Google sometimes is boring. It always returns the same results over and over again for different combinations of the search terms. I wanted to find out if there are any new websites that are showing up in the blog sphere that would pay you to blog. An idea struck me last night and I thought I would go ahead and look for other search engines that are there in the world. Surely they will not be using the algorithm of Google, so the way they display the results would be greater, and you can find what you are looking for with a bit of ease. Or atleast you could hope for it. So when I set foot to start looking for a new search engine which would give me better, or atleast different results for blog pay I landed upon RankNoodle.com. It is a search engine that would not only give you the search results like google does, but also gives you an article on what you are looking for. So for example lets say you are searching for the term search engine for beginners you get a simple article on what is meant by search engine and why it exists and why people cant do without a search engine.

I have a feeling that this site will redefine the concept of search engines. This even acts like a miniature wikipedia as it gives a small synopsys of what you are searching for. there has already been a debate that wikipedia might in the near future overtake google in the search for information as wikipedia has got almost everything now, and it comes without ads and it doesnt use any stupid algorithms. Lets say you are searching fro a good hosting company. When you search google it will just give you a list of sites in the order in which the sites are optimized. But if the company is good at optimization of websites for the search engines and are not really keen on hosting, then the site might be on the top but the service might be poor, while the people who provide good services might be bottom just because they have not optimized their websites or they have not put up any sponsored advertisments on google’s search page.

A search with an article is at its starting stage, and once developed, people will only go for that. When you search for hosting companies on a search engine like ranknoodle.com, you will possibly get a user edited or a user reviewed list of sites rather than a list that is ordered bust by a company’s stupid algorithm. This technology is going to rule the internet in the very near future.

Dont use Orkut or any other social networking communities unless you are a very big company and are sure that a group of your onw clinets cannot mob you off your business.

If you start a forum for your hosting company in the initial stages and leave it unmoderated, naturally you will get links of sites of people posted in their footers, you will get intentional bad reviews from competition or people who dont wish to see you grow, and when a group forms, they might just go ahead and start their own business, every one serving one another.

Dont do that.

Maintain a mailing list, and send out newsletters to everyone once in a while, give them offers, create polls, create offers and stuff.

Or, add them all to various instant messengers that are available online such as Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AOL, Gtalk and Skype. This way, all clients would need to add you first to chat with you, and it is easy for them to follow you up, and for you to follow them up. And if any one finds the other annoying, the “block” option is always there. Never send bulk messages to entire groups in chat messengers. Use a software such as pidgin that can work with multiple messenger ids at the same time, and this would improve the effeciency of your work.

Always use a helpdesk system to provide support, and never let the support techs to be on chat with the clients. Employ seperate staff for support chats, who can communicate with the techs without annoying them and get the result.

Clinets will not be kind when they have got issues on the server. They will always think that they are on the centre of the world and that nothing else matters to them. So, if they speak with that attitude to the support techs, they might get annoyed and their effeciency might reduce. Also, to handle helpdesk mails, it is advisable to have staff who could do that.

Never let your support techs come into direct communication with your clients, since it could mean disaster. Clients are important for you, and so are the support staff. So give importance to both, and have medeiating staff.

Trust me, its the most difficult job in the world. You can transfer cargo, just put them in containers and load them on ships and unload them where ever you want, but backing up with plesk from the old server and moving it to the new server and restoring it there is the most difficult thing that I have ever done.

Personally I have shifted homes, I have shifted offices, shifted my own websites between servers before I started a hosting company, and now I find that all very easy. No matter how many men you have to do the work, you cant work any faster than the server would. Plesk is dead slow, and with all those sites working on the server, and with clients from all over the world, there is no off peek time for your server, you will never make it.

Plesk has a backup restore function, which you need to use from the remote desktop. Create the backup selecting resellers or domains in each task, and once its complete, move the backup file to the new server, and restore it there thru the plesk bakcup resotre function.

Sounds easy? It will, till you see it. I had 12 people working on it for 24 hours a day for nearly 20 days last year to get 1 server migrated. And in the last leg of the migration, the hard disk failed on the old server, and unfortunately, the backup files that we had created were yet to be moved to the new server, and all data was lost.

Just google with indyahozting and you will find out the bad reviews that we had got because of that. But still, we were quick enough to get the new server ready and ask people to upload the backups that they have had. Luckily most of the clients had their backups handy, and they restored all files, except for the few ones, who just decided to write about us on the forums.

Lim appears to be a Bhuddist, and he has got a lot of affiliate marketing tips in his blog. When it comes to internet marketing these days, the guys who write about it, or tell you that they will give you overwhelming results, all demand money, or give you proposals with which they would end up making money.

Therefore, even though I know quite well about internet marketing myself, having run a not so bad web hosting company for the past few years, I still wondered if there could be anyone out there in the blogsphere, who could give a better opinion on a better marketing strategy, or a site promotion strategy, and thats when I found Lim’s blog.

Amazon and Ebay are the best ways to make money thru affiliate marketing. But there are tonnes of others who provide affiliateship, and do pay. It is not advisable to go to websites like affiliatejunktion who just eat up a majority of the affilliate commission that the company pays and pay you a very small part, and its always best to approach the companies that provide afiliateships directly.

Having a look at Lim’s blog would give you a better idea.