has become one of, if not, the most popular pieces of software for bloggers the world over. Its simple design has given millions of people the ability to create a blogging site that is easily customisable. Different themes and plugins freely downloadable from the Internet have enabled anyone with little to no coding experience [...]

At the end of 2007 global online population statistics put the number of internet users worldwide at about 1.3 billion. By 31 December 2009, there were 1.8 billion people across the globe with regular access to the internet.
That’s an additional half-a-billion people, and means that today more than a quarter of [...]

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When you sit down to write content for your website, who exactly are you writing the content for?
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of writing your web content to please yourself as a business owner – or if you work for a larger company, to please your boss, [...]