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To help our clients improve website visibility in search engines and increase website traffic, we have recently teamed up with the leading SEO service provider Attracta. Most of you may have already noticed the SEO Tools section in your hosting account cPanel. There you will find all of the tools and services you need to get more of your site listed in Google and the other major search engines, with improved search ranking. And what is more – all tools are available for free!

How does it work:

The key to a successful website is being easily found on Google, Yahoo and all other major search engines. These search engines need to index your web pages and like the overall quality of your site, so that they can give it higher rankings and more visibility.

Attracta automatically generates a Sitemap of your website and pings the major search engines when any new pages are added, to ensure that everything on your website is indexed by the search engines – including pages that can’t be found during their normal crawling process. If your website is new, with our tools it will appear in Google search results in less than 24 hours! If your site is already in Google, you will get even more pages listed, and improve your page rank in days.

There are also tools to give you stats on common errors that can affect your search engine optimization efforts – such as broken links analysis, as well as the site’s current standing in line with the Google Guidelines for improved search traffic.

Using our new SEO tools is critical if your website:

1. Is new, has low page rank or few links to it;

2. Has frequent updates, or pages that aren’t easily discovered by search engines;

3. Has dynamic content, JavaScript, Flash, content in images or videos.

The regular price of the whole pack is $59.40 per year, but thanks to our recent partnership- all SiteGround shared customers get to use the tools for free- the new section in cPanel is already available to everyone!

Getting started is easy:

• Log in to your SiteGround Customer Area
• Go to my Accounts section
• Click on the Go button for the cPanel account you wish to access
• Browse to the new SEO Tools section

Good luck!

Dima
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During the last few months SiteGround has gone through a serious reformation related to the SiteBuilder solution we provide to our customers. The changes were triggered by some copyright issues, which our primary SiteBuilder provider SiteMagix was unable to handle professionally. This situation forced us to take decisive actions and find an alternative solution, despite the high costs of changing such a vital part of our service. The end result of our efforts is a better site building tool for our customers and an entirely new Make Website package.

Our New Website Wizard

After an extensive research we have chosen Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder to be the new Website Wizard for our customers. The new solution was chosen after it was tested by people with different levels of web proficiency together with 4 more tools preselected by SiteGround. The Parallels Sitebuilder has shown the best results from this test in several areas: the overall outlook of its templates was evaluated high by our test group and the tool was found to be easy to use, and yet with a quite wide functionality. The best rated features of the wizard are:

WYSIWYG Editor

The editing of the website content is very easy with the fully-featured What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor. It allows managing text and images without any HTML knowledge. It is as simple as using any of the popular favourite office applications.

Drag-n-drop Modules

The drag-n-drop feature supported by the Website Wizard allows including multiple additional features and functions to your website only using your mouse. For example, one can simply drag a voting poll to the page being edited and it will work flawlessly!

Variety of Page Types

The Website Wizard has a broad variety of pre-defined page types that one can easily add to the website (home, about us, blog, contact form, etc.). They are conveniently organized in groups, based on the type of page one is making.

The Make Website Package

The new Website Wizard is also used as a foundation of the latest hosting service we launched recently – our Make Website package. With this package we aim to accommodate the needs of the users without previous experience in creating websites. The new package includes everything you need for creating your first website without any specific design or development knowledge. Apart from our new Website Wizard our new package includes all the basic elements for establishing an online presence such as free domain registration, professional hosting with 24/7 support and even website promotion materials.

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We are happy to announce to our Joomla customers that we have another exciting addition to our Joomla hosting package – a collection of in-house developed Joomla Extensions. Studying the requests from thousands of Joomla users hosted on our servers we came to the conclusion that there is a great demand for quality extensions able to improve the basic Joomla functionality.

Our team has researched the most desired additions to Joomla and then developed the following Joomla extensions based on the needs of our Joomla customers. Below we will present shortly our Joomla extensions. For download and full info you ca refer to our Joomla Extensions page.

jHackGuard
Like all open source applications Joomla applications are subjected of constant hacking attacks. Our security specialists have created a security plugin that will prevent the majority of those attacks. It will guard your script from SQL Injections, Remote URL/File Inclusions, Remote Code Executions and XSS Based attacks.

jPageTranslator
With the progress of the Google Translate project, making an international website has become easier than ever! Add this extension to your Joomla website and your visitors will be able to browse it on all the languages supported by the Google Translate script.

jAddAnalytics
Nowadays evaluating your website performance with Google Analytics has become a necessity for each web master that wants to be successful. Just paste the ID from your Analytics account into the appropriate field and the script will be automatically added to all of your pages.

jShareEasy
jShareEasy is a Joomla 1.5 module that allows your visitors to share your articles on Social Networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious and Google bookmarks. With this module your visitors will be able to share your content with a single click and thus increase the popularity of your site.

jGeoIPFilter
We have created a module that allows you to perform different actions on your website depending on the geographic location of your visitors. For example, this module allows you to redirect all visitors from the UK to the English version of your website and all visitors from Germany – to the German version of your pages.

jNoRightClick
SiteGround has created the jNoRightClick extension to prevent your visitors from using the right mouse button on your Joomla website, which is an effective way to protect your texts and photos from being copied without authorization.

