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The highly anticipated and much talked about Rapid Domination blog is finally here.

Rapid Domination is a free resource for all of our current and future clients that will include expert SEO and Marketing advice to help you reach your business goals. Some of the topics we will be covering include:

• Basics to advanced search engine optimization (SEO)
• Link Building
• Pay Per Click advertising
• The importance of utilizing social media marketing
• Blogging
• Podcasting
• Creating professional Videos
• Marketing tactics

This will truly prove to be a valuable resource that will help you achieve top results in the search engines, drive traffic to your website, increase your conversion ratio and rapidly dominate your competition.

Accessing the Rapid Domination blog is very simple.

If you are a shared or reseller hosting customer login to http://control.appliedi.net and click on the Rapid Domination icon located on the right lower portion of the User Main Menu Screen.

If you are a VPS or a  Dedicated hosting customer login to https://secure.appliedi.net  and click on the Rapid Domination icon below the extra features section in the user main menu page.

Why are we giving such valuable information away for FREE?

We always strive to go above and beyond our clients’ expectations and offer service and support that is unparalleled in the web hosting industry. With the recent downturns in the economy, it’s more important than ever to focus on your marketing efforts and grow your business while your competitors stand still. We want your business to grow.

With the introduction of Rapid Domination, we will also be developing other valuable resources such as video tutorials, webinars, site reviews, offering question and answer forums and much more.

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As Windows Web hosting experts, we are fully committed to achieving the latest and greatest in technical expertise and delivering a truly innovative and intelligent hosting service. On this note, we are pleased to announce that Microsoft has renewed our status as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for the 5th consecutive year!

With this year’s renewal, Microsoft also recognized two additional competencies for AppliedI.net. Previously, we maintained competencies in Advanced Infrastructure Systems and Network Infrastructure Systems. This year, Microsoft added two additional competencies, in both Hosting Solutions and Security Solutions. The addition of the new Hosting Solutions (previously a component of the Advanced Infrastructure Systems competency) and the Security Solutions competency showcases our expertise in Security and Hosted IT. (Learn more about the various competencies)

Achieving Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status is a result of hard work and continued focus. We are required to maintain a number of Microsoft Certified Professionals on staff, satisfactorily complete an annual customer satisfaction performance review, provide customer references, and meet an annual volume licensing commitment.

In return, AppliedI.net receives advanced technical resources and training, consultation services, early access to the next generation of Microsoft software, and access to a dedicated team of experts within the Microsoft Hosting Solution group. In fact, our team communicates with Microsoft Hosting and Server experts on a daily basis in an effort to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation.

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It has been widely observed that Google likes domains that are aged. You might have heard the term, ‘Google Sandbox’ thrown around in marketing and SEO forums. This term refers to the amount of time it takes from when a site goes live to when it begins to receive Google rankings. Wikipedia has a great explanation of this.

Here’s the Hot Tip!

Do you own domain names that are just sitting and not being hosted? Have you been wondering what to do with them? Maybe you’re currently building out a site for them? Maybe you’re waiting to build them out?  These domains are the perfect opportunity to utilize a blog!

By putting a blog on your domain while you are in the process of building out your site, you will cut down on the time you spend in the ‘Google Sandbox’. Then when your site goes live, you will be ready for ranking.

It is also a good idea to put up a splash page on your main domain, www.domain.com. You can say ‘Coming Soon’ or ‘About Us’ and add a link to your blog. (Don’t forget, be sure to place your blog in a subfolder with a keyword like: /keyword-blog/).

Remember, you must use the blog and post to it regularly. At first, the content does not matter so much as you are really using it to escape the dreaded ‘Sandbox’. This is a great way to use those domains that you have thought about but haven’t decided what to do with yet.

It’s Simple but Effective.

This tip is simple but it can make the difference between launching a successful site that starts to rank in organic searches or one that waits months for FREE traffic.

Where to go now?

In Conclusion, If you have a domain not being hosted it is not benefiting you in any way. Hosting the domain and putting up a blog adds value to the domain and gets it ready for when you want to use it. You can also monetize off this domain immediately. By implementing something like Google Adsense on your blog.  By building traffic, this also makes it much more desirable if you are thinking about selling the domain down the road as you can show revenue and traffic. We will take about buying/selling domains and monetizing your blog in future articles.

