Need SEO Help? Pear Analytics to Release Beta Soon

San Antonio-based tech startup and ServerBeach customer, Pear Analytics, is releasing a private beta of their re-engineered search engine optimization software, SiteJuice, sometime after the July 4^th holiday.

SiteJuice is a simple and fast way to analyze each page of your website to ensure that it is search friendly.  The software is not feature-overload, but rather focuses on the handful of things that are important to organic search.

“We try to find simple and actionable things that you can fix yourself in an afternoon by providing clear instructions,” says Ryan Kelly, founder and CEO.

Kelly says that by analyzing each page of your website, you can target long-tail keywords and drive incremental free traffic to your site, which can be multiplied by tens, hundreds, or even thousands of pages.

Pear Analytics also designed and developed the free SEO analysis tool on the ServerBeach homepage.  The widget analyzes one page at a time, where SiteJuice analyzes multiple pages at once, and will eventually allow you to save your history and track your progress.

Pear is offering ServerBeach customers exclusive “front of the line” access to the beta by getting an exclusive first-preview before the first wave is released.  Sign up for the beta here.

Show us Your ServerBeach Badge, Get a Free T-Shirt!

Limited Edition ServerBeach By Geeks for Geeks "The Brain" T-shirt.

ServerBeach would like to ask you for your help in reaching more geeks on the net. Place one of our Beach badges on your website(s), and get a free limited edition ServerBeach T-Shirt mailed to you! Just copy and paste the code from one of our badges or banners onto your website, and send me a link to your site as proof. That’s it! We encourage you to place the badge or banner in your website footer and/or sidebar.

Badges with code can be found here: http://www.serverbeach.com/resources/badges.php

Email Charnell at cpugsley@peer1.com or send a tweet to @ServerBeach on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/serverbeach) with a link to your site showing the badge, and we’ll get a T-shirt sent to you right away!

ServerBeach Attends WordCamp SF 09 & TWTRCON 09

A few of our employees spent this past weekend in San Francisco to attend WordCamp SF 09 and TWTRCON 09. What a busy weekend it was. WordCamp SF had another great turnout this year with another round of awesome folks to speak at the event.

PEER 1 - ServerBeach Staff at WordCamp SF 09

ServerBeach is a proud sponsor of WordCamps and has sponsored the following 2009 WordCamps:

WordCamp SF 09

WordCamp Chicago

WordCamp Dallas.

Be sure to stop by our table at these events and say hello to our staff and pick up some cool “Beach” swag.

On Sunday, I attended the first ever TWTRCON 09 conference in San Francisco. Being the Community Evangelist for PEER 1 – ServerBeach and utilizing Twitter for both company and personal use, I was excited to see what this conference was about. I would just like to state that I was completely blown away with the entire event. Not only was it well organized, there were some major companies who spoke at the event – Guy Kawasaki – Alltop, Ed Terpening – Wells Fargo, Porter Gale – Virgin America, Jeremiah Owyang – Forrester Research, Richard Brewer-Hay – eBay Inc, representatives from Carl’s Jr, Comcast, PR Newswire, the Phoenix Suns and so many others. View the entire list of speakers here: http://twtrcon.com/

Talk about information overload. These companies spoke candidly about how they used Twitter for business and what they’ve learned along the way. I spent the day listening, learning, and of course…taking pictures, which you can view on our PEER 1 Flickr page.

I’d like to share a few things that I took away from TWTRCON –

* Marketing – Influence (was): attracting attention to yourself. Influence (is): providing attention and value to others.

* How to measure Twitter success: Engagement. New relationships. Meet customers. Brand loyalty. Fun.

* Your company account needs to have a personality. Create your voice. Engage with personality.

* Twitter is dramatically changing era of top-down management of corporate communications, in real time.

and finally – “News no longer breaks…it tweets.”

