SEO Tutorial – Link Building

Search engines rely heavily on links from other web pages to rank pages. This is understandable, since if search engines were to rely only on web page copy, it would be too easy to manipulate results. Inbound links from quality sites are more difficult to get and take time. Precisely for this reason, they carry significant weight.

Good ways to build links:

Getting listed in quality directories

Since good directories use qualified human editors who choose listed sites very carefully using strict criteria, and place them in tightly focused categories, they are given significant weight in search engine algorithms.  In other words, if a link to your page is found by search engines in a quality directory, your page will receive a boost. Therefore, listing your pages in quality directories is very important.

Exchanging Links

Exchanging links is another way to get inbound links, provided that you be very selective with whom you do it.  Exchange links with an unreputable site and you may be setting yourself up for severe search engine penalties.  As a rule of thumb, exchange links only with sites that you think will be beneficial to  your visitors.  When exchanging links, give the other party the exact link anchor text they should use to link to you, and try not to use the same keywords all the time, since using the same anchor text all the time can alert search engines of excesive link exchange, or unnatural linking patterns.

Submitting articles:

Writing articles as the best way to get your site indexed by the search engines. It is also one of the best ways to promote your website and get hundreds of quality links to your page. It will also help you develop credibility and establish yourself as an expert. The way you do it is by including a small bio (called resouce box) at the end of your article, and allowing other parties to freely reprint it provided that they include your resoucebox.

Renting links

Many high Pagerank™ websites rent text links to other pages. These links are really a form of adversising, although their main objective is not necessarily to generate traffic but to pass along Pagerank™. Links from pages with Pagerank™ of 7 and higher can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month. Links from pages with Pagerank™ of 5 and 6 are less expensive. Google is catching up to the practice of selling and renting links and is taking measures to discourage it.  I do not recommend renting links from unknown services with the intention of pumping up your Pagerank™. It is also recommendable to try to establish inbound links by other means (like directories) before you engage in link renting.

Posting in forums and weblogs

Since forums and weblogs offer plenty of fresh content, search engine spiders tend to crawl them often. If you are a prolific contributor to these types of site and use a signature file with a link to your page, having many entries may give you a relevance boost with the search engines.  This technique, however, has been abused so much that as of January 2005 Google and other search engines have decided to support a ‘no-follow’ filter, an attribute that can be set up by blog and forum owners so that guest comment links and signature links will not be followed by search engines.

Getting unsolicited links

The unsolicited link (also called natural link) is the most valuable link, and the most difficult to get. It occurs when you have content that is so remarkable that people feel compelled to link to you. You will most likely get unsolicited links when you post original ideas, voice strong opinions, serve a specific niche very well, or offer something of value for free (for example a useful online tool).

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How to start Online Business?

Starting and operating an Internet business is surprisingly similar to operating any other business.  Good business practices, like building the confidence of customers through truthful advertising, providing products and services at a fair price, and developing long-term business relationships, are as applicable to Internet businesses as they are to any other businesses.

The Idea and Start-up Plans

This is the most important step of all!  Without a good concept, a good product, good services or good content, anything else you do is a waste of time.  So what should you look for here?

If you already have a business off the Internet (in the “real world”), this is the logical place to start.  However, we do not recommend that you stop there.  So many businesses launching websites view the Internet as just another place they need to advertise.

Their websites tend to be little more than what are known in cyberspace as “Brochure Websites.”  They simply replicate print advertisements and brochures.  While these sites are not totally worthless, they fail to take advantage of the unparalleled opportunities afforded by the new technologies online.

The Internet is fast becoming the busiest business district the world has ever known. However, having a web site should be more than reproducing existing advertising. It should mean taking full advantage of the Internet’s capability of interactive shopping and globally convenient access. Your web site can be the perfect showcase for people to obtain information about your company and products, an efficient way of communicating with your present clients, potential customers and an international marketplace to sell your products and services.

If you do not have an existing business, you should still look for ideas first in areas where you already have some expertise.  If your current expertise does not seem to lend itself to an online business opportunity, your next plan should be to spend some significant time learning about the businesses already operating online.  Once you have an understanding of what is available, look for ways to do the same things in a better way or look for a market niche that has not been serviced well.  Keep in mind that there are almost always ways to improve upon existing services and products.

Selecting a Web Host

There are some basics you need to consider when selecting a web hosting company:

1. Reliability
2. Access to support personnel
3. Server hard drive space
4. Allowable data transfer
5. Secure server
6. FTP or other access
7. POP accounts
8. Included software
9. Server-side software
10. Domain name hosting

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Microsoft Expression Web 3 Supported

Microsoft Expression Web makes creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier. With a state-of-the-art design surface that generates clean CSS, you can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you’re seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page. Expression Web makes creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier.