So what are you waiting for? Dust of those domains that are just sitting dormant and get them hosted! For the small investment in a shared hosting account will give you big returns in the future. Best of all your shared hosting account probably includes support for multiple domains already.

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Adding a blog to your website will give you numerous benefits to your search engine ranking.

Two of the most important aspects of a blog are the ability to easily add content to your website and building links to your content which will cause search engines like Google to index your site more frequently. Before you begin you must decide where to install your blog. You have several choices:

• Install your blog on a sub-domain (example: http://blog.domain.com)
• Installing your blog in a sub-folder (example: http://domain.com/blog/)
• Installing your blog as its own website on a new and entirely different domain name (example http://domainblog.com)

For the purposes of this blog entry we will be discussing the effects of installing your blog within a sub-folder or on a sub-domain and later we will discuss the advantages of adding an additional blog on a separate domain (option 3) at a later date.

Option 1: Installing your blog on a sub-domain

A sub-domain in Google is considered a separate site for SEO purposes. For example, Google sees myblog.mydomain.com as being different from www.mydomain.com/myblog.

For this reason, when initially setting up your blog it will benefit you to set it up with a sub-folder. At a later point we will discuss why setting up your blog on a sub-domain could be beneficial.

Option 2: Installing your blog in a folder within a sub-folder

We recommend installing your blog in a sub-folder within your primary website. Installing a blog directly on your site in this manner will help your main website www.mydomain.com to increase your rankings the search engines by building several links to your main website and providing fresh content on your main website to keep the search engine spiders frequently visiting your site.

We support numerous different blogging applications and tools. One of the most commonly used though is the opensource and free WordPress. Through this series of articles we’ll use WordPress, ofcourse these same principles apply to other blogging platforms.

A great feature in our control panel is the Application Packs installer. With the Application Packs installer you can install several different applications with just a couple mouse clicks.

To learn how to install a blog directly on your website, such as the free blog platform WordPress in your web hosting control panel, watch the easy to follow video below.

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Over the next few articles in this first series we will be taking a in-depth look at how to customize your WordPress blog and maximize its SEO benefits. We’ll also discuss how to use use your new SEO friendly blog to increase your rankings in the search engines and much much more. So in the meantime, it’s a great time to follow the video and install your WordPress blog.

Stay tuned to learn more about your new WordPress blog.

If your are not currently a customer of Appliedi.net and would like to receive more information on blogging or our services, please contact us today at 866-706-8691 or visit us at http://www.appliedi.net

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Appliedi.net announces the FREE new resource Rapid Domination that we’re making available to all clients. You may be asking what is Rapid Domination and why are we offering such a valuable resource for FREE?

Rapid Domination is a free resource for all of our current and future clients that will include expert SEO and Marketing advice to help you reach your business goals. Some of the topics we will be covering include:

Basic to advanced search engine optimization (SEO)

• Link Building
• Pay Per Click advertising
• The importance of utilizing social media marketing
• Blogging
• Podcasting
• Creating professional Videos
• Marketing tactics
• And so much more!

This will truly prove to be a valuable resource that will help you achieve top results in the search engines, drive traffic to your website, increase your conversion ratio and rapidly dominate your competition.

Why are we giving such valuable information away for FREE?

We always strive to go above and beyond our clients’ expectations and offer service and support that is unparalleled in the web hosting industry. With the recent downturns in the economny, it’s more important than ever to focus on your marketing efforts and grow your business while your competitors stand still. We want your business to grow.

Over the next few weeks our hosting clients will receive a username and password allowing access to a private members-only area. In this private area you will find latest tactics in SEO and Internet Marketing that go beyond the very basics to some of our experts best kept secrets.

With the introduction of Rapid Domination, we will also be developing other valuable resources such as video tutorials, webinars, site reviews, offering question and answer forums and much more.

This is also an exciting time for Appliedi.net users.

We recently launched our Windows 2008 shared hosting platform and at the same time launched the availability of shared SQL2008 hosting and upgraded our listmanager service. In addition we’re busy preparing to roll out an even broader range of new products, services and partnerships to help you continue to build your business.

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