Archive for ◊ November, 2009 ◊

Author: Leif
• Thursday, November 26th, 2009

VPS Hosting The excellence of VPS – or virtual dedicated server- hosts available to users, either personal or business, is huge, and it gives 100% satisfaction for the best deals so that it make sure that you get what you require.

Questions that you need to ask include:

What do I need? It’s pretty much important to think whether you really need virtual dedicated server hosting before you go for it. It’s not at all good to get engaged with the service that is later found to be unsuitable for your requirements.

What do I get? As we all know that there are n number of suppliers in the market and everyone is having different offers. Study the terms of service, and of what comes with the package – statistical reporting is pretty important factor, and you should not forget about after sales service and support that change as per package.

How long is the contract? When you sign up for a VPS hosting, it will be done for a specific time duration. Just make sure that the one you choose is for a sensible time, as you will not like to be contracted to pay for something that you are not utilizing.

Will I get enough space? Memory space and capability is also one of the importance thing, as your needs will differ greatly as per the type of business, or blog, that you are intending to operate. Give the potential host all the information about the requirements you can, as they will be able to advise you for the best package you will need.

There are no simple rules which can help you to search for the reliable VPS Hosting provider, but the above mentioned points can help you to guide to start out on the road to get a VPS Hosting service set up for your purpose. Just make sure that you have answers for all the questions and the boxes ticked and you will simply get the right service you will be looking for.

Author: Leif
• Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Dedicated ServersWhat are the advantages and disadvantages of Dedicated Servers Hosting?

If the user is pretty much interested in the features like security, being the only business on the server, getting rid of possible server problems, and is having a budget that includes a considerable monthly fee, then what is going to be a good suggestion for him/her? The answer is: having his/her own dedicated server. Lots of users owns a busy eCommerce website and with a good number of visitors, then a dedicated server is like playing a excellent gamble, no need to think about its security features. Even though  if a user is having a smaller site, along with less traffic, as well as a low budget, one should stay until his/her budget flourish along with website to use a dedicated server. One should think about the aspects regarding advantages and disadvantages of Dedicated Server Hosting.

Advantages

When you are having a dedicated server then you are the only one who is using and the dedicated server  is 100% committed to your own website and information. Shared hosting is pretty much cheaper but you should also think that is less secure. If some one owns own server then the top priority will be given to security of information and in this case security is not at all the matter of concern.
The user can stay away from the server problems due to other’s sharing the server, and submitting bad information or spamming that affects the server, and ultimately affects the user in a negative way. But, after having own dedicated server the user can deal with his/her own information without thinking about other factors. This is just because of the reason that one user is only there on one server.

Another benefit of having a dedicated server is that, you do not have to worry about the space. As there is not going to be any other user to take the advantage of the space, so one can easily install and use the information and software that is desired or required.

With dedicated server, you can be less dependent on your web host and therefore the user can avoid any type of delays that may possibly occur plus a good amount of money that you would most likely lose from being offline.

Because of having a dedicated server you can reach to the mark where  you can offer support to the clients 24/7 wherever they wish, which is not at all  a possible option on a shared server.

Often, boost in the outcome of money is a result of using a dedicated server for the reason that one can be dynamic as per situation; can give support to the clients at any time where it will be undoubtedly a bonus money. As a result, we can say that, if the user is having control over own server then he/she can put command in own hands instead of someone else’s.

A dedicated server is pretty much swifter and user’s web pages will load considerably quicker and that will help you to keep people stick around and see what the site actually concern about. whereas a shared server might take longer time to load the website and people won’t stay for such a period of time.

Disadvantages

One of the most important downside to dedicated servers hosting is the charge in other words, cost. It is comparatively more costly than shared hosting and because of which it is restricted to a certain category of people.

Author: Leif
• Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

UK Dedicated ServersWebsite hosting is the only thing which connects the website with the internet and let the website accessed from anywhere in the world. Server is the first and pre required thing for hosting the website and the service of the website rely on the quality of the server. If you want to host an ecommerce website, then the designated server may serve the main purposes of the website and also will ensure the best security.

Dedicated server is one of the useful conception for hosting the ecommerce and large websites. Nearly all the hosting companies create their accounts on the specific shared server. A single hard drive and memory device may be used for hosting n number of websites and the bandwidth also may be divided among the sites. It is always suggested to arrange a single hard drive for storing your single site data. You must get the promoted bandwidth and the security with best. A dedicated server maybe defined as the single server for storing a single website and no other sites will be hosted in that machine. Dedicated serve guarantees better security and flexible bandwidth.

Dedicated server is having some features those are very much required and important for the website in different purposes. The most important features of dedicated server are server security, data transfer, space, software facility and control panel are some of . For having those features, mostly all the clients choose dedicated server as the best server.