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We are proud to present the latest release to our WordPress free themes gallery. Our brand new WordPress theme Universe is finally here ready to be downloaded and used. It is optimized for a great performance with WordPress 3.0 and provides a unique set of features that you would hardly find in another freely distributed theme.

One of the greatest advantages of the themes is that it works perfectly not only with the standard plain WordPress installation, but supports a wide range of plugins. It also provides a number of additional functionalities that will make the website of anyone, who chooses to use it, look and feel professional. Check the Universe Demo if you want if you want to play around with the theme. You can also dowload it from our Free WordPress Themes Gallery. Below you will find a list with some of the great features of Universe.

Widget Ready Sidebar
Most of the free WordPress themes have only the basic WordPress elements designed. If you want to add additional items, you have to style them which requires a lot of time and knowledge in CSS and HTML. Universe, however, is widget-ready which means that if you want to add a widget to your sidebar all you have to do is to drag it into it. It will look great on the theme front end no matter whether it is a calendar, categories list or a search box. Check the demo of the theme in which we have added almost all possible widgets that come with WordPress 3.0.

125×125 banners ready (using WP125)

WP125 has become one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Basically it allows you to display a preset number of banners 125px per 125px in size on your sidebar. We have taken into consideration that this plugin is used by more and more bloggers and have made sure that it will look fantastic if you decide to install and enable it on your website running Universe. Note that this plugin works best if you choose to display an even number of banners in the right column. Advertising and winning money with your website has never been easier!

prettyPhoto lightbox (jQuery based)
prettyPhoto lightbox is a jQuery based script that handles the visualization of your photos on your website. We have added prettyPhoto into the Universe theme in order to provide you with fast and easy way to display your photos in style. All you have to do is to add rel=”prettyPhoto” to your image and it will be handled by the prettyPhoto script.

Custom 404 Not Found page
In order to provide you with a professional design we have taken into consideration every little bit of work that most of the free themes out there are missing including a custom 404 Page Not Found page. We have implemented a custom 404 page that will look stylish and in the same time has search functionality that the visitors landed on it can use to actually find your content.

Dropdown Menu Support
Dropdown menus have became a necessity for all modern design layouts. Since more and more websites use submenus and subcategories we have designed a submenu that will perfectly serve your needs. If you want to have more than one submenu level this is not a problem too, the menu supports multiple subcategories.

CSS3 Enhanced
Universe benefits from the latest innovations CSS3 has brought to the world wide web. We have used it in order to make your blog using Universe look even better. Last but not least, we have taken in consideration different browsers and we have made sure that the theme looks great on all the modern browsers.

SEO Optimized
The Universe template is designed with Search Engines in mind. Its output is completely valid according to W3C. In addition, the code is structured so search engines will index your content in the best possible way. Last but not least, it supports all the SEO plugins that you may want to include into your WordPress site.

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We are happy to introduce the newly designed section in our Customer area  – Exclusive Support Services. As we were actively adding new services over the last months and this process will continue, it was necessary to create this new section for easier navigation and better customer experience. The new design also comes together with the launch of some brand new services. The new section wraps up our exclusive support services in 4 categories :

1. Website Promotion Services

This category includes whole bunch of  services to help you make your website more popular and attractive and generate more traffic. Here you can find the brand new services like Search Engines Submission, Google Analytics Integration, Google Webmasters Tools Integration, SiteMap Generation, as well as the already popular FREE Marketing Credits, provided by SiteGround in association with MySpace MyAds and BidVertiser.

2. Script Assistance Section

Under the Script Assistance category you can request extra development work if your website uses any of the open source applications we have long experience in supporting. You can request a script installation, script migration, application upgrade, application integration, post custom support requests and many more. Now you can more easily request professional script assistance and take advantage of the high-level of expertise our professional tech agents have in supporting script applications. It is an ideal solutions for those who want some custom work on their websites but don’t want to spend thousands on hiring their own developer.

3. Website Security Section

Apart from the other previously available extras such as Spam Killer and Anti-Virus protection and SSH access, this section includes both Standard and Advanced Malicious code cleaning services, which we are offering widely as extra features for the first time. The process includes a full security audit of your hosting account for vulnerable applications or components and removal of any harmful or suspicious code for greater account security.

4. Website Design Services

The Web Design Section is the new home of our exclusive design services. You can brush up the look of your website with one of our extremely popular web design templates, request an installation of your own website theme or get a professional advice from our designers on a custom solution.

We have also added a special Exclusive services section for our dedicated solutions clients. Their Exclusive support section is extended with one more category of services, offered exclusively to accommodate the special needs of clients with dedicated servers. They are available as extra services to the default setup of the server to add extra power and enhance website performance.

To check out the brand new features and look of our Exclusive support section, just log in to your Customer area by following the link below:

Exclusive Support Services for SiteGround Clients

Dima
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