Building a website has never been easier. There are dozens of self-help programs that practically build the website for you. And if you don’t have the necessary skills to build one yourself, you can always download a suitable template from hundreds of free templates available on the Internet.

But when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to get your website listed high up the ladder on the search engines it’s a whole new ballgame! In fact, by comparison, building a website is as easy as apple pie.

Why have they made SEO so difficult? SEO requires keyword search terms, website descriptions, keywords in the body content, ALT tags on images, keywords in page titles, keywords in headers, keywords in page names, a keyword rich sitemap and even keywords in the website name. Then there’s Google webmaster tools, Google analytics, Google maps and a whole range of other useful (?) gimmicks like external links, adwords, sponsored and paid links, reciprocal links, directory submission, article submission, forum submission, blogs, facebook and twitter.

Phew!!! And that’s not all folks. We haven’t even submitted the website to the search engines yet. That’s a unique experience all on its own, especially if you want to promote your website to a number of search engines because they are all different and all require user names, passwords, your grannies name, or the first teacher you had in school. And if you do manage to climb these obstacles safely there’s no guarantee that it will work.

And if your website fails validation, or there are broken links, or it doesn’t work the same in different browsers, or you’re website is regarded as spamming, you could have serious problems.

So if you don’t want to make a complete shambles of your website’s SEO what do you do?

Answer: Get help from the professionals. Suncoast Internet provides a wide range of SEO packages to suit your budget and your intentions. A basic Starter Pack will set you back only $650 and your website will have most of the important optimisation requirements installed. You can then sit back and relax and watch your website climb the search engine mountain.

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For those of you who are not aware of Joomla it is a open source content management system. Hosting a Joomla website is not as easy as a lot of people may be led to believe. Sure there are a lot of cheap web hosting solutions available in the market place. A large percentage, approximately 95% of these cheap web hosting providers will provide the ability to host a Joomla website. This being said a lot of these providers do not actually have their servers geared towards a safe, secure and reliable joomla hosting solution. Suncoast Internet builds a lot of websites in Joomla, therefor it is important that the hosting environment which these Joomla website are stored on is secure, reliable and safe. Suncoast Internet employs an application that tests the security and health of a Joomla installation. This application is referred to as "HISA". HISA tests the web servers environment and security then advises the system administrator of what needs to be implemented to ensure that there is little to no risk of being compromised. The second phase is testing the Joomla environment and security. If your hosting your Joomla based website somewhere it is recommended that you test how safe your site is. You can download the HISA tool and upload it to your website. If you are not able to do this Suncoast Internet can offer this service to you for as low as $89.95. If you have obtained a copy of HISA and have found that the security of your joomla installation and the server it is on falls in to a medium – high risk area then you can check out our Joomla hosting page for a better, safer hosting environment.

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