Velnetweb UK web hosting review

UK web hosting by Velnet UK

One among the various sites of Velnet, this site VelnetWeb.co.uk has set itself the objective of providing a wide range of internet services at very affordable rates for its customers. The services provided are registration of domain names, hosting of web sites, web site design and ecommerce applications. With many businesses looking for a stable platform on the internet, this site is well placed given its data center location within the UK with adequate bandwidth facilities. They are also well equipped to provide free blog solutions.

Services offered

a) Domain registration and web hosting

They offer free domain name registration as part of their web hosting package service. You can also transfer the current domain name or go for the registration of alternative UK based domain names like .uk.com.org.uk, .me.uk and so on.

Velnetweb offers low cost web hosting, their packages starts from £29 per year. The basic package is called Velnet starter, it contains everything you need to get a basic website online including MySQL database and PHP script.

They also have other more advanced hosting packages which they have categorized under:

- Velnet Basic
- Velnet Business
- Velnet Premium

All the plans have excellent basic features with the Velnet Business and Velnet Premium offering more by way of hosting space, bandwidth, POP3 email accounts and data transfer.

b) Ecommerce Services

Velnetweb provides ecommerce services to help small businesses run an online store, they use Boss Cart shopping cart which is a time tested platform and is provided with any web hosting package for only £99. The ecommerce site is also integrated with eBay to help you push your products faster for sale. The software is powered with PHP and MySQL databases ensure that the whole process of running the online store becomes simple.

c) Web design

A comprehensive web design package is provided that includes the design of the site, domain name that is free of cost for a year and no cost search engine submissions.

Strength

* Different service package plans that are very affordable
* Web design packages that include free search engine submission
* Simple to use ecommerce software
* Quick launch of online store with customisation also possible
* Integration with eBay and inbuilt Google Base connector
* Secure Comodo SSL certificates

Support provided

* Online customer support chat system in place
* 24×7 ticket support system also in place
* Free pre designed templates for easy start up of online store
* Excellent tutorial assistance for those interested to know about web hosting

What do customers say?

Customers are very satisfied with the current services and are in fact demanding more from the company. New hosting package plans that would feature reseller plans for hosting on the web with control panels, bandwidth that need not be metered, quicker support systems, management of dedicated servers and high quality webmaster scripts are being planned by the company.

Google Commerce Search – helping your customer finding what they are looking for

Haven optimised your website, spend a lot of time building quality back links to get you organic search engine ranking to the top, you perhaps also use PPC to drive targeted traffic and may even use affiliate programme to get even more customers, now the customers are all on your ecommerce site, how do you ensure they find what they are looking for quickly so that you do not lose them? A good easy to navigate site will help with some of the problem, a search feature will be welcomed by your users but how about a very powerful search feature from the company recognised as the Search Engine; Google. That is exactly what Google has just launched; it’s called Commerce Search.

Google Commerce Search unlike most of Google’s products is not free, that is because it was not designed for small companies, its and enterprise tool for the larger ecommerce websites. The ultimate goal of Google commerce search it to reduce bounce rates, here are some of the ways Google says Commerce Search will help online retail ecommerce sites:
· Enable visitors to find the right products faster
· Filter results by category, price, brand or other attributes
· Provide user-friendly spelling options and synonyms
· Increase website conversions and sales
· Boost or promote chosen products within search results
· Deploy search solution in days, and scale effortlessly
· Customize, track, and optimise performance
One company that is already using Google Commerce search is the USA arm of the legendary German sandals company Birkenstock, he was quoted on Google Commerce Search site as saying “With Google Commerce Search, customers more easily find the specific products they’re looking for, and we’ve seen dramatic conversion improvement since implementation.

This tool will probably not be ideal for most of the audience of this blog but if you run an online retail website with vast inventory, implementing Google Commerce Search may help you convert more customers.

Win a shopping cart worth £199

One of the ways some online traders have been combating the recession is through additional orders pouring in from new customers outside UK who usually do not buy from UK because of the strong pound. Since the start of the recession, the pound sterling has lost about 30% of its value, at one point it was virtually on par with Euro, making products and services in UK more affordable to EU countries, this lead to some online traders getting additional revenue of up to 35% from the EU.

If you are not already selling online, how about the opportunity for you to win your own ecommerce shopping cart that could help you start selling online within a few hours? UK Webmaster Forum, Webmaster server is offering to give one lucky winner a Boss Cart Premium shopping cart. There is no long-winded entry form, you just need to register at Webmaster Server, visit the win a shopping cart thread, update it and you could be the winner.

It is highly recommended that you visit the forum and win a copy of Boss Cart and start taking advantage or the online retail opportunity that savvy ecommerce merchants have been taking to increase their sale in this recession.

Google Checkout store gadget – shopping cart from Google

Given the fact that Google has been sticking its fingers in every possible pie online, its not grate surprise when Google announce the launch of their shopping cart which they call Google checkout store gadget. Google has been know to lead in online technology but with this new entry level shopping cart they are following. Google checkout store gadget and in fact the concept of Google Checkout is not unlike Paypal and PayPal shopping cart, where Google try to be different is the simplicity and ease of use.

In Google Checkout store gadget API, it is claimed you can have and online store setup and running in under five minutes without any need for coding or technical knowledge.

Google Checkout store gadget as you may have guessed run with Google Checkout so you cannot use it without signing up for Google Checkout first. The process is fairly simple once you have Google Checkout account out of the say. You just list your products in a Google spreadsheet, and then embed your new store in a website. Small, medium, and large sizes are available.

The shopping cart which is still in its beta stages is not robust enough to compare with established shopping carts online, its just away of getting more business for Google Checkout and of course other Google applications.

If you are looking for a robust ecommerce shopping cart software, application like Boss Cart its what you need, apart from giving you the flexibility of using any payment gateways you need, its fully fledged, tried and tested.

eCommerce the only safe haven in recession?

The unprecedented turmoil in the British economy has seen ‘safe’ institutions like Banks nationalised (another word for saying administration?), picture of UK High street landscape redrawn with names that has been there for decades such as Woolworth and Virgin Mega stores omitted from the new picture.  Also for the first time in over a decade, UK unemployment has reached and exceeded two million with another one million people expected to be out of work within the next 12 months.

Whatever sector of the economy you look things seem to be on a downward trend with the exception of ecommerce. Online shopping not only bucks the downward trends on the High street but it did it with double digits; 13%. The latest figures about the e-tail sector released by online retail research group IMRG Capgemini. IMRG added that  February online shopping fell 11% from the month before, the monthly drop was down to enhanced sales in January, which was the result of  continuing post-Christmas sales.
The report also said that  online sales of beers, wines and spirits were up 30% on January and a surge of sales was recorded  in the few days before Valentine’s Day on 14 February.

The increase in online sales is expected to keep bucking the trend for the rest of this year, it was claimed in some quarters that online sales growth would have been much stronger if the rest of the economy is not as weak at it currently is.

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