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Try to find a theme with shorter pages. Considering your line of business, it would be helpful if customers would have multiple pages with short information that is very direct and to the point. This is not a novelist website where people come to read novels. Also try to make it more mobile friendly as many nowadays access the internet through a mobile device. Good luck.

You should look at the local classifieds instead of internet websites. This website looks like a stock one and I would not trust it.

30 USD per hour for maintenance and ongoing work. When starting a new project it is better to offer a package of a number of hours in which you will do that amount of work that usually rounds up at a lower amount but gets the project going. If you ask top rate from the beginning you might have the customers walk out on you.

Try promoting your website on local website like newspapers/ radio/ blogs and such giving you a big relevance for the area.

Create a XML sitemap to better index your images like hardeep said. But what is the purpose of your better ranking? Do you wish for people to visit your website/ purchase your images/ or just download them? Depending on the ultimate purpose, you can use different strategies. For example if you wish for people to buy your images, put them in online catalogs where people can shop and use your images for a fee. If you do this so that people can visit your website you can put a small watermark on them advising people to visit your website. Google is not everything.

How about generating unique content that can and will be distributed to other websites. Another idea would be to create free websites and tell them that you will be paid by putting a backlink on their website. Or give out free web hosting and the same idea with the backlink.

You can also use a IP based access system, where you can eliminate all countries except the ones you like. This would be more to your liking, but it can also eliminate customers with dynamic IPs that go international (many ISPs buy IPs that are from other countries), and all customers that are using a VPS/VPN/remote server to connect to your website. If I were you and I would only users from a certain area, you can use a captcha system that has a question related to your area and to which foreigners will be unable to answer.

Let's take for example a random country like Ireland. You would need to make a directory of all the tourist destinations, things to see and do, cities and important villages. You can then make a page with a little bit of info and maybe a link for further info to each of the above objects (destinations/cities) and places to eat/ drink/ visit / sleep on the same model that wikitravel uses for each destination. If you want to make tourist packages for your country, you should also look into tours and other stuff (free walking tours) for each city. It is pretty hard to create a website for a country (unless it is a one city country like the Vatican) so instead I would start with just one city and grow from there to encompass the whole country.

Instead of getting a Macbook. What do you think about this one? http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-15-9550-laptop/pd It has everything you will ever need.

Did you manage to find the topic regarding your article? Try to find a link between colors and certain personalities (why some type of people are drawn to similar art/wallpapers/style). Or the fact that the digital art is changing the way we perceive wallpapers (people are mostly using abstract or fantasy wallpapers for their background).

If you are not satisfied why not move to another host? Do you have any kind of legal obligation? There are hundreds of websites offering web hosting of all sizes.

This song is always a good ideea when you start your work day.

Hi Ionut. You seem really well taught regarding webdesign, welcome.

For paid try Zopim which is the industry standard or if you want one that you have total control over, you can try phpLive!. You pay it once then you set it up on your own server and do not have to worry about anything.

If you say you are a good programmer, most likely you are not. If others say it, you might have a change of being. But it depends on what you good or bad, there are a lot of grey areas in between.

What you pay is what you get. So do not think that by paying 200£ you will get a good product. IF it was so good, he would not sell it in the first place.

Is the CD, CD-RW or CD that can be written only once? If rewritable, then maybe the CD has reached its end of life.

Even though it is an industry pariah, for a beginner, I think PayPal is the best option. That compared with Bitcoin, which is pretty popular everywhere, can give you a starting point. Afterwards you can migrate to bigger payments gateways, such as Skrill or Paymentwall, but I think they require more verification. I would recommend also 2checkout.

Thanks for the list but is it a little outdated. Try using Social Media Platforms aimed at some international markets such as VK or or Renren.

I realize that a few months have passed since the original question, but maybe this answer can help others. I recommend using Amazon SES with your hosting in order to deliver e-mails without the fear of them getting classified as spam. It is quite a good way to use marketing e-mails and it is pretty cheap also. I think around 1$ per 10.000 e-mails. That would avoid some unpleasant spam markers attached to your e-mails by default just by the sheer volume of it.

As far as I can see, they have very bad reviews on the interwebs. What were you thinking going to a host this bad? But trying to limit the damage, it is very bad for a webhost to request money because your data was hacked. You have a few options if you want to recover your data: 1) Pay up, get your data and that is the end of it. 2) Pay up, get your data and ask for a refund. I would doubt this can work. 3) Pay a one time fee to get your data. If they can not keep you as a potential customer, you can try to sugarcoat them with a good review or something positive for their PR. If they are not complete idiots, I do not see what potential harm can giving your data back bring. If it quite clear that you are not willing to go back or pay the abusive fees. 4) Try to reason with them and explain them that you just want to your data back and for them to suggest a way to get that. Unfortunately, because is your data on their equipment, if they are not a very good webhosting company, they can limit your access to your data and you have no power over it. That why you should be very careful where you host your data.

I like puzzles but I think your website is a little misleading. I expected to see more interactive content, maybe some flash content to solve them on your website ( there a lot of embedded flash content which you can link to your website without any copyright infringements). Also the content is pretty weak, for example take this. http://www.puzzlereview.com/marathon You could make like a blog post with 100 types of this riddles. Also the fact that I have to give 5 clicks for each exercise does not help your cause, and the fact that it opens the tab page into a new page also is very unfriendly to the user experience. I would hire a content creator, or someone who could do that in his/her spare time, and also someone to increase the web experience for the average user. You can find many communities of enthusiasts online, for example one here https://www.reddit.com/r/jigsawpuzzles Afterwards I would invest a little into advertising or maybe giving away some prizes, and then advertising this contents. A lot of people are suckers for free stuff and will enter solely for this reason, but I think it can still help your cause. TL:DR Invest in more content, also try to make it more simple for someone to navigate your website.