Affinity Web Hosting: Powerful Web Hosting
Solutions
Affinity Internet Inc., headquartered in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, started out in 1996. Today,
they’re one of the leading web services companies
that help business succeed on the Internet. They now
serve more than 200,000 businesses worldwide. They
do this through a combination of technology,
creativity, and innovation. Services include every
aspect of building and operating an effective online
presence: professional web development and design,
results-oriented online advertising solutions,
powerful hosting, and ecommerce applications.
Affinity Internet Inc. also owns and operates
several industry leading web and application hosting
brands, including ValueWeb, Gate.com, WinSave,
BigStep, SiteHosting, and SkyNetWeb. Some awards and
certifications they’ve received over the years
include: 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, 2003 PC
Magazines Editors Choice: Best eCommerce Solution,
2000 PC Magazine's Editors Choice: Best eCommerce
Solution, Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Member
of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and is a Google
Certified Company, to name a few.
Affinity makes it possible for small business to
build their online presence the way they want. If
it’s a hands-on approach their customers are looking
for, Affinity makes that possible. They offer a
number of powerful tool that help you accomplish
your online goals.
Affinity offers two main solutions for customers:
ValueWeb for small business owners and Gate.com for
web professionals. Affinity’s flagship brand,
ValueWeb, is a leader in ecommerce hosting solutions
for small business owners. This is great for people
that are looking for professional support and
guidance as well as powerful tools and services at
their disposal.
Gate.com is designed to meet the needs of web
professionals that need high performance web hosting
with plenty of options and flexibility – at an
affordable price. With Gate.com’s offerings, it’s
possible for web professionals at any skill level to
add advanced applications to any web site.
Along with web hosting services, Affinity also
offers extensive online marketing services. They
have a team of marketing professionals that tailor a
marketing plan for your business’ specific needs;
whether that’s selling products online, promoting a
service, generating leads, or simply increasing
brand awareness.
In addition to online marketing, Affinity can also
help boost the traffic to your web sites. Their Pay
for Performance Search Marketing also helps to
generate leads. This service includes: a
comprehensive keyword portfolio targeted to your
customers, compelling advertisements on Google and
Yahoo!, Flexible monthly spending amounts, and
weekly performance reports, plus more.
Affinity’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services
help you maximize your marketing efforts with an
analysis of your present page rank, market research
and selection of key words best suited for your
business’s products and services, continual
optimization of your web site which keeps it ranking
high with search engines like Google and Yahoo!, and
integration of a Google Site Map with your web site
which will increase your Google search results.
For those of you who like to want to put it all
together yourselves, there’s the Do-It-Yourself, Pay
for Performance Search Marketing option as well.
This will help you generate leads and boost sales by
bringing more visitors to your site. You’ll be able
to promote your business on Google’s and Yahoo!’s
network, determine your marketing budget and get as
many visitors as possible within that budget,
quickly set up your account with step-by-step
wizards, and manage all of your paid search
advertising from one location.
Finally, Affinity has a full-service ecommerce
offering as well. They boast having the most
ecommerce experience of any web services company.
Last year their web sites sold over $500 million
worth of goods and services. Their ecommerce
solutions include: help with designing and
developing your online store (so that it is
aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate), help
implementing your shopping cart within your website
(so that it is easy to use for your customers),
credit card processing (so that your customer can
have an easy and convenient way to pay you), help
integrating an affiliate program into your marketing
strategy, online marketing services and web site
traffic analysis tools, and around the clock expert
technical support.