I received an email from Yahoo yesterday telling me that the program that allows us to offer a $25 Yahoo PPC Credit is ending on 9/30. Since Bing will be powering Yahoo Search Engine Marketing, Yahoo advertisers will now be sent to Bing’s AdCenter. Regardless of the reason for the program ending, you only have until the end of the month to take advantage of this free offer. Get your free advertising while you still can!

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The A2 Hosting Newsletter for September 2010 has been posted! This month’s topics include:

• More Staff – Improved Response Times
• Snag Your Yahoo Ad Credits While You Can!
• Marketing Mojo – Your Website’s Sitelinks
• Developer Depot – It’s Password Improvement Time!

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Ahoy Landlubbers! Tis Pirate month at A2 Hostin’.  A2 Hostin’ be offerin’ 30% off durin’ t’ moon o’ September in honor o’ Talk Like A Pirate Day taki’g place on 9/19. Break out me rum! Shiver me timbers, what a way to save on some hosting booty. All ye need t’ do is use the coupon code ARRR at t’ checkout. This coupon be expirin’ 9/30/2010, so make sure t’ get ye lootin’ in.

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Top 10 Hosting is looking for your A2 Hosting reviews! This top 10 hosting directory site has searched out the best 10 hosting companies around and have ranked them from 1-10. It turns out that A2 Hosting came out on top. This is great news! With our hosting services leading the way, http://the-top-ten-hosting.com wants to hear from and share the testimonials of even more A2 Hosting customers. Please help them out!

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Network Mapper, a free security auditing tool, has compiled an image of the favicons for the most visited sites on the web. Each favicon is sized proportionally “to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon.” Since Google is the #1 most visited site on the web, it has the largest favicon in the compilation. Facebook has the 2^nd largest favicon because it is the 2^nd most visited site on the web etc.

You can view the favicon compilation here and search amongst the 288,945 sites that are included in the compilation. Is your site included? A2 Hosting is!

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The WHIR published an article last week offering tips on how to choose web hosting for online businesses. I thought I’d make everyone’s life easier and show you, based on the WHIR’s tips, why you should choose A2 Hosting for your online business hosting.

1.)    Make sure the web host has plenty of shopping carts to choose between. Now we have plenty of options for you to choose between, but probably our most popular shopping cart solution is our Magento Hosting. Did you know that you can install Magento with just one click?

2.)    You need a way to accept payment from your customers. The easiest way to accept payment is by adding Google Checkout to your site. Adding Google Checkout to your site is simple and affordable. Just copy and paste some HTML code into your site. The code can be found in your Google Checkout Merchant account.

3.)    Choose a host that offers at least a 99.5% uptime guarantee. We’ll do you .4% better with our 99.9% uptime guarantee.

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Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Internet. According to this year’s list compiled by McAfee, searches for Cameron Diaz have the highest likelihood of scammers luring you to their sites and nailing you with malicious content. Apparently 10% of Cameron Diaz sites contain risky material. Yikes. Be careful Diaz fans, especially with her screensaver sites having a 19% risk factor.

Rounding out the top 10:

1.) Cameron Diaz
2.) Julia Roberts
3.) Jessica Biel (last year’s McAfee “Winner”)
4.) Giselle Bundchen
5.) Brad Pitt
6.) Adriana Lima
7.) TIED – Jennifer Love Hewitt & Nicole Kidman
8.) Tom Cruise
9.) TIED – Heidi Klum & Penelope Cruz
10.) Anna Paquin

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A2 Hosting customers are launching tons of new WordPress themes everyday. So it should come as no surprise that our WordPress Hosting service is one of our most popular. If you’re looking to launch a new WordPress site, I thought I’d share this list of 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes. You can’t beat free!

Our WordPress Hosting service couldn’t be easier to use. You can install WordPress 3.0 in about 15 seconds thanks to Softaculous. Than all you have to do is download the theme of your choice and upload it into your WordPress control panel. That should take no more than 60 seconds.

Let us know if you end up trying any of themes. We’d love to see your new site!

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Google released some good news on Saturday for organizations and websites with a number of closely related competitors. Apparently Google has changed their algorithm to show more results from searches “that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain”.

Instead of Google potentially showing results from your closest competitors when someone specifically “Googles you”, additional results from your site are bound to push down those results. Read more about Google’s algorithm change.

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Yes it’s true. A2 Hosting is now paying $75/sale on the ShareASale Affiliate Network! Sign up today!

We were paying a 50% commission, which averaged to a payout of about $6/sale. We have basically increased our conversion rate by over 1200%! We have also implemented a $5/sale second tier rate. So tell your friends about our program!

Now is a great time to add A2 Hosting marketing material to your website if you haven’t gotten around to it yet. It’s also a perfect time to ramp up your advertising of A2 Hosting (if you’re already promoting us) to take advantage of our new, massive commission rate.

If you have any questions or special requests, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to paying you $75 for each customer you refer to us!

If you really want to ramp up your affiliate commissions, join our in-house A2 Hosting Affiliate Program. We pay $85/sale with this program. Some affiliates prefer to join programs in an affiliate network. Other affiliates want to maximize their earnings. Make your choice!

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