Expression Web makes creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier.

With a state-of-the-art design surface that generates clean CSS, you can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you’re seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page.

Drag and drop controls simplify adding rich media, such as Silverlight from Expression Blend™, Flash, and Windows Media. And advanced Photoshop file import gives you complete control over imported layers.

And if you like to work in the code, Expression Web has you covered there too. With support for a broad range of essential Web technologies, such as PHP, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, and ASP.NET you can use the same tool for both visual design and coding.

If you work on a team with developers, use Expression Web to do what you do best – design – and make it easier for developers to do what they do best. Hand the project over to Visual Studio developers, knowing that you design will stay intact while they extend the site’s functionality.

With a state-of-the-art design surface that generates clean CSS, you can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you’re seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page.

Drag and drop controls simplify adding rich media, such as Silverlight from Expression Blend™, Flash, and Windows Media. And advanced Photoshop file import gives you complete control over imported layers.

And if you like to work in the code, Expression Web has you covered there too. With support for a broad range of essential Web technologies, such as PHP, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, and ASP.NET you can use the same tool for both visual design and coding.

If you work on a team with developers, use Expression Web to do what you do best – design – and make it easier for developers to do what they do best. Hand the project over to Visual Studio developers, knowing that you design will stay intact while they extend the site’s functionality.

Microsoft Expression Web 3

Whether you’re an expert or just getting started, building standards-based Web sites is faster and easier with Microsoft Expression Web 3.

Top 10 Features :

1. Professional Code Editor
2. Professional Design Surface
3. Visual Diagnostics
4. Broad support for Industry-Standard Technologies
5. Broad Web Standards Support
6. Build Dynamic Interactive Sites
7. Create Professional Graphics for Your Site
8. Encode Silverlight video for Web streaming
9. Publishing Flexibility
10. Import Photoshop files

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The New .NET AJAX Framework 3.0

Now many websites build on ajax framework, due to the high demand on reliable and faster website. In order to answer this challenges , Microsoft have released the new .NET AJAX  framework 3.0, this release includes three important new controls:

  • HTMLEditor

The HTMLEditor control allows you to easily create and edit HTML content. You can edit in design mode, as a rich text editor, or in source view to edit the HTML markup directly.

  • ComboBox

The ComboBox control provides a DropDownList of items, combined with TextBox. Different modes determine the interplay between the text entry and the list of items.

  • ColorPicker

The ColorPicker Control Extender can be attached to any ASP.NET TextBox control. It provides client-side color-picking functionality with UI in a popup control.

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Silverlight 4, What’s New?

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a Beta version Silverlight 4. This latest version delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft’s world-class tools for designers and developers — Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend – present the leading edge in rapid, powerful application development. With printing support, rich reporting and charting, and integration with back-end systems and server products including Microsoft SharePoint, Silverlight is ready for business.

What’s New in Silverlight 4 Beta?

Silverlight 4 delivers a full suite of powerful capabilities to business application developers, bringing the best-of-breed .NET platform to browser-based experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications for both customer facing and staff-facing applications.

Webhostforasp.net Fully supports Silverlight 4 hosting. You could request to our support staff to have the Silverlight 4 activated on your server. You could request it through the ticket and you can create the ticket from the ticketing manager.

New Features for Application Developers :

  • Comprehensive printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents as well as a virtual print view, independent of screen content.
  • A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable, styleable components. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing and Masked textbox for complex field validation. Enhanced controls include DataGrid with sortable/resizeable columns and copy/paste rows.
  • WCF Ria Services introduces enterprise class networking and data access for building n-tier applications including transactions, paging of data, WCF and HTTP enhancements.
  • Localization enhancements with Bi-Directional text, Right-to-Left support and complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and Thai and 30 new languages.
  • The .NET Common Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without change.
  • Enhanced databinding support increases flexibility and productivity through data grouping/editing and string formatting within bindings.
  • Exclusive tooling support for Silverlight, new in Visual Studio 2010. Including a full editable design surface, drag & drop data-binding, automatically bound controls, datasource selection, integration with Expression Blend styling resources, Silverlight project support and full IntelliSense.

