config.com International Internet access and small business services RSS feed syndicate http://www.config.com 2008-05-17T04:22:24+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/images/M_images/configcom120x16.jpg text/html 2008-05-11T01:23:19+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Advertising-sponsorship-opportunity-in-cancer-directory.html How to Have Your Company Advertised on a new huge 450,000 page internet cancer directory with key word text links to your corporate site- Developed by former Microsoft and Boeing employee specializing in directory systems that compete with the major sites for a fraction of the cost. Some top medical and health sites are paying $26,000 a day in pay per click! Prelaunch investment: $3500 a month (investment 10 months. Mo. 11 and 12 FREE-$7000 value). Plus optional bonus: 4 full page ads in the USA's only full size newspaper on natural health and good news called Healthy Referral www.healthyreferral.com (http://www.healthyreferral.com) over $16,000 in ads. Inquiries: healthyreferral@gmail.com and tom.tennis@yahoo.com text/html 2008-05-08T00:35:19+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Information-week-National-Ad.html See the config.com E-Commerce SEO ad in Information Week within the June and July 2008 issues! (http://www.informationweek.com/) http://www.informationweek.com/ (http://www.informationweek.com/) text/html 2008-04-07T19:33:57+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/What-happened-to-Microsoft-FrontPage.html What happened to Microsoft FrontPage? It is an amazing thing that people constinue to utilize software that hasn't been supported for years or had certainly ever evolved with the Internet, but it's true! In our home office in the heart of Portage County, Ohio we've even seen the former local Economic development director retire to continue the development of the Front Page hosting business he started while holding his government office. Well, in fairness to him, he did a decent job organizing and publishing information to promote our local communities, even though for years we felt a bit bitter and always thought the role of government wasn't supposed to compete with free enterprize. These days, it really doesn't matter much any more to our small company if the local governments wish to sit back and collect our tax revenue while we work with other institutions world-wide and effectively grow in the world of E-commerce while their web sites remain more often than not with stagnant information. Gee whiz, maybe some day we'll even get big enough to have a reason we could argue to move our company to a small tax exempt island with plenty of job opportunities near the equator ;) text/html 2008-03-26T21:36:07+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Cynthia-McKay-Le-Gourmet-Gift-Basket.html Introducing Cynthia McKay’s Le Gourmet Gift Basket! We are always pleased when we get to help any profit or not for profit type projects that make a such a difference we can tell mom and everyone else about ;) Le Gourmet Gift Basket is such a project. Cynthia McKay of Le Gourmet Gift Basket at Le Gourmet gift basket website - http://www.legift.com (http://www.legift.com/) telephoned me the other day to discuss our assisting their team with some Internet related public relations and search engine optimization SEO and reverse SEO issues. While a company named Nolan Interactive of New York, New York is doing the on-site SEO and editing the website, we will be working tiogether to reach Le Gourmet Gift Baske Internet traffic goals. Cynthia McKay of Le Gourmet Gift Basket was a lawyer who changed careers to help women establish gift basket businesses and has become a National media personality for doing so. We are looking forward to working with Le Gourmet Gift Basket and Cynthia McKay to help her expose the quality of her exciting women owned businesses on the Internet, The Le Gourmet Gift Basket about page offers more information about the company Cynthis McKay founded to help benefit women which includes text/html 2008-03-08T12:33:04+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Free-Banners-for-our-E-commerce-clients.html Free Banners for our E-commerce web hosting and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) clients are being made available for a limited time only! Due to a recent opportunity which is causing our config.com traffic to rise we are offering FREE banner advertising for our commercial Internet accounts. To take advantage of this limited time offer, please email your 468x60 pixel banner artwork to admin@config.com (mailto:admin@config.com?subject=Banner%20artwork) text/html 2008-03-05T15:41:19+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Testing-Net-Audio-Ads.html This is a test... Config.Com, in cooperation with Net Audio Ads, is conducting a test of audio advertising delivered over this website. Services and/or products mentioned in these test ads may not be available here in the Portage County Ohio area.. and may or may not be real. Thanks for visiting. We're glad you've made Config.Com your source for Internet E-Commerce services and social networking! To learn more about audio advertising you may wish to visit URL: http://advertising.config.com/ (http://advertising.config.com/) text/html 2008-02-08T12:48:37+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Take-Steps-to-Prevent-Domain-Name-Renewal-Scams.html 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: text/html 2008-02-07T17:14:48+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/config-login-NOT-login.yahoo.com-or-yahoo-login.html 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 text/html 2008-02-04T23:19:05+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Products-Services/Joombalaia-Customization.html Considering Joombalaia but you like the look and feel of your old web site? Customizing Joombalaia may be the right answer for you. text/html 2008-01-28T23:58:56+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Microsoft-s-Silverlight-plugin-program-will-give-Adobe-Flash-new-competition.html I enjoyed a surprise visit today from an old friend Andrew Pardoe who I've known since the late 80's early 90's when he was working on his undergraduate degree at Kent State University. Andrew or AP as his old friends call him has been working at One Microsoft Way, in Redmond Washington for about a decade. As it turns out he is also now the program manager for the Microsoft's new Silverlight multimedia software which for the lack of a better description of anything that currently exists I'll compare to Adobes Flash. Microsoft recently revamped their web site using the Silverlight software which got my attention. Silverlight includes 720p high-definition video which can be streamed from about any type of Internet connection. Andrew demonstrated some of the features to me and I've seen eye candy before, but this has some icing on the cake features. I guess I get turned on over the simple things and when I saw the web pages flipping like the pages of a book, it made a simple concept look like a complex motion picture movie production. text/html 2008-01-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Latest/What-is-config.html CONFIG is an abbreviation for configuration and the computer science meaning is: The way that the components of a computer network are connected . A dictionary definition of the word configuration (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/CONFIGURATION) is available. Once upon a time... In the early days of Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System) there were two files that were called upon to start your computer. These were Autoexec.bat (batch file) and the config.sys file. I used to tell people that the config.sys file was what told your computer where everthing was. In reality it also set the parameters for devices like your CD-ROM drive. Here is an example of what the config.sys may look like: text/html 2008-01-24T09:35:07+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Banner-advertising-sponsorship-now-available.html 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 (index.php/Advertising/Advertising-Banner-on-config.com.html?flypage=0) 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! text/html 2008-01-21T15:27:04+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Latest/Credit-card-processing-services.html To learn more about credit card processing services available through config.com visit: http://creditcardprocessing.config.com/ (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. text/html 2008-01-18T14:41:17+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/NPR-s-Top-Web-Gadgets-of-2007-includes-Joomla.html 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 (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 (index.php/Products-Services/Joombalaia-content-management.html) text/html 2008-01-16T13:44:13+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/NetAudioAds-Pay-Per-Play-blog-and-web-site-affiliate-program.html NetAudioAds™ Pay Per Play affiliate programHow would you like to get paid a fair share every time an audio ad shows up on your page rather than a few pennies when someone clicks? Unlike Pay Per Click advertising (Google Adsense) which pays you only a small percentage when a website visitor actually clicks on an ad and then that visitor leaves your site — NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play program let’s you earn money on one hundred (100%) of your web traffic without selling anything and without anyone having to click on anything. What if your web site(s) could earn money 100% of the time someone visits your web site and the ad plays just like a Television or Radio audience? Your visitors only have to listen to 5 seconds of audio and you get paid! BIG advertisers like Taco Bell, Harley Davidson, and HBO are willing to pay you on 100% of your website traffic. Check out a sample ad: http://voice2page.com/info/VOJOBS/netaudioad0002.mp3Now you can! All you have to do is sign up today and add a line of code to the bottom of your web page. Between now and Feb 1st 2008 we are accepting registrations to the Pay Per Play Net Audio Ads affiliate program and anyone you refer, and anyone that your referral refers that signs up you'll get 5% of their ad revenue too! The audio ads are non-intrusive because.. - the audios are played and not seen, they do not take up any webspace - the audios play for 5 seconds net audio ads pay per play - the audios play once per visit - the audios are related to the content of the webpage NetAudioAds™ has been running for 2 ½ years, has over 66,000 advertisers and over 550,000 websites that serve Pay Per Play ads to their visitors. 