If you were an auto mechanic, you would have tools like wrenches and sockets so you could do your job, right? Why would web hosting be any different? It's not enough any more to just have a hosting account to plop your site down and let it go. Today's businesses need strategic tools and precision controls to ensure their success in the online community. These tools, which we call our Site Works, are available to anyone who joins the MetroCity family.
Personalized mailing lists and newsletters
Our most powerful promotional feature.
- Create different mailing lists and/or newsletters to promote your business.
- Add subscribers yourself, or add a link on your page, and we'll handle it for you. New subscribers give you their salutation (Mr/Mrs/etc), first and last names and email addresses automatically.
- ZERO ADMINISTRATION:
If an email is returned because someone cancelled their internet account, they are automatically removed from your mailing list, and we'll even send you a message to let you know.
- Someone want off your list? We'll add a link at the end of your message that subscribers can use to remove themselves. Nothing for you to fuss with, and it ensures your message complies with all applicable laws concerning bulk email.
- Send messages instantly from our web-based delivery system. Blast off a fast greeting or notice with minimal effort.
- "Rich-text" options. If you'd rather compose your message in Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora or any other email client, just do so! Send it to a special email address the system generates for you and we'll do the rest. Your message can contain HTML code, pictures, sounds, and anything else you want.
- Personalization. Remember when a subscriber added themselves to your list and gave their salutation and first & last names? Our system will insert that anywhere you'd like in your personalized messages. Write a personal letter once to thousands of people - the possibilities are endless!
Web-based control panel
- Manage email accounts: point forwarding aliases like info@yourdomain.com or support@yourdomain.com to send mail anywhere you would like. Create new private mailboxes for your employees or partners.
- Manage your main account: change your password, view your resource usage and estimated usage so you can trim back and save money during slower months, and see detailed accounts of who is looking at what on your site.
No one wants to wait. When you need a change, it's done on your schedule when you want in an instant.
Detailed web site statistics
What's the use of advertising your business if you simply send out information and never get to know who read it? Now you'll know that, and much more. Clear and concise tables, charts, and graphs deliver key information.
- One Year of statistics and summaries let you track trends and measure your success.
- Summaries of resources used lets you only pay for what you need, no extra.
- Daily usage summaries (visits, hits, pages and more)
- Hourly averages - when is the best time of day to work on your site? See for yourself.
- Top pages accessed
- Top bandwidth transfer pages (which pages transmit a lot of data)
- Most popular entry pages (most people don't enter your site from the main page. Often, a search engine throws them in anywhere)
- Most popular pages to leave your site from (what did they look at last?)
- Your top visitors, who they are and where they're from
- Which visitors transferred the most data. Is someone abusing the system?
- Top sites that referred visitors to you
- Top search strings (what did people search for to get your site?)
- Which web browser and what operating system are your visitors using?
- What countries make up your visitor base?
Password-Protected Directories
Sometimes you need an area of your site that you can control access to with a username and password. Sell information, or sell access to your information. Keep confidential files and information in a safe area that only people you authorize can access.
- Add password protection to any directory (area) of your web site via an easy web-based interface.
- Customize it with a personalized login/password prompt.
- Add new users, change passwords, delete users.
- Ability to suspend and reactivate accounts without needing to delete & re-add them. (Did someone not pay on time?)
