SEO Hosting

Search Engine Friendly Hosting (SEF) Service

Masi dedicated to providing easy to use, affordable SEO friendly web hosting that helps your business thrive on-line. With easy one click installs of popular software and search engine friendly features.

Industry leading data centre with excellent connectivity ensuring fast access times and excellent uptime (99.9% or more) to ensure the site is spidered efficiently and pages load quickly for visitors.
Support for .htaccess files – allowing you to set key server features such as mod_rewrite and search engine friendly 301 redirects. Many of the major web hosts DO NOT support these features!

Excellent Awstats and Webalizer web stats packages plus access to raw web logs so you can accurately track visitors.

One click creation of Google Sitemaps – the smart way to inform Google of your sites presence and structure. One click install of software like Joomla, Mambo, WordPress, Geeklog and many other applications.

SEO friendly hosting for your website.

Having the wrong host can be detrimental to your listing and usually when something goes wrong the damage is too substancial to fix. Take a look at these tips on choosing a hosting provider; some of them are comfort tips, some are Google signals and others critical warnings that must be followed.

Down Time and Server Response

You want to find a server with a up time or 99.9%. Server down time that lasts too long and returns the wrong HTTP server status during maintenance or suspension will KILL your ranking very quickly. No matter what the reason for the down time is, a host should NEVER redirect your page to their own hosting domain.

In our opinion this action is stealing. You have worked hard for your PageRank just for it to be nabbed up by your hosting company. If there is a down time on your site for whatever reason the server should always return a 503 (Tells Google and others that Server is unavailable, please come back and try later.). If your account is suspended it should be a 503. If it is down for maintenance it should return a 503. If it has run out of bandwidth it should be a 503.
If you need to be notified on down time (many times you never know) then use software like Uptime Robot to let you know when your site goes down. If you need to be notified on down time (many times you never know) then use software like Uptime Robot to let you know when your site goes down.

Cpanel Access

We prefer to use a host that has Cpanel access for the sole reason that we have full control of most aspects of our site. When you are doing SEO on a site you will need to use key features like “301 redirection” and “sub domain creation”. With Cpanel installed it is easy to set this up without having to ask the hosting company to do it for you. Be sure that your hosting company keeps their Cpanel up to date.

URL Rewriting

Once again Apache makes this an easy process. To understand a little

more about URL rewriting you can check out the Apache URL rewriting guide.

Normal Url: http://mysite.com/index.php?s=12345 URL with rewriting: http://mysite.com/sexy-seo-friendly-url.html/.php/.asp etc…

.htaccess

Is unrestricted access to the .htacess file provided? The .htaccess file is responsible for many server side tweeks that make a website search engine friendly just a tad easier. You can easily set up 301 redirects when needed and mod_rewrite is a breeze (so long as you have checked that your server supports it). In the .htaccess file you can also help speed up your site by adding caching capabilities.

Do not use free site builder’s ever!

Site builders that are offered with many hosting packages are not SEO friendly so DO NOT US THEM! They pollute your site with un-necessary code and in most cases have no SEO features built in. Do not use then as a stepping stone to a new site as they will infect your domain popularity. Rather wait around until you have the budget to create a professional site.

Do a blacklist check on your hosting server.

Make sure that the server IP that your site is hosted on is not blacklisted or shared by any “bad neighborhoods”. Click here to do a IP blacklist check.

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