Make Use Of Linux Web Hosting Service For Better Results

Linux is the best operation system that you can have for a WordPress blog hosting. It is extremely reliable, very fast, and also very cheap compared to any other blog hosting service. If you are using Windows operating system for your blog hosting, its features and applications can become very costly to you when compared to blog hosting with Linux operating system.

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You need to find a web hosting service which offers at least 99.9% uptime guarantee. It would definitely be worthwhile to find a blog hosting service that can give you at least 99.9% uptime guarantee. A reliable blog hosting service is very essential if you want to succeed in your online business and to generate continuous revenue.

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Installing the WordPress is easy using the blog hosting service. You just have to install the WordPress scripts, follow the guide-lines, and then set up your blog on your own. There are even some web hosting companies that have this installation of the WordPress scripts included in their control panel. This saves your time and more efforts because you will not have to install the scripts by first downloading from the WordPress site, then uploading through the FTP program, and then installing it on your blog.

And last not least is to choose a hosting with better support to help you get through you blogging life easily.

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Here is a list of free and proven for their effectiveness SEO online instruments:

1) Alexa Ranking . It displays multiple domains instead of one. Therefore, you can have instant traffic results from Alexa Rankings instead of typing and search each time separately.

2) XML Sitemaps . Sitemaps are extremely important for websites because they help search engines crawl and index them. This is a free xml sitemap generator.

3) Directory Manager . You can track your submissions to various web directories and you can also visit regularly to see new directories added to the list. You just tick the appropriate submission boxes when you submitted your website. It’s very easy to use it.

4) 123 Promotion Keyword Research Tool. This is a very powerful tool. It displays, based on the Overture and Wordtracker keyword search tools, similar data, including search figures from the previous month. It also adds statistics for average searches per hour, day, week, projected figures for the next 12 months and then also a figure to see how searches may look in 3 years from now.

5) Keyword Density Checker . This keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters/SEO’s achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms/keywords. This tool will analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one, two, or three word key terms.

6) McDar Pagerank and Backlink Checker . This is another Excellent Resource. When you enter the appropriate URL and keyword, it will display Pagerank and Back links pages for the Top 10 websites.

7) Robots.txt Generator You can create a free robots.txt file with this resource. So, you will be able to direct the search engines to follow the pages structure of your website and also direct the search engines not to follow and crawl specific web pages of your website you don’t want to be crawled.
All you have to do is filling the fields and when the robots.txt file is created you upload it to your root of your web server.

Nichebot . This website displays keyword data using Wordtracker and Google search results. You just enter the keyword and press the button.

9) Domain Stats . You Enter the domain and get: domain age, number of pages indexed, and number of backlinks. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc.
It will help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.

10) Compare Search Engines . Shows top results from 3 search engines. This tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains.

11) Verify Result . This verification tool checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. You enter your URL/Keyword and it displays top 30 for 11 Search Engines.

12) Related Keywords. This tool generates a list of possible keyword combinations based on lists of keywords that you provide.
You enter a list of terms, one per line or separated by commas. This is very effective for Google Adwords and Overture.

Using invisible text
A lot of web masters try to put invisible text on their web pages by making the text color same as the background color. Almost all search engines can easily detect this and the next time you submit a web page for your website, it will straight away go to the dumpster without ever being crawled or looked at by a human (You get the idea).

Repeating keywords
Lots of webmasters repeat certain keywords all over the page especially concentrating at the bottom of the page in very small fonts. Again try this only if you want to get banned from the search engines.

Using unrelated keywords
If you site is about selling shoes, then over flooding your web page with references to Britney Spear will not help you. Lets say it gets you #1 rank on Google for keyword “Britney Spears”. If someone is looking for information about Britney Spears, and they land up on your website, do you think they will buy shoes? The answer is probably no. I have no idea why someone would do this! Doing this not only increases your chances of getting banned by search engines, but if you ever do get listed using irrelevant keywords, you are not targeting your customer base.

