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Here is one voice that is changing – not only the wine world, but internet marketing as well. I follow him on Twitter, and so should you!

Here’s a video of Gary Vaynerchuk on CNN:

I know that before I started reselling web site hosting, I did not know where to find a good place that had done the research for me on a selection. I have found that the best website hosting reviews will contain reviews of the top 10 hosting companies around. The reviews have to be independent from a hosting outfit, with the ratings based on on web surfer’s feedback, hosting tools testing, and the overall usage of their services.

Upperhost.com is the place readers! Here is their mission statement:

Our Mission is to Test, Inform and Inform the potential web hosting consumers and businesses. We accept no advertisements or donations from any web hosting company.

For example, they have a review of lunarpages hosting, which contains all the greatest information you need in order to make a quality decision on their services.

So all in all, I rate them at the top of the review niche for hosting.

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I do run (via VirtualBox) Windows XP – but that’s just for web dev. stuff. My day-to-day is strickly Linux!

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And if I may, let me shorten your search for your new design company. You see, Seattle based Visualscope Studios is that professional web design and consulting outfit. They specialize in web site design, search engine optimization, and e-commerce projects.

Even if you are not in the market for a firm to create or modify your current web site, VisualScope offers great web design articles for you to study at your leisure.

I remember once someone asked why I, as a designer, would link to, and post about, another shop that does web design. Well, firstly, I only link out to quality sites that I find would be a benefit for my readers. Secondly, I would not mind getting a cool design from them myself. Their main site has a beautiful – and valid – design that is pleasing to the eye.

Anyway, try them out, and let me know what you think.

It’s very useful to get your site dugg (ok, a play on words from digg.com) , reddit, stumbled (stumbleupon.com), and the many other sites. So how is that good for marketing? Simply because of the traffic those submissions generate. Not to mention the linkbacks. You see, those sites are highly crawled by the big search engines, and so they’ll find a link pointing to your site very fast.

So how many of you are actively marketing your websites the social way?

But if I would of known of the great data recovery software that is available from DTIData.com, I would have called them as soon as I realized the mistake I had made, and had cost my company the money it could not recover from the lost data. You see, DTIData.com’s data recovery services are both affordable and convenient. Especially considering the loss of finances you will have if you ever loose the data on your PC (Personal Computer), Apple Macintosh, Linux box, or any laptop that runs any of the mentioned OSs (Operating Systems) hard drives.

And for you small to medium/large companies that run high-end servers, you should feel confident about DTIData.com, as they run a full service data recovery lab. For all of you technical geeky-types reading this, that means their lab is a “secured class 100″ clean room. That’s where they do hard drive recoveries. And even the data recovery software that they offer is created by them, and they have it available for sale on their website.

And just so you know, DTI Data Recovery has been given authorization by all the leading manufactures of hard drives to open the drives without the voiding of the warranty. That is an important part of their success. And to top it off, they guarantee that all the files recovered on your hard drives will be in working condition.

I know that when I work on a clients (ok, most of my clients are non-paying friends) computer or laptop, there is always a nagging feeling at the back of my head that screams at me to make a backup of their systems before I begin any work on them. But since that is not always an option, I am going to bookmark DTIData.com just in case I get a failed drive error, or even worse…if I begin to smell smoke rising from their personal computers. I am not going to relive my, “What did you do to our data?” moment again.

And with the many ‘ecommerce software‘ solutions online, the one I found to be one of the best options for the small website owner is the ‘shopping cart‘ from ASPDotNetStoreFront.com – as they specialize in ecommerce solutions that will fit any budget. I will be looking to ad a shopping cart to at least one of my non design sites in early 2008, and I know that the profile pages that ASPDotNetStoreFront.com has posted on their website are enough for me to see both quality in their software, and their commitment to their clients.

I know that semantics and ecommerce solutions seem to be two sides of the spectrum, but if you continue to read the rest of the posts here, you’ll see how I recommend that you use semantically correct markup in the aid to monetizing your websites – and that fits with shopping cart, eCommerce sites as well.

• 40% - YES! Remove the nofollow!
• 20% - NO! Keep the nofollow!
• 40% - What is nofollow?

So far in this poll, only 20% of voters want the nofollow to remain (probably Google employees…maybe Matt has been here ). And the rest of the ballets are tied between, “YES remove it!”, and, “What is it?” So I’ll let the poll continue for a while more, but for those 40% of voters who need a refresher as to what nofollow is, please read this post titled, “Nofollow Nolonger“.