Security is been considered a lot in the present period and dedicated server ensures the best security. To get the access in the server some spammers and hackers purchase hosting in the server and tries to execute some programs those may be harmful for the server security. Some mistakes may occur on shared server and complex to manage everything. Only one webmaster handles the server and there has a little probability of unauthorized access. Famous websites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo are hosted on their dedicated servers.

The data storage space may be changed and extended as per the requirements and algorithms may be applied for making out most of the space effectively. You can assign enough bandwidth and different types of data may be stored separately. For transferring data at the satisfactory speed, dedicated server is effective. Some techniques are applied to divide the time of server response in shared server where dedicated servers have no such types of problems.

In the shared based server, you get limited access and a limited number of options in the control panel. Dedicated server gives you the best control on control panel with the best features and options on the server. Dedicated server permits to execute more software and features in different purposes. They are easier to control, operate and maintain. There are also some disadvantages of dedicated server. Dedicated  server is pretty much expensive and space becomes unused sometimes. For a single website, you have to keep one administrator and a single server. Though it sounds to be pretty much expensive but it also have lot of advantages.

Dedicated servers are very essential and there are some applications that counts worth for the sites those who have the feature of financial transaction, E-banking and online transaction supportive sites.

Author: Leif
• Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Secret Of SERPAs all website owner knows, SERP is the short form of “Search Engine Results Page,” that beautiful list of links that you want your web page to be at the top of all the time. There’s no real point to this article, it is just to improve some general observations of SERPs as if they were gorillas in the mist!

Search engines like a scraper just as much as a low-ranking site.

A “scraper” is a site that just steals your content from your page and reposts it, with a link back to justify the plagiarism. The thing that irritates you is when you search for your site plus a keyword, and five scraper sites comes up before yours. Every now and then when Google is re-building their index, you’ll see this.

High bounce rates aren’t always bad.

Here’s the thing that sounds pretty bad: when the user bounces and instantly clicks another link in the SERP! This tells the search engine (rating these times with their redirected hashed links) that the user did not find what they were searching for on your site. However, when the user goes from SERP to your site to one of your ads – well, that’s a good thing, then, isn’t it?

SERPs are important in reputation management as well.

Lots of webmasters try to play the trick with several sites into the top results for the same terms, reasoning that if they have to compete with someone, they can at least compete with themselves. This makes bad sense from an SEO standpoint, but good sense when you want to make sure that all of the top links about you are written by you or your “friends.” It keeps bad press low on the page, you know.

Studies and analyses show that ranking 1-10 on a search will get about 88% of all clicks.

The remaining 12% goes to results 11 to infinity…

The Google ‘promote-remove-comment’ buttons so far are still a cypher.

You can only see them if you log in with your Google account. So far they seem to have little effect of changing results. It is doubtful that Google would allow the public to handle its results this way. So it’s a feedback feature of some sort, while keeping the superfluous purpose of allowing the user to customize how the links show up on their own SERP. Which is different for everyone. So what’s the point? Do users make the same search day in and day out, and if so why would they want to change the natural order?

The meaning of  “Cited by” in a SERP is a link that goes to the result from one or more pages with a “.edu” domain.

Getting a link from a .edu website surely helps for ranking higher in search engines. It is just enough to  puts your site in the pink forever; you could just about spam “mesotheleoma” to the page after that and it’ll still rank high. Also, trusted authors are tracked by this system and ranked higher, even on hits that have nothing to do with the reference.

One of the easiest way to rank higher for a high-competition keyword is to misspell it!

Author: Leif
• Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Article MarketingArticle Marketing: The best way to get the exposure and promote the internet business or home business or any type of business that is done online can bring good profits through the use of writing articles and marketing them in a effective way. Article or content is very much powerful and we can boost the traffic, improve the sales and online visibility of online business.

There are pretty good number of options that can help you to put your article content Online in different ways.  so here are some tips about writing articles and promoting them:

  • Have a short and simple title that captures attention and make your readers click on your article. Make sure that you have a targeted keyword in title or do some research on what people might type into Google looking for your topic.
  • Make your article easy to read as most people who are searching for the information Online are not experts so the better plainer and simple English sounds to be the best way. Also make sure that your paragraphs are properly spaced and they are not so long that it becomes difficult to read and understand. Try to keep each paragraph 4-5 sentences.
  • Provide information that readers are trying to search online. The up to date and relevant information will help the readers to learn more about you.
  • Set your articles in the way, where you should have a beginning, body, and conclusion. The introduction makes the reader ready for what you are going to tell them about, the body is where you tell them what you want to tell them, and the conclusion is review what you just told them. Simple… Isn’t it?

The best way to choose topics for discussion is by browsing online forums related to your industry or niche. You can always see people asking questions and searching for solutions to their problems. You can easily get a lot of ideas and write articles centered around those addressing important problems.