If you’re already on Twitter, please give us a follow and let’s connect. We’re @ServerBeach and @PEER1. Which reminds me of another thing that I learned at TWTRCON – be totally transparent, both personally and professionally. With that note – I’m Charnell Pugsley, the Community Evangelist for PEER 1 – ServerBeach and @charnellpugsley on Twitter. Give me a follow, I’ll follow back and we’ll connect!

View pictures of our weekend of events in San Francisco – WordCamp SF 09 pictures & TWTRCON 09 pictures.

ServerBeach and SXSW 2009

ServerBeach returned to SXSW this year in Austin, Texas and it was another great success! We had the opportunity to exhibit in the Interactive Festival and meet many of our PEER 1 and ServerBeach customers, not to mention make new friends.

This year we did it a little different. As you know from the last couple of posts on our blog, ServerBeach tag-teamed the event with Lisa Sabin-Wilson. We held a Twitter Trivia contest daily for SXSW attendees, which required them to bring the answer to the trivia question that we “tweeted” to Lisa at the booth and if the answer was correct, Lisa gave them an autographed WordPress for Dummies book. With Lisa with us, an iPod giveaway, cool, free swag, our event there was a total success and we were listed as one of the “Top 10 Companies Most Discussed on Twitter at South by Southwest“!

Head on over to our company Flickr account to view all of our pictures taken at SXSW 2009. If you were there this year and visited us at our booth, please comment and let us know! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter – @ServerBeach to keep up with what’s happening at The Beach and to play along in upcoming contests!

ServerBeach is on MY Shirt…and on my SXSW Schedule!

Who is on whose shirt??!!

Well, I figured it was time to give ServerBeach some much needed t-shirt love – ServerBeach is on MY shirt today!  I want to thank ServerBeach for giving me the opportunity to hijack their blog today, not only to totally nab Charnell’s t-shirt love idea…but to make a few exciting announcements leading up to SXSW Interactive 2009.

Let me introduce myself:  I am Lisa Sabin-Wilson and I am the author of WordPress For Dummies, and the creative director of E.Webscapes Design Studio.  I’m really excited to announce that ServerBeach and I are joining forces this weekend at the SXSW Interactive Festival and bringing you some really COOL schwag at the ServerBeach exhibit booth!

I am appearing at the ServerBeach booth on Saturday, March 14 from 1-4pm, Sunday, March 15 from 1-4pm and Monday, March 16 from 1-3pm.  I’m really looking forward to seeing my good friends from ServerBeach again, after the fun we had hanging out at the BlogWorld Expo event in Vegas last November!

But!  I’m doing so much more than merely hanging out with them at SXSW – if you are headed to SXSW, stopping by the ServerBeach booth is a MUST DO for you…and here’s why:

1. WordPress For Dummies: ServerBeach will be giving away free copies of WordPress For Dummies at their booth, and as a bonus – I will be present in the times stated above, to do book signings.  So stop by the ServerBeach booth and pick up your FREE autographed copy of WordPress For Dummies.  Already have a copy?  No problem – stop by the booth to say hi … I love to meet my readers, and I’ll sign your copy!
2. WordPress Q&A: During the times I will be at the ServerBeach booth, I am also available to do a quickie WordPress Q&A if you have any specific questions on how to use WordPress on your site or blog.  I’ll have my laptop ready with a clean install of WordPress open, ready for your questions.
3. Premium themes, anyone?? I do a lot of custom design work for WordPress users over at E.Webscapes – – for SXSW I am doing 5 free themes for WordPress users – available ONLY to SXSW attendees who stop by the ServerBeach exhibit booth on March 14-16, 2009.  Here’s what you do:  stop by the booth and ask for the super secret link to Lisa’s WordPress themes they are giving away.  That’s it!   (the themes are free and completely GPL).   (ServerBeach just might give these themes away to the general public after SXSW is over – that is totally up to them, but for now, they’re available from the ServerBeach exhibit booth at SXSW exclusively.)

