Last week, as some of you have found, we quietly launched our new updated Customer Portal.  This has taken months of work and aims to bring together all the management of the services we sell in to one single, easy to use interface.  We have ironed out a few small bugs over the past week, [...]

A sitemap is a collection of hyperlinks that outlines a website’s structure. These links allow visitors to quickly navigate to any section of a website listed in the sitemap.
What are the advantages to having a sitemap?
Well, in addition to making it easier for your visitors to navigate their way around your site, sitemaps also make [...]

It’s finally here: the little cars with the funny looking cameras on top have been whizzing around the country grabbing terrabytes worth of imaging data. Google’s been crunching the numbers since, and doing whatever other arcane jiggery-pokery they needed to do, and as of yesterday Google Maps Street View is now available in Ireland.
Here’s the [...]

E-mail marketing is still a winner when it comes to selling products and services. Consumers prefer e-mail communications to direct mail, social media, in store promotions and text messages, according to the latest figures.
A recent survey of shoppers across Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina and Ohio by CrossView revealed that almost 4 in 10 of them [...]

When you’re choosing your web hosting there can be so many variables that it’s difficult to know where to start.
There’s storage to think about, monthly bandwidth, domain registration, e-mail, databases, online applications and scripts, website builders and much more.
Here at LetsHost we pride ourselves on having some of the best web hosting support in [...]

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In a recent post we looked at how you can use web analytics tools already included in your LetsHost Complete Hosting Plan to analyse your website traffic and gain valuable insight into how your visitors use your site.
While these basic log file analysis tools are fine for giving you a general [...]

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Do you know how many people are visiting your website every day?
Do you know where they’re arriving from, what pages they’re landing on?
Do you know how long they spend with you once they arrive, and which page they leave from?

The simple answer is yes, you do!
All of [...]

So, you’ve  unboxed your shiny new Apple iPhone, connected it to iTunes and synchronised your music contacts and other bits and bobs… now you’re wondering how you go about collecting your e-mail on your brand new iPhone.
Well, there might not be an app for that… just yet – but here’s a handy YouTube video courtesy [...]

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Social Media has been the darling of the digirati, online early adopters and web2.0 advocates for a while now, but 2009 was the year when explosive growth took social media into the mainstream.
Research by Nielson group for the year to May 2009 revealed the following statistics:

An 82% increase in the total time spent [...]