Promoting your websites is the best way for long term traffic and revenue. Also helps to generate free traffic from the search engines. Articles can be used for generating valuable back links for your websites and improve your ranking for your most popular keywords.

Articles can help you get there on first page in Google for the best keywords. Submitting article to article directories, free blog networks can help you to generate ton of free back links. The more back links, the higher rank for your keywords.

Learning more about generating back links for your websites by writing good articles with enough effort will bring good results in the search engines like Google and a good amount of traffic from article directories as well as this will grow your revenue.

Author: Leif
• Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Unethical SEO TricksAs we all know that the competition has increased a lot on web, the webmasters feel that their only goal is to rank higher in search engines. Everything goes fine till the time you don’t implement any unethical ways of SEO. Implementing bad tricks can give you high traffic for a short period, but always keep in mind that there is a where your site will be banned for ever.

Its because search engines are pretty much smarter than everyone think and the algorithm keeps changing after every specific time duration. Nobody knows the page rank algorithm of Google apart from its founders. So if you are using any such techniques then be careful from now onwards.

Guaranteed RankingGuaranteed Ranking – There is no one who can give the guarantee for Google ranking. If your SEO consultant  is giving the guarantee to rank you first, then it means that the consultant is just tricking you. You can only try to optimize the website in ethical ways and wait for Google to rank it on higher position.

what is cloakingCloaking – As we all knows that this is one of the black hat technique where different content is presented to Search engines bots and different content to the viewers. This is usually done by providing content based on the IP addresses. When a user is taken as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page. As a result, cloaking results in to unreliable ranking in the search results. That is the reason where all the search engines say “don’t cloak” in their Webmaster FAQs.

link exchange Unethical SEO Tricks That can Ban Your Site From Search EnginesLink Exchange Programs – This helps to boost the link popularity by linking your page with Web sites that are relevant to your topic and  it may benefit your ranking, but if the link exchange is with irrelevant websites then its just matter of time where Search Engines detect it and your site is just gone. Search engines are having its own ways to detect these bad techniques.

Keyword StuffingKeyword StuffingKeyword Stuffing is a technique where webmasters try to hide keywords inside page. Like put lots of keywords in the matching color of background. The keywords are not visible for viewers but Search Engine Crawlers can read them. So, it will be nice to avoid such bad tricks.

Author: Leif
• Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

mysql cpanelIt is pretty much easy to change MySQL Server from local server (”localhost”) to point out remote server. This way you will be able to connect to MySQL through a remote location.

Following are the steps to setup Remote MySQL :

> Login to WHM
> Click on SQL Services
> Click on Setup Remote MySQL Server
> Enter the name of the remote server in the host section and its password in the Remote MySQL Host Root Password
> Click on Setup

cPanel Dedicated Servers : MySQL Management

If you are looking for a web hosting company that can offers dedicated server in UK then BodHost.co.uk is the best option for UK Dedicated Servers.

Author: Leif
• Friday, November 06th, 2009

UK Dedicated ServersThere are different types of Dedicated Servers Hosting and each dedicated server should be setup as per client‘s requirements.

1) Basic Dedicated Server Hosting

If a client has outgrown from a shared / reseller / vps hosting account, he finally upgrades to a dedicated server with his basic requirements. Client’s do not need much RAM, Hard Disk and basic Operating System installed on the dedicated server hosting package. Their main purpose is to improve the website response time.

2) High-end Dedicated Server Hosting

This is most probably the next stage of a basic dedicated server hosting package where a client is looking for more better performance of the server as he has come to know that his requirements are more than it were before, which is then followed by a Quad Core Configuration. However, different websites have different requirements and setup of the dedicated servers as per their selection is pretty much important. As a matter of fact,  there are many pre-requisites that a web server hosting company should take care of.

3) Unlimited Bandwidth Dedicated Server Hosting

If a client is having live video streaming website like you-tube. He will not just need a high-end server configuration, but he will also need a good amount bandwidth which ranges from basic standard metered bandwidth per month to unmetered bandwidth of 100Mbps or 1Gbps Unmetered Bandwidth. The obligation of Data Transfer is pretty much high on these types of websites and it should be able to download or upload on the server with higher speed.

4) Application Dedicated Server Hosting

Dedicated Server Hosting packages that are used to host applications are known as Application Dedicated Web Servers. Client’s host all types of legal applications like live chat softwares, Flash tutorials, Media file installations and much more.

5) Database Dedicated Server Hosting

Client’s who run Databases like MySQL or MS SQL on a dedicated server are known as Database Dedicated Server Hosting. This needs more storage space and higher-end server configurations so that they can completely manage the dedicated servers.