Linking using link farms
This means interconnecting all your pages to give the effect of a lot of information being available on the web site. When a search engine crawls through your website, it creates a history of your site better than you could imagine. It knows exactly how many pages you actually have. How many link are there just to fool the search engine crawler, and a lot of other such information.

Over submitting web pages
Lots of webmasters repeat certain keywords all over the page especially concentrating at the bottom of the page in very small fonts. Again try this only if you want to get banned from the search engines.

Conclusion
What some web masters fail to understand is that compared to the 30 minutes to an hour they spend trying to fool the search engines, the search engines are spending countless hours and hundreds of dollars to stay ahead of the game.

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Provide navigational links to all your web pages
In order for any search engine to index all the pages of your site, it should be able to find them. An efficient navigation system is very important in this regard as explained in this article. Avoid using images, JavaScript or flash navigation links, because search engines look for HTML link tags for indexing.

Content is king
Search engines index the content of a website, and the more content you have, the better. Add relevant content to your website. If your website sells digital cameras, you can add reviews on the digital cameras that you carry. This will also attract potential buyer to your website. Usually buyers do research first before they buy online.

Use keywords in text
In order to target keywords in searches, use the same keywords in the text. For example, an article on design layout will use the keywords design and layout instead of using architecture and templates. However, using the keywords repeatedly does not help either.

Use synonymous phrases in title, meta tags and headers
Include related words and phrases in page titles, text, and header meta tags. This will expand the range of keywords that the web page might be listed under. For example, this page has a title of “Search Engine Optimization – Tips & Tricks”, while the article header is “SEO: Optimize Your Web Pages”. This page has been targeted for anyone searching for either of these words. Search engines value the page title, meta tags and page headers (within HTML <H1> tags) more than any text in the page.

Order of keywords in title and content
The order in which the keywords occur in your web page matters in the search rankings. For example, one of WebsiteGear pages is ranked #1 on Google for the keyword “favicon create”, whereas the same page is ranked #21 when the search keywords are switched to “create favicon”.

Use descriptive links using key words
When linking to web pages within your website, use descriptive words in that link to describe that page. Advanced search engines use these words as the keywords defining the content of the page.

Use key words in file names
Use the keywords that best describe the content of the web page to name the page. Use underscore ‘_’ between keywords. For example this page is named as seo_tips.asp.

Submit your site to search engines and directories
Submitting to search engines is not new to webmasters. However, follow all the rules and regulations of such submissions to each search engine. Your site may be rejected if it detects spam submissions of your website. Submit to relevant categories in popular manually edited internet directories like DMOZ.org, Yahoo.com and Zeal.com. These directories are used by most of the successful search engines like Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and LookSmart.

Conclusion
Plan ahead for optimizing your website pages and choose the keywords correctly. Add value to your website so that visitors find it helpful and link to it from their webpages. Allow some time before expecting results in the searches. If it is not satisfactory, update your web pages again. If you have to hire an external SEO company, search on the top search engines for keywords such as “search engine optimizers”. Select one from the top 20 in the search results. If they cannot optimize their site within the top 20, probably they would fail in optimizing yours too. Read this Google article to know more about SEO consulting firms.

No one can guarantee the #1 position in a search engine for your web pages. Even Google is ranked #4 when searched on Google for the keywords “Search Engine”. However, rankings can be increased by tuning your web pages.

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IP stands for Internet Protocol, the most popular open-system protocol used to communicate accross any sets of interconnected networks including Local Area Networks (LAN) or Wide Area Networks (WAN). An IP address is an identification number assigned to a device (e.g. a computer or a printer) in such a network. Other devices in the network or out of that network uses this IP address to connect to this device via communication protocols such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or Internet Protocol (IP).
An IP address consists of 4 sets of 8-bit numbers (octet) with a total of 32-bits, each separated by a dot (.). For each of the 4 sets of octets in an IP address, the maximum possible value is 255 (representing an octet containing all ones). Therefore, the values of IP addresses can range from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255, which translates to 3,720,314,628 different IP addresses.

