It was a long night in a cold Ohio November when I came up with the name.  Well, actually, Config's Business Manager and Treasurer John McFarland came up with the name, when he teased Joe Rinehard and me:  "You're still working on that jambalaya thing?"  All I did was come up with the spelling (which I believe is unique), and the acronym to match.  As the snow started falling, I started thinking about the warm Gulf region, and spicy Creole dishes like jambalaya... and then it hit me!

Joombalaia!

It is with great pleasure that we serve this steaming hot dish of Joombalaia to our friends and clients.  Let's add some spice to your Internet presence and heat up your e-commerce, SEO, and Internet marketing efforts.  Enjoy; or as they say in New Orleans, laissez les bons temps roulez!

 If you're not a client of Config.com yet, what are you waiting for?  Join the crewe!  Call us today at 888.CONFIG.COM or e-mail us at \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For more information about Joombalaia, visit our Joombalaia website at http://joombalaia.com .

The importance of domain pre-payment in relationship to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)! 

It’s in Googles Patent… but not the end of the story! Googles Patent application became public information according to United States Patent Application 20050071741 on March 31, 2005 Serial No.: 748664 Filed: December 31, 2003.
That day I went home to read the legalize mixed with geek speak and attempt to make whatever sense I could out of it… and I have to confess, I’m still re-reading it

When I got to Section [0096] Domain-Related Information I was very interested indeed because I knew it could effect hundreds that I manage Domain Name Service (DNS) for. Before I share the details of the story of how I tested this sole value of pre-paid domain issue on Google and in my mind, I’d like to quote the Patent Application with a special attention to item [0099]:

[0099] Certain signals may be used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains. For example, domains can be renewed up to a period of 10 years. Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith.

About the time I re-read this the second time, I grabbed my cell phone to telephone my Business Manager. - LOL

I told him, I discovered something really simple and one of the few things that will cost a few bucks, but then, it’s all relative.

One thing that everyone who knows anything about Google is that they are all about not promoting spammers! Since Spammers or fly by night get rich quick idiots use throw away domains, they never invest in their domains future… I may even have slapped myself on the forehead for the simplicity that this one little thing which makes so much sense.

Now at this point I need to share the string I was trying hard to “own” for just too long a period. I’d been working on the string “National Internet Service Provider” since 2004 but just couldn’t get about page 40. Yep, not 40th place, but rather the 40th page, and I thought I knew what I was doing, because I did have over decade of experience behind me.

Ten to fourteen days after pre-paying three additional years, I did my Google research and discovered I made it to page 20. As far as I could tell that represented a 100% improvement! It was all I could do to wait another couple of weeks to pay for another three…

So when the second month rolled around, I promptly paid another three making the total only 6 years in advance so far. Geez-O-whizo, I found myself at the bottom of page one, about 7th to 10th place. You can imagine my excitement and the even stronger desire yet to just go ahead and pay for the rest… but no, I knew that some day a story would come from the experience that would potentially benefit anyone interested. It seems enough people have asked me over the years how to do better in the engines, so mot it be.

On the third month, the remaining four years was paid giving config.com a full decade of prepayment. It was at this point we reached the number one spot for that string I wanted so badly of “National Internet Service Provider”. Of course, a few calls and extra mail started to flow also. The down side for the Internet service business is that our bread and butter was established with traditional dial-up Internet access which has been migrating to broadband cable, DSL, and wireless. In the course of tweaking our site to reflect the commercial interest which we had maintained since 1993 on the ‘net, we started getting more commercially oriented calls. To our surprise, even from a few big companies
that were looking for various access solutions which included dial-up.

 Once we were established on the top ten, we also started gaining click throughs to our pages which also gained page rank and in the end, many other strings started moving to the top ten also. One should also assume that just because the domain was paid in advance, they need not do anything else toward maintaining any degree of quality SEO, without the many other things that can effect the final placement rank! I like to say there are many little simple things that need to be thought of as an element of a web page. It’s not getting them all done overnight but rather getting the important easy ones out of the way first, and move on to the next!

config login IS NOT associated with login.yahoo.com or yahoo login

Several years ago we experienced a flood of extra traffic from the Yahoo Search Engine. At the time it tuirned out their programmers made an error in the configuration file, no pun intended. Every time a yahoo member would read their email, log out, then decide to log back in, KA-Boom they landed at config.com!

You may have searched Google or Yahoo for the string "config login login.yahoo.com" which landed you to this page. We hope that you understand while we enjoy the extra traffic sent to use by Yahoo, we really have no control over their servers or have any way to tell you how to fix it.