6) Server Mirroring Dedicated Server Hosting

There are many website owners who need to keep their data mirrored to another server. This is just  because they do not want to loose any data in any condition. Servers are synchronized in order to transfer data from one server to the another. RAID Configurations are setup on the same theme as dedicated Server mirroring. The only main difference is that RAID mirrors / strips on Hard Disks and Server Mirroring is Server concept.

Author: Leif
• Wednesday, November 04th, 2009

UK Dedicated Servers
The release of Windows server 2008 from Microsoft has been a great revolution in web hosting. Windows dedicated Server 2008 is designed to perform for networks, applications and the most important is that it is technology efficient. The users of Windows Server 2003 can easily move to Windows Server 2008 server. We can say that it is a combination of Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003. New tools, virtualization techniques such as Hyper-V, improvement in security and management tools which are not only reducing cost for the licenses but it is also improving the performance on the windows web servers.

Management and deployment is pretty much easier if we compare Windows Server 2008 with windows server 2003. The easier interface has proved that it’s completely user friendly. Features such as Windows PowerShell which is basically Command-line shell that allows administrators to automate tasks across windows cluster servers. It can also arrange OS through network. It also support IPV6 allocations which makes it easier once our IPV4’s are over.

Installation of server roles can be done without graphical interface on Server Cost installation of Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 is having a built-in Virtualization software that is simply hyper visor based server software-hardware virtualization which will create virtual machines on a single physical machine and it can run other Operating Systems on a single server.
You can make some good savings on virtualization costs that are usually required to be paid to Virtualization software companies. Applications can also be virtualized through Windows Server 2008 centralized application access. Trouble free Remote access to windows-based program where you do not need a VPN to connect to a client’s server. Windows Server 2008 also comes with IIS 7.0 which is the next version to IIS 6.0 that was on Windows Dedicated Servers 2003 series. IIS 7.0 is required to combine Web platform that includes ASP.NET, Windows Services and Sharepoint Services. It has been seen that Windows Server 2008 Security has been improved. It also blocks  unauthorized connections to the networks, server or data.

Network Access Protection (NAP) tests each and every network connections to the server. Active Directory Services security has also been improved on a Windows Server 2008 Server. Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) and BitLocker Drive Encryption give full security to AD database at branch office locations. It also extends to Windows HPC Server 2008.

Windows HPC Server 2008 is utilized to make some savings on different processing costs and that helps to improve productivity and reduce the complications of HPC environment.

Author: Leif
• Monday, November 02nd, 2009

SEO SinsSEO is a trade with two sides: one the easy one are obvious mistakes you shouldn’t make, these are the deadliest, and another which is the most difficult one that will give you that extra edge is SERPs. The easy ones can be reviewed in ten easy and again obvious lists. But no matter how easy every now and then I see a website that extremely violates one of these or perhaps even more. Dooming it to the very end of SERPs. So for the record for everyone out there here they are:

1. Do NOT include your URL in your website’s title.
I know it may seem cool to let everyone know which website they are on but I think we all know where they have to look in order to know where they are. And to be honest if they can’t figure it out heck just leave them lost in the vast world of the Internet. Seriously though this will bring your SERPs even lower since the url of your website will barely be found in your content. Links do not count.

2. Your title should be maximum 65 characters long.
Keep it short I don’t think you have that many related keywords on one page. And remember to cut out ordinary words that you can never even hope to rank for like “it”.

3. Do NOT repeat keywords in your description.
You may now think Google cares about your description but it does and repeated keywords will get you stupid penalties for no reason. And try to keep it at maximum 200 characters.

4. Again Do NOT repeat keywords in your keywords META tag.
This is just like asking for your website to disappear people.

5. Do NOT join those tacky link exchange sites.
Sure they promise you links, but those links are put on a page with NOTHING but links. So there is no use to you. Instead it’ll give you a temporary boost until Google figures it out and BAM! next thing you know your website is out of SERP‘s.

6. Keyword stuffing is just a stupid plan.
You may be curious to put nothing but your keywords on a page but if you do tell how it turns out in a year or two. I don’t think I need to warn any smart people out there.

7. Stay away from BLACK HAT TECHNIQUES.
We all have heard of the mind blowing techniques to get your site on top of the SERPs, but what they don’t tell you is how long you are going to keep that top spot. It gives a good effect for a short time and after that the website is BANNED from Google.

8. Navigation is also important for the Search Engines.
So keep them html or php or anything they can see also.  Configuring XML sitemap will help the bots for site navigation.

9. Beyond SEO
The last mistake is optimizing your website for every search engine out there except, oh, that’s right the user. After all your work getting visitors from SERPs and when they get there they immediately leave. Because you’ve forgotten that the whole point of SEO is the user.

It doesn’t matter what others think these are the things you need to take care of first. Keep these things in mind and THEN move on to advance techniques. Which I happen to plan on covering extensively in the future.