Example of an IP address in decimal and binary -
Decimal: 123.45.67.89
Binary: 01111011.00101101.01000011.01011001

Within a private network, any valid IP address can be assigned to the devices as long as they are kept unique from one another within that network. However, assigning of IP addresses for server and devices connected to the internet is governed by organizations such as ARIN (United States), RIPE NCC (Europe) and APNIC (Asia Pacific), so that no duplicate IP addresses are assigned.

Classification of IP addresses
An IP address consists of two portions – one identifies the network and the other identifies the device or the node within that network. For example, in case of the IP address 123.45.67.89, the network is identified by 123, whereas the node is identified by 45.67.89. The rules of breaking down an IP address into network and nodes is decided by the classification. Though the decimal representation of IP address is easier for human usage, computers use the binary representation and the classification of the IP address is also based on the binary numbers.

Class A: This class of IP addresses start with a binary number 0 (decimal numbers from 0 to 127). The network is identified by the first octet (the first set of the IP address). For example, the IP address 123.45.67.89 belongs to class A because the first set of numbers is 123 (between 0 and 127). The network ID is 123, whereas the node ID is 45.67.89.
The IP address 127.0.0.1 is a special IP reserved for internal loopback testing. For example, if someone connects to a local host (same computer running the server), the IP address is 127.0.0.1. It does not create any network traffic. Also the IP address 0.0.0.0 represents a default fallback value and not assigned to any network. Therefore, class A can support 126 network addresses, each containing 16 million nodes.

Class B: The binary number starts with 10 (decimal numbers from 128 to 191). The network is identified by the first two octets (the first two sets of the IP address). For example, the IP address 178.95.234.23 belongs to class B, because the first set of numbers is 178 (between 128 and 191). The network ID is 178.95, whereas the node ID is 234.23. Class B can support 16,000 network addresses, each containing 65,000 nodes.

Class C: The binary number starts with 110 (decimal numbers from 192 to 223). The network is identified by the first three octets (the first three sets of the IP address). For example, the IP address 210.223.99.145 belongs to class C, because the first set of numbers is 210 (between 192 and 223). The network ID is 210.223.99, whereas the node ID is 145. Class B can support more than 2 million network addresses, each containing 254 nodes.

Class D: The binary digits start with 1110 (decimal numbers from 224 to 239). This class of IPs are reserved for multicast purposes.

Class E: The E class of IP addresses start with binary digits 1111 (ranging from 240 to 255 in decimal format). This class of IP addresses are reserved for testing purposes and not assigned for public usage.

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Why are subdomains used?
Subdomains are commonly used to categorize portions of the website. For example, the services offered by G2soft.net are categorized by their subdomains, such as insurance.g2soft.net or webhosting.g2soft.net. The benefit is that the subdomain can be easily moved to another server if the category gets very popular.
Subdomains are also used by free webhosting providers to resell web space under their own domain name (e.g. http://membername.hostname.com). Each member will have their subdomain, however, they all will still share the domain name of the hosting provider.

The third reason for using a subdomain name is to load balance the web servers for a high traffic website. Multiple web servers are assigned different subdomains like www.sitename.com, www1.sitename.com, www2.sitename.com etc, though each of them contain the same application code. When the request comes from the browser, the load balancing software redirects it to one of these servers. DNS load balancing is a simple method of load balancing using subdomains pointing to different IP addresses.

Types of subdomain setup
Subdomain can be setup in different ways, although the subdomain information is stored similarly in the DNS server.

1. Separate Site: This type of subdomain setup will the have a separate hosting account or hosting location with respect to the domain hosting account. The hosting provider usually assigns new resources (disk space, bandwidth etc.) for this subdomain and charges fees as if it is another hosting account. There is often no way to share common files (such as include files by relative path) between the domain account and subdomain account.

2. Sub-Directory Pointing: In this case, the subdomain is pointed to a sub-directory of the web root folder. For example, subdomain.domain.ext will point to /account/www/subdomain directory. Essentially, the resources of the domain in this case are shared by the subdomain as well. Usually the hosting provider does not charge additional fees (other than subdomain setup fees). Both the domain and subdomain can also reuse the same common files (such as SSI includes) from the same shared directory location.