Well, it seems to be happening again... We apologize and can only suggest that you email Yahoo and explain to them what is happening when you get directed to our site. We also know of no way to prevent this from happening to you, except possibly not using your back button to log back in to Yahoo

Custom Web Development & Hosting

config.com Internet services is unique in the we taylor the needs of the client while integrating Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services from the start and we use Open Source software if available to meet those needs. We don't just perform SEO for those that may purchase it as an add-on service, but do the minimum prerequestes for search engine placement by building in page titles, meta tags, alt tags on every page we make,... and have since 1994!

We understand that your web site is critical to your business. If your web site goes down, you lose revenue. If your site performs too slowly, customers will go somewhere else. Rest assured we'll keep your web site up and running smoothly so you can concentrate on other things.

I wrote the minimum prerequisites for effective SEO several years ago to serve as a minimum guide for my clients to keep in mind whenever they create a new page or tweak and existing web page for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Review offer

I'm currently available to perform a one-time Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Review of your web site homepage index for a one time fee of $250.00!

I'll review your web site and write an email of what is wrong with your site and what you may do to correct any issues.

My sales speel is simple: I have a proven track record and refrences in many industrys including some that are very competitive! Just do a Google search for the string "National Internet Services Provider" to see what I've done with my own company config.com which competes with all the big boy telehone companies like Verizons 1.3 billion advertising budget, or check out the Google string "food service books" which I gave guidance for my client totalfood.com who publishes a high quality newspaper for the New York metro food service industry!

I'm also available on an annual retainer, but offer this one time SEO review for those small businesses that may be concerned if they can afford my $6,000 annual retainer.

Please feel free to contact Joe Rinehart, your favorite Network Adminisstrator, if you have any questions, comments, or wish me to get to work for you today!

Residential services are defined as non-commercial primary usage and is thus exempt from taxation due to Congressional mortorium! If you current Internet Service Provider (ISP) is charging sales tax, you're paying too much! Commercial Internet access is in fact sales taxable!

I wrote this article in Oct of 1999 to help people using modems in rural America and ISP's understand someof the issue with dial-up modems. and the potential to resolve them.

Config.com, Inc. is pleased to offer Joombalaia, our Joomla!-based Content Management System.  Content Management Systems, or CMS, are the latest innovation in website technology.  Using CMS, you can easily and quickly transform your website from a turnkey three page model designed (and often maintained) by someone else to a much more comprehensive and useful site that you control yourself!

Unfortunately, until now CMS has been out of reach of the average business conducting e-commerce.  Web portals have been made popular by larger Internet-only companies like Yahoo! and Google... companies that can afford to have full-time staff on-hand to design complex website systems.  This process leads to websites that are very engaging, yes; but also very elaborate (too elaborate, in fact, to be easily maintained) and very, very expensive.  These companies can make websites like that; Internet is their livelihood.  Chances are, though, that's not why you're in business.  

Joombalaia makes CMS easy, just as Config.com, Inc. has been making Internet easy since 1994.  We have developed this application using Joomla!, a GNU/GPL licensed (Open Source) Content Management System.  We put our expertise into offering Joombalaia, with several members of Team Config having worked with Internet technologies since before the Web was invented.  Most importantly, we have the knowlege to make CMS work for you, with Search Engine Optimization and other services that ensure that your website doesn't get lost in the crowd.  That's what Joombalaia can do for you. 

Here are some facts about Joombalaia, including data about Joomla!

Welcome to config.com International Internet services

When I established the domain config.com back in Jan of 1994 a little over a year before the Internet became commercial, I knew it would eventually change society! At the time, I couldn't understand why everyone wasn't on and that we had two directions to pursue. The first being communications and the second being commerce. Ironically, it has happened to config.com in that order.

Config.com started providing Internet access to our rural area in 1996, first as a resellor for a Cleveland Ohio company, then in Jan of 1999 becoming the first facilities based ISP in our rural Portage Ohio County. Three quarters of our County was long distance to Akron, Ohio at the time. These days we provide the remote dial-up Internet access a company that transmits MRI images to the Cleveland Clinic and also for the fifth largest school system in Ohio, the Akron public schools remote digital academy which we save them a bundle annually!

Our first web site project was putting the first National center for missing children online for Dr. Ward in 1994. Even during the period when we were focused on selling dial up Internet access we found ourselves building, hosting web sites, and maintaining our own network infrastructure. These days we provide web hosting services for over 500 domains World-wide!

I also knew that if we wre to ever compete with the big boys, I'd have to make myself available for emergency network issues and aim for providing the highest quality of services possible. These days, I'm still available and find it challenging to see how long I can keep my personal contact information available as we grow larger ;)

In 2004 We became a National provider and 2005 Internet access we sold our first Internet access dial-up accounts in Canada and Puerto Rico too! We've also been consulting and hosting web projects World-Wide snce 1999 thus making us an International services company.