5% of what the advertiser spends on Pay Per Play ads played on the website(s) of those you refer. 25% of what the advertiser spends on Pay Per Play ads you serve on your own website(s). 5% of what the advertiser spends on Pay Per Play ads played on the website(s) that your direct referrals bring on board. The pay out runs up to $28 CPM, meaning for 1000 page views you get 28 USD It doesn't cost anything to sign up and you can leave the program at any time! Ads can coexist with existing Google Adsense and other media The company I founded config.com Internet services is hosting the Pay Per Play sellingppp.com website. I'm privledged to have access to server stats and while I'm not at liberty to discuss statistical details, I can tell you one thing for sure... I've never seen anything like this growth before! I've managed hundreds of domains throughout my almost twenty year career with data transmission and I once had my fifteen minutes of fame according to Andy Warhol. One of my early web sites from '93-'97 received in excess of 3,000,000 IP visitors monthly... but I've never seen a site get in the top 10,000 sites of the World according to Alexa within it's first month! It appears they are on target for the top 1,000 soon too. I was very impressed from the start with the quality careers of the people I've been introduced from my small role hosting the project. Charles Heflin is the CEO of SEO2020 and many would consider him to be amoung the most respected Search Engine Optimizers in the World and whom is behind the marketing of Pay Per Play. Micheal Knox who works with Larry Host on Voice2Page™ has an interesting history as well. Mike was the orginal author of what became the World's most popular game in computing history before it was sold to Sony, John Madden Football. I was introduce to several of the Pay Per Pay players by a client, friend, and peer Dave Jones. Dave once authored a little program called Jennifer which was sold to Foxpro, then later to Borland, then to a small company we all know and love called Microsoft. Today Daves program is known as the compiler for C++. As for myself, I'm the author of the first URL or Internet address advertised in a computer magazine (Computer Shopper 1993) which occured two years before the Internet became commercial back in the days of single spin CD-ROM technology It is evident that this project is destine for success by the respected careers of the people working on it in various capacities! I urge anyone and everyone to participate in this new frontier of audio advertising on the Internet! This is a real share the wealth program which I'm pleased to participate before Feb 1st 2008... You can too!According to Charles, NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play (PPP) advertising is backed by one of the 5 major search engines. Visit http://www.sellingppp.com/ (http://www.sellingppp.com/a.cgi?ppp=1208708631) TODAY! text/html 2008-01-07T17:02:53+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Latest/The-importance-of-domain-pre-payment-in-relationship-to-Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO.html 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. I discussed with my manager peer the possibility to not test over a 9 month period because I’m just as needy as my clients are to do good on the ‘net, but to do it over a quarter of a year. The following day I proposed paying for three additional years, then a month later three more, then on the third month the remaining four. We also determined that since we’ve had a decade to prepare our site, we could not make any other changes what-so-ever. No dotted i’s or crossed t’s because I love that humour in these days of technology. I knew that this test wouldn’t fall into the scientific quality, but figured the results could be measured, in any regard. 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! text/html 2008-01-02T21:12:44+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Products-Services/Joombalaia-content-management.html Config.com, Inc. (http://config.com/) 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! text/html 2007-12-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Newsflash/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO-Reviews.html 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! text/html 2004-08-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Products-Services/The-Slipstream-Rural-Dial-Up-Accelerator-Client.html 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. text/html 1994-01-31T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.config.com http://www.config.com/Products-Services/Custom-Web-Development-Hosting.html Custom Web Development Hostingconfig.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. The config.com team is comprised of several experts in their related fields which include: Network Administration, Email, HTML, PHP, MYSQL, Zope, Joomla, Network Monitoring, Programmers, Artists, Photographers, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) professionals.