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Shared hosting is the most cost-effective way to host your website. So if you’re looking for the cheapest web hosting plans, look no further than shared hosting.

The problem is that so many hosting providers out there offer shared web hosting services.

Trying to find the best shared hosting service can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is, if you don’t know where to look.

I’ve seen so many website owners just pick the first or the cheapest option they find. Then down the road, they end up running into problems with their website. You don’t want this to happen to you.

That’s why I’ve taken the time to research and identify the best shared hosting plans on the market today.

Whether you’re launching a new site from scratch or looking to change hosting providers, you can use this guide to find the best option for your new website.

Here’s a preview of the 8 best shared hosting plans on my list:

Bluehost — Best “unlimited” plans.
SiteGround — Best for scaling your shared hosting plan.
DreamHost — Best cheap shared hosting provider.
InMotion — Best support.
HostGator — Cost-effective with great support.
GoDaddy — Biggest variety of plan options.
A2 Hosting — Best for speed and site migrations.
iPage — Most straightforward and cheap pricing.

Now lets begin!

What is shared web hosting?

Since the majority of you are probably new website owners, let me take a m… Read More

Are you ready for the biggest fundamental change to Facebook advertising in years? Did you know Facebook is making campaign budget optimization (CBO) the default for Facebook ads? In this article, you’ll discover how to use the new CBO setting to create Facebook advertising campaigns and when CBO will become your only option. Facebook Campaign […]

The post Facebook Campaign Budget Optimization: What Marketers Need to Know appeared first on Social Media Marketing | Social Media Examiner.

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Online store owners face the daunting task of increasing conversions day by day. Despite the rapid growth in technology and sales, efficient marketing techniques are still limited.

If you ask any modern-day retailer about the methods they use to market their products, the usual suspects would be PPC (Pay-Per-Click), SEO (Search Engine Optimization), email marketing, content marketing, and whatnot.

One underrated eCommerce marketing technique with a lot of potential is the use of online gifting.

Yes, you read that absolutely right.

Allowing your customers to send and receive gift cards opens the domain of choice to them.

The main reason for the underuse of gift cards on eCommerce stores is the inability to use them effectively. Store owners aren’t sure how to leverage this promising marketing tool.

Throughout this article, I will be walking you through the different ways you could use online gifting in your store. This will help you improve your conversion rate.

Why you should pay attention to online gifting

Just look at these stats:

According to Retail Gift Card Association research, gift card sales are projected to reach $171.5 billion i… Read More

Do you use LinkedIn ads? Wondering if you’re making costly mistakes? In this article, you’ll discover four LinkedIn advertising mistakes and learn how to avoid them. Why Use LinkedIn Ads? In the past, reaching people with your messaging on LinkedIn was almost easy. Compared to quickly growing platforms such as Facebook, the LinkedIn feed was […]

The post 4 LinkedIn Advertising Mistakes and How to Avoid Them appeared first on Social Media Marketing | Social Media Examiner.

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Calculating individual page speed performance metrics can help you to understand how efficiently your site is running as a whole. Since Google uses the speed of a site (frequently measured by and referred to as PageSpeed) as one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank pages, it’s important to have that insight down to the page level.

One of the pain points in website performance optimization, however, is the lack of ability to easily run page speed performance evaluations en masse. There are plenty of great tools like PageSpeed Insights or the Lighthouse Chrome plugin that can help you understand more about the performance of an individual page, but these tools are not readily configured to help you gather insights for multiple URLs — and running individual reports for hundreds or even thousands of pages isn’t exactly feasible or efficient.

In September 2018, I set out to find a way to gather sitewide performance metrics and ended up with a working solution. While this method resolved my initial problem, the setup process is rather complex and requires that you have access to a server.

Ultimately, it just wasn’t an efficient method. Furthermore, it was nearly impossible to easily share with others (especially those outside of UpBuild).

In November 2018, two months after I published this method, Google released version 5 of the PageSpeed Insights API. V5 now uses Lighthouse as its analysis engine and… Read More