We hope that you consider config.com Internet services for your dial-up or DSL Internet access or commercial small or medium business web hosting provision! I was once told we should advertise "We have live people who answer our phones!" so Buddy, consider this such an advertisement... We hope others will see the light too! After all, it's about the quality, isn't it?

To learn more about credit card processing services available through config.com visit:

http://creditcardprocessing.config.com/   or telephone Chris Warren.

Chris is an Internet and retail credit card processing specialist who represents First Data and Authorize.Net which helps our web hosting clients get set up for merchant credit card processing. Chris is physically located in Kent, Ohio and commutes to small to medium sized businesses throughout NorthEast Ohio. Don't live in Northeast Ohio, No problem, Chris may set you up via the Internet or send a representative in your area.

NPR's Top Web Gadgets of 2007 includes the Joomla content management software (CMS)! 

We are very please to announce that National Public Radio (NPR) includes Joomla at one of the top web gadgets of 2007! Our Joombalaia service is based on the Open Source Joomla software

A clip from the story includes:

"Joomla and Drupal are two free, open-source software platforms that let anybody create incredibly complex Internet sites on their own.

You can make your own powerful and sophisticated discussion group, auction site, wiki, online magazine — or whatever else you can dream up — using relatively simple tools. Both have been around a while but became far more mature and easy to use in 2007."

 To read the entire story visit URL:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17791226

More information about config.com's Joombalaia service is at URL:

http://www.config.com/index.php/Products-Services/Joombalaia-content-management.html 

Best ecommerce web hosts 2008

We aren't sure who comes up with these ratings, and how they are determined... but one thing we know for sure is that if you should search on Google for the string "best ecommerce web hosts 2008", chances are, you'll find config.com ;)

We also like to think we are the best! Contact us today!

We are making banner advertising sponsorships available to help support our web hosting and publishing programs for non-profits or other socially conscience or service projects!

These banners will rotate between the sponsors and are available for only $500 per 25,000 impressions!

Send the web master your 468x60 banner art, contact info, link you'd like that banner pointed to, and send payment through the shoppingcart to config.com Internet services. Once confirmed, the ad will start displaying. The entire process could take as little as an hour to get your sponsorship online

Thank you for your consideration!

Ever since domains became deregulated there have been scams to mislead domain owners into moving their domain registrar!

Today, I received an email from Dave Woroch the VP, Sales and Support for Tucows who makes recommendations for protecting domain owners against the domain scammers.I only disagree with him on the point of what is called "Domain Privacy"!

The reason is Google doesn't like Domain Privacy because it 's a common spam tactic to make it harder for people to find them to complain. There are also other arguements that don't have as much to do with Search Engine Optimization like there are many people that won't do business with companies that hide their contact info. I've always been a fan of making it as easy as possible to have people find you and that certainly includes allowing them to use "Whois" to find accurate current contact information.

I suppose if you don't care about electronic marketing, possibly for a personal domain, then by all means hide behind a cloaked domain! 

In any regard,  Dave does present some good information so I'm publishing it verbatium below:

The Slipstream Internet accelerator will make your rural dial-up or broadband connection up to 6 times faster and is available free for config.com subscribers and $3.00 monthly for non-subscribers! Call 1.888.config.com (266.3442)

The Slipstream Dial-Up Accelerator Client is a breakthrough in web technology that uses a proprietary compression on text, html, xml, javascript and style sheets. Proprietary image compression is applied to gif images, jpeg images and Flash content.

Deployed by more than 2200 service providers in over 50 countries, SlipStream technology is the de facto standard in acceleration, adaptive data compression and network optimization technology. SlipStream enables service providers and other Technology Partners to deliver the fastest and most satisfying online experience for their subscribers, while signficantly reducing bandwidth requirements and infrastructure investment.

SlipStream technology features industry-leading lossy and lossless compression algorithms and is built on advancements in information theory and network architecture research conducted by the world-renowned computer science and computer engineering faculties at the University of Waterloo. The SlipStream solution compresses, optimizes and streamlines Internet content, from Web (including text as HTML, XML, JavaScript and graphics) to file retrieval (FTP) and email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP and MAPI).

SlipStream also accelerates email traffic (POP3 and SMTP) using a lossless compression.

Selling PPP Net Audio Ads affiliate program is ramping up and moving forward!

This past week we've had 7 affliates sign up from the config.com selling ppp articles. Revenue started flowing for two of them. Some times people sign up and don't place the code on their web site right away which is my assumption.

config.com proudly host the web site sellingppp.com which is one of the fastest growing sites we've seen since 1993! Better yet, according to Alexa it is faster than 62% of the sites in the World and is also is the 3,326 most popular web site according to URL: 
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/sellingppp.com

Visit http://www.sellingppp.com/ TODAY and sign up under config.com!