With only a few weeks left in 2017 the New Year will be upon us before you know it. Get a jump start on your competition with a free consultation from Joker Web Hosting. Why wait until 2018 to start making money? Below are a few tips gathered from our staff of professional website designers. Mobile Friendly Website Your small business website must be mobile friendly. With today’s technology there isn’t a need to create a mobile only website alongside a desktop friendly website. Instead look towards a mobile responsive website. This will reduce the amount of time you have to spend updating th ..read more

Our system administrators scheduled a hardware maintenance for server host.jokerwebhosting.com at the Michigan datacenter. The maintenance will occur as follows: Maintenance start time: Aug 17, 2017, 11:00PM EDT Maintenance end time: Aug 17, 2017, 11:59PM EDT Expected service outage: up to five minutes for the server The purpose of the maintenance is to replace a secondary backup drive, which will require a server reboot. We will make every effort to ensure the downtime is as short as possible. The post Scheduled Server Maintenance – 08/17/17 @ 11PM EDT appeared first on Joker Web Hosting Blog ..read more

Generating an additional revenue stream using social media is easier than what you may think. Prior to doing so, you need to set out some ground rules or guidelines to follow. This will keep your social media campaign on target and have you generating money quickly. Social media itself is a catch-all term for sites that may provide radically different social actions. For instance, Twitter is a social site designed to let people share short messages or “updates” with others. Facebook, in contrast is a full-blown social networking site that allows for sharing updates, photos, joining events and ..read more

2017 is your year! With January over, why wait any longer for your website to start working for you?  Your business presence online, including social media, will be a defining factor in 2017. With more and more consumers going to their mobile device for answers, will your service be their answer? This year will mark 11 years that Joker Web Hosting has been in the business of uplifting other businesses. Over the years we have seen website development change in dramatic ways. Everyone remembers the days of the flashing icons and scrolling text. Then on to the more advanced flash video craz ..read more

How do we accomplish this? One word… RAILGUN! What is Railgun? Railgun is a WAN optimization technology that Joker Web Hosting offers to our hosting customers in partnership with a company called CloudFlare. CloudFlare’s Railgun technology greatly speeds up the delivery of non-cached pages. While CloudFlare automatically caches 65% of the resources needed to make up a page, 35% can’t be cached because the resources are dynamically generated or marked as ‘do not cache’. That 35% is often the initial HTML of the page that must be downloaded first. CloudFlare Railgun speeds this remaining 35 ..read more

Today, March 20, 2016, marks 10 years that Joker Web Hosting has been in business. Over the years Joker Web Hosting has always stayed true to it’s original mission, dedication to providing top notch customer service at a competitive price.  Only a few know the origins of the company, so today I would like to share that with everyone. Around 2005 the founder of Joker Web Hosting, Mike Johnson (me), became heavily involved in the administration of a vBulletin based forum, www.s10planet.com. In 2006 I was given ownership of the forum and took over paying the bills. This included the monthly ..read more

Optimizing Your Content for Social Media Expand each section to learn how you can optimize your social media content. 1. Prepare your site pages and blog posts for sharing via social media. Increase your linkability. To optimize a site for social media, you will need to increase the linkability of the content. Adding a blog is a great step. You can also create white papers or ebooks or even simply aggregate content that exists elsewhere into a useful format. Your visitors should want to link to your content. Make tagging and bookmarking easy. Use social media share buttons connected to book ..read more

This roadmap will guide you through specific stages of website optimization and promotion. Some tools mentioned are only available in our DIY SEO package. 1. Basic SEO Milestones 1.1 Purchase a domain name which contains your keywords. As you’ve no-doubt deduced by now, choosing the right Domain Name can be critically important! Not only does Google currently give some preference (although less since its recent Exact Match Domain (EMD) update) to keyword-rich domains (domains that include top keywords), so do people when they’re choosing which link in the search results to click. Unfortunat ..read more

1. Building a Keyword List Expand each section to learn how you can build an effective keyword list for your SEO project. Some tools mentioned are only available in our DIY SEO package. 1.1. Assemble a smart list of relevant search words (aka keywords) that your target audience is using to locate your products and services. Your target keyword list is the foundation of the keyword phrases that you will optimize your site for. Single keywords are highly competitive – in fact so competitive that it is unrealistic to expect that your Web pages can score at the top of the search results for a si ..read more

At Joker Web Hosting we offer CloudFlare as a free addon to all website hosting packages. Take a few seconds to watch this video to see how CloudFlare can help you and your website. The post CloudFlare Explained in 90 Seconds appeared first on Joker Web Hosting Blog ..read more