What’s new in Silverlight 3.0

Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. Initially released as a video streaming plugin, later versions brought additional interactivity features and support for .NET languages and development tools. The current version, 3.0, was released on July 9, 2009.
What’s New in Silverlight 3
Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, highlights of new features and functionality of Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity.
Silverlight 3 was first announced at the IBC 2008 show in Amsterdam on September 12, 2008. It was unveiled at MIX09 in Las Vegas on March 18, 2009. A beta version was made available for download the same day. The final version was released July 9, 2009.
Silverlight 3 includes an increased number of controls – including but not limited to DataGrid, TreeView, various layout panels, DataForm for forms-driven applications and DataPager for viewing paginated data. Some of these controls are from the Silverlight Toolkit. In addition, Silverlight 3 includes a navigation framework to let Silverlight applications use the hyperlinked navigation model as well as enabling deep-linking (linking directly to specific pages) within Silverlight applications.

Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. Initially released as a video streaming plugin, later versions brought additional interactivity features and support for .NET languages and development tools. The current version, 3.0, was released on July 9, 2009.

What’s New in Silverlight 3

Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, highlights of new features and functionality of Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity.

Silverlight 3 was first announced at the IBC 2008 show in Amsterdam on September 12, 2008. It was unveiled at MIX09 in Las Vegas on March 18, 2009. A beta version was made available for download the same day. The final version was released July 9, 2009.

Silverlight 3 includes an increased number of controls – including but not limited to DataGrid, TreeView, various layout panels, DataForm for forms-driven applications and DataPager for viewing paginated data. Some of these controls are from the Silverlight Toolkit. In addition, Silverlight 3 includes a navigation framework to let Silverlight applications use the hyperlinked navigation model as well as enabling deep-linking (linking directly to specific pages) within Silverlight applications.

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MSSQL 2008 Hosting

A database is an integrated collection of logically-related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for one or more multiple uses. One way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, image. Other classification methods start from examining database models or database architectures: see below. Software organizes the data in a database according to a database model. As of 2010 the relational model occurs most commonly. Other models such as the hierarchical model and the network model use a more explicit representation of relationships.
One of the best database type is SQL Server from Microsoft. All Windows hosting company should support SQL Server. SQL Server enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly within the database. And it includes integrated services that enable you to query, search, synchronize, report and analyse your data.
The current version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, (code-named “Katmai”) was released (RTM) on August 6, 2008 and aims to make data management self-tuning, self organizing, and self maintaining with the development of SQL Server Always On technologies, to provide near-zero downtime. SQL Server 2008 also includes support for structured and semi-structured data, including digital media formats for pictures, audio, video and other multimedia data. In current versions, such multimedia data can be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects), but they are generic bitstreams. Intrinsic awareness of multimedia data will allow specialized functions to be performed on them. According to Paul Flessner, senior Vice President, Server Applications, Microsoft Corp., SQL Server 2008 can be a data storage backend for different varieties of data: XML, email, time/calendar, file, document, spatial, etc as well as perform search, query, analysis, sharing, and synchronization across all data types.
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A database is an integrated collection of logically-related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for one or more multiple uses. One way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, image. Other classification methods start from examining database models or database architectures: see below. Software organizes the data in a database according to a database model. As of 2010 the relational model occurs most commonly. Other models such as the hierarchical model and the network model use a more explicit representation of relationships.

One of the best database type is SQL Server from Microsoft. All Windows hosting company should support SQL Server. SQL Server enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly within the database. And it includes integrated services that enable you to query, search, synchronize, report and analyse your data.

The current version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, (code-named “Katmai”) was released (RTM) on August 6, 2008 and aims to make data management self-tuning, self organizing, and self maintaining with the development of SQL Server Always On technologies, to provide near-zero downtime. SQL Server 2008 also includes support for structured and semi-structured data, including digital media formats for pictures, audio, video and other multimedia data. In current versions, such multimedia data can be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects), but they are generic bitstreams. Intrinsic awareness of multimedia data will allow specialized functions to be performed on them. According to Paul Flessner, senior Vice President, Server Applications, Microsoft Corp., SQL Server 2008 can be a data storage backend for different varieties of data: XML, email, time/calendar, file, document, spatial, etc as well as perform search, query, analysis, sharing, and synchronization across all data types.

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Windows 2008 R2 Hosting

Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, expanding existing technology and adding new features to enable organizations to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures. New virtualization tools, Web resources, management enhancements, and exciting Windows 7 integration help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and efficiently managed data center. Powerful tools such as Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0, updated Server Manager and Hyper-V platforms and Windows PowerShell version 2.0 combine to give customers greater control, increased efficiency, and the ability to react to front-line business needs faster than ever before.