3. Separate Server: This type of configuration is similar to the separate site configuration but hosted on a separate server with a different IP address. In this case the subdomain can reside at a totally different geographical location. The advantage of having a separate server for a subdomain is in load distribution among servers (by separating application functionality) or providing horizontal scaling in case of load balancing between servers (by identical replication of application code on each server).

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In the background, this request is being routed to a nameserver, which in turn routes the request to the DNS zone that resides on your server. This DNS zone is responsible for your page appearing in a browser. But how does it work?

This can be a complicated process, but we’ll just touch on the most important things that you need to know about your DNS zone. Unless you are operating your own dedicated server, you should not have to worry about configuring your DNS zone, but it is helpful to understand how they work.

There are several different types of information that are stored within a DNS zone. First, the address field contains the address mapping information for your IP address. This means that when a request for your domain is made, the DNS zone contains the information that is required for your browser to find your IP address. This IP address, even if it is shared with other users, is assigned to your domain name when you set up your nameserver.

In the beginning stages of the Internet, IP addresses were used before URLs. However, this proved to be very complicated as more sites joined the rush to get on the Internet. People were finding it impossible to remember the string of numbers that are contained in an IP address.

So, it was decided that each IP address would be mapped to a specific domain name or URL. It functions in much the same way as typing in a site’s IP address in your browser, but it is much easier to remember a URL than it is to remember an IP address. This mapping field simply converts the domain name into the correct IP address.

In addition to the address field in your DNS zone, the correct nameserver for your domain will be included. This nameserver must match the one that you had assigned to your domain for the process to work correctly. Your hosting company will provide you with this information but you will need to make sure that you have entered in the correct nameserver on your own, unless your hosting company is also the registrar of your domain.

These two fields are the most important yet basic fields in a DNS zone and the easiest to understand. There are several other fields that are included, but as we mentioned above, you should not have to configure these on your own. By ensuring that you understand how these two basic fields in a DNS zone work, you will be able to have your domain propagate correctly and you may be able to troubleshoot any problems if your domain is not resolving as it should.

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There are many things that you will need to be aware of before you transfer your domain.

1. Is your domain name registrar a reseller? If they are, it is much easier to transfer your domain, as long as you stick with the same company that your reseller is working for. This means that if your reseller is working with ICANN, you would need to find a cheaper registrar who is a reseller for ICANN as well.

If the company is different, for example, if one reseller is using ICANN and the other is using Network Solutions, you will need to go through a complicated transfer process. It is much easier to stick with the same root company when making a transfer. Luckily, the prices for both are quite similar.

2. Is your current contact information on your domain accurate? You will need to approve the transfer of your domain using the email address that is associated with your domain. If this email account is no longer active, you will not be able to perform the transfer.

It is very important to make sure that you can log-in to change this information before you attempt a transfer. You should always keep your domain information as current as possible.

3. Have you prepared for some down time? While your domain name is being transferred, your site may be down for a short period. This can be fatal to some sites, so it is important to schedule this transfer during a slow period or to make sure that your customers are aware that your site may not be available.

Normally, this process is seamless, especially if you are sticking with the same root company. However, it is still a good idea to be prepared. A transfer can take as much as 72 hours to complete.

4. Are your nameservers current? When you transfer your domain you will need to be able to log-in to your new registrar to make sure that your nameserver data is accurate. Usually, this information is transferred over, but you will need to check anyway, just in case.

While it can be tempting to go hopping from registrar to registrar in search of the best deal, it is usually a good idea to find a price you are happy with and then stick with them. Unless your registrar is not offering you the features you need to maintain your domain name, you should not need to change once you are happy with the price.

If you do transfer your domain, most registrars will add an extra year to your domain. However, if your domain is about to expire, you may not be able to transfer it. Some companies will not transfer a domain that will expire within 15 days. Make sure that you check with your intended registrar before beginning the transfer process.

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