I’m very excited to be working with ServerBeach at SXSW – their company philosophy, targeted at geeks like me, strikes a chord, as a customer – and their involvement and interest in the WordPress project is always a sure and straight way to my heart!  As a very satisfied customer of their self-managed hosting services for almost 6 years, this was an opportunity I could not let pass me by. Are you planning on being in Austin for SXSW?  I would truly love it if you’d stop by the ServerBeach exhibit booth to say hi!

If you’re attending SXSW and have your profile set up at my.sxsw.com – you can add me here.  Otherwise, follow me on Twitter – @LisaSabinWilson – I’m sure I’ll be all a twitter about it!

PEER 1 Twitter Trivia Winners

Recently we announced the PEER 1 Quick Hits Twitter contest and we’re happy to announce the winners to date:

Twitter Trivia Day One: PEER 1 Million Hits Video – “Slacker“

Flip Video Winner: @geekgiant

PEER 1 Sumo Wrestler T-Shirt: @sapphirelaninja

Twitter Trivia Day Two: PEER 1 Million Hits Video – “Washroom“

Flip Video Winner: @garannm

PEER 1 Sumo Wrestler T-Shirt: @donred

Twitter Trivia Day Three: PEER 1 Million Hits Video – “Meeting“

Flip Video Winner: @KelByrd

PEER 1 Sumo Wrestler T-Shirt: @the_real_mkb

Congratulations to all of you who have won so far! PEER 1 will be having two more contests at 12:30pm CST (10:30PST/1:30EST) on March 2nd and March 3rd. Follow me (@charnellpugsley) on Twitter for your chance to win!

Million Hits Twitter Contest

Recently we made a blog post about the PEER 1 Million Hits campaign and shared 3 humorous videos. The response to our campaign has been phenominal! To continue on, we’ve decided to take it one step further and create a “Million Hits” Twitter contest. Do you have a Twitter account?

Sign up for Twitter today if you don’t already have an account and if you do, check out our contest details here: http://www.peer1.com/blog/?p=183

Are You Ready for a Million Hits? PEER 1 Ad Campaign

If you’ve visited our parent company PEER 1’s home page lately, you’ve seen the arrows. If you’ve dropped by our Facebook page, you’ve seen the sumo wrestler. Today, PEER 1 is proud to launch a series of online video commercials that ask: “Is your business ready for a million hits?”

All three ads were produced in a single high-energy day by the tremendously talented people at Rethink Communications.

Why would we make videos where we bury someone in thousands of rubbery arrows? Well, for one thing it’s pretty funny. But at the same time, we want to make a serious point about IT preparedness. PEER 1 and ServerBeach are proud to offer reliable hosting to all types of companies, whether they get a million website hits in a month, in a day or even in an hour. Because we’re a financially sound company, we’re positioned to support our customers through challenging economic times. We have a solid foundation, a great group of diverse customers and a proven business model. We’re confident we offer the safest, most scalable IT hosting environment for businesses running an online presence and we want to let every IT professional and business operator know that through this campaign.

We are also unveiling PEER 1’s new tagline “Fully scalable hosting solutions” that will appear below the logo from now on. The tagline speaks to PEER 1’s position in the marketplace as a full solution IT hosting provider offering you the choice (or combination) of Managed Hosting, Dedicated Hosting (through ServerBeach), Co-location services, and in the near future, Cloud Computing. It also captures our core value proposition of delivering “scalability”, or our ability to grow with our customer’s online hosting demands; conversely, our ability to scale down when less hosting horsepower is required. It also speaks to PEER 1’s extensive geographical footprint – 15 data centers and 21 network PoPs across North America and Europe – and our reputable high performance SuperNetwork™.

Let us know what you think of the ads. If you like them, please link, embed, tweet, blog, and share anywhere and everywhere on the net.

Here’s more about how we can help get your business ready for a million hits.