Features

Windows Server 2008 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista; therefore, it shares much of the same architecture and functionality. Since the code base is common, it automatically comes with most of the technical, security, management and administrative features new to Windows Vista such as the rewritten networking stack (native IPv6, native wireless, speed and security improvements); improved image-based installation, deployment and recovery; improved diagnostics, monitoring, event logging and reporting tools; new security features such as BitLocker and ASLR; improved Windows Firewall with secure default configuration; .NET Framework 3.0 technologies, specifically Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft Message Queuing and Windows Workflow Foundation; and the core kernel, memory and file system improvements. Processors and memory devices are modelled as Plug and Play devices, to allow hot-plugging of these devices. This allows the system resources to be partitioned dynamically using Dynamic Hardware Partitioning; each partition has its own memory, processor and I/O host bridge devices independent of other partitions.

Many hosting companies now use Windows 2008 as their server’s operating system. Webhostforasp.net provides Windows 2008 R2 server for all their clients. With the latest technology built in, Windows 2008 server is the best server operating system now. Webhostforasp.net is one of your trusted windows 2008 hosting. Please check our plans for more details http://www.webhostforasp.net/asp.net-web-hosting/plans.aspx .

DotNetPanel Security Technologies

DotNetPanel has became one the primary choice for web hosting control panel. Now many web hosting company use DotNetPanel as their hosting control panel.

DotNetPanel is designed and developed using the most advanced security technologies. Without solid security, your servers, confidential information and messages are at risk. DotNetPanel uses the most advanced security technologies like asymmetric cryptography, Web Services messages signing, and process isolation to ensure that your data is always protected from unauthorized persons.

DotNetPanel Security Technologies

Asymmetric cryptography

In this case, a network user receives a public and private key pair from a certificate authority. You use this key to encrypt the message, and they send it to the recipient. When the recipient gets the message, they decrypt it with their own private key obtained from the same certificate authority.

Digital signature

Not to be confused with a digital certificate, this is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document. Confidentiality and integrity are two critical components of web services. Even encrypted data can still be overwritten and the integrity of your message can be compromised. In the web services scenario, the use of a digital signature assures you that the data was not tampered with while in transit between the sender and the receiver.

This technology allows you to insulate Web applications from each other, so that possible problems with one Web application don’t impact the other Web applications.

Webhostforasp.net use DotNetPanel as the hosting control panel for all its plans, because we want to ensure our clients get the latest technology feature . For trusted Dotnetpanel hosting, it’s always been Webhostforasp.net.

SmarterMail 6.6.3636 Launched

We proudly announce that our SmarterMail email system has been upgraded to SmarterMail 6.6.3636. Now our clients could enjoy faster and more reliable email server system. Here are the list of updates :

  1. CHANGED: Read and Mark As Read now have separate entries in the language file to ensure accurate translations.
  2. CHANGED: The To pop-up window on the compose page is now wider, making it easier to select message recipients.
  3. FIXED: An error message now displays when a user forgets to select a user or group when trying to share mail, contacts, calendars, tasks, or notes.
  4. FIXED: Corrected a deadlock scenario that caused POP, SMTP, IMAP and Webmail to become unresponsive.
  5. FIXED: Impersonating a user in Safari for the Mac now functions as expected.
  6. FIXED: Importing mailing list poster whitelists and blacklists using the Web service now functions as expected.
  7. FIXED: Mailing list bounce detection now checks the return path of a bounced message only.
  8. FIXED: Mailing list messages now include a clickable unsubscribe link when applicable.
  9. FIXED: Mailing list throttling now functions as expected.
  10. FIXED: Marking multiple messages as spam now functions as expected.
  11. FIXED: Messages with extremely long headers are now processed more efficiently.
  12. FIXED: Printing from the read message page now functions as expected.
  13. FIXED: Refreshing the messages page no longer causes the domain name to display in the page title.
  14. FIXED: Reminder timers now synchronize properly when using SIF formatted calendar entries with SyncML.
  15. FIXED: Selecting multiple rows with the same row ID no longer causes those rows to be ignored.
  16. FIXED: The disk space button now displays properly.
  17. FIXED: The disk usage summary report now displays the correct disk space total when logged in as a domain or system administrator.
  18. FIXED: The event action of sending an email will no longer corrupt non-ASCII text.
  19. FIXED: The original message now displays after a message is forwarded via the content pane.
  20. FIXED: The Send Digest button on the mailing lists page now repopulates the grid properly when clicked.
  21. FIXED: The system administrator username and password can now be changed via Web services.
  22. FIXED: Visifire (Silverlight) charts now display correct numeric data in non-English cultures.
  23. FIXED: Webmail access is now retained when removing a user’s domain administrator permissions.
  24. FIXED: When a mailing list sends a message to another mailing list, the original sender’s address is now listed as the From address.