Posts Tagged ‘Software’
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language). First released in January, 1998, MySQL is now one component of parent company MySQL AB’s product line of database servers and development tools.
Many Internet startups became interested in the original open source version of MySQL as an alternative to the proprietary database systems from Oracle, IBM, and Informix. MySQL is currently available under two different licensing agreements: free of charge, under the GNU General Public License (GPL) open source system or through subscription to MySQL Network for business applications.
MySQL runs on virtually all platforms, including Linux, Unix, and Windows. It is fully multi-threaded using kernel threads, and provides application program interfaces (APIs) for many programming languages, including C, C++, Eiffel, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Tcl.
MySQL is used in a wide range of applications, including data warehousing, e-commerce, Web databases, logging applications and distributed applications. It is also increasingly embedded in third-party software and other technologies. According to MySQL AB, their flagship product has over six million active MySQL installations worldwide. Customers include Cisco, Dun & Bradstreet, Google, NASA, Lufthansa, Hyperion, and Suzuki.
Tags: API, applications, C, customers, Definition, Eiffel, google, Java, MySQL, Perl, PHP, programming languages, Python, Software, Tcl, technologies, version, worldwide
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The three major elements of a search engines are: the spider, also called the crawler; the index or catalog; and the search engine which displays the results of your query in your browser.
The spider visits your web page, indexes it, and then follows links to other pages within the site. This is sometimes referred to as being “spidered” or “crawled.” The spider returns to the site every so often looking for changes.
The index is a giant database that contains a copy of every web page that the spider finds. When a web page is changed, then this database is updated with the new information.
Sometimes it takes a while for pages or changes to be added to the index. Therefore, a web page may have been “spidered” but not yet “indexed.” Until it is added to the index, it is not available to searches by the search engine.
Search engine software sifts through the millions of pages recorded in the index to find matches to a query and ranks them in the order of what it believes is most relevant. Different search engines often produce very different results.
Tags: believes, browser, contains, database, different, different results, displays, Elements, looking, matches, millions, pages, Query, Search Engine, Software, Web Page
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
The robots.txt file will instruct search engine robots what pages and/or folders on your blog or website should be or should NOT be crawled and indexed. Most Content Management Software (Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) will have files and folders that are not relevant for search engines (like images or admin files) and you really don’t want them to crawl them because there is no relevant content on them so creating a simple robots.txt file can actually improve your website crawlability and therefore rankings and organic traffic.
Tags: admin files, Create, engine, File, improve, organic traffic, pages, rankings, robots, SEO, Software
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
When you exchange links or submit your website to directories you want to link to as many pages on your site as possible as this will tell search engines that you have a lot of good and worthwhile content. If you have all links pointing to your homepage it will tell search engine that your site is very shallow and they might think that the links were created with some automation software instead of naturally (organic).
Use keywords in Anchor text of your links but you definitely don’t want all your incoming links to look the same, because that also looks like automation and you might get red flagged by Google. SEO Tip: Use your website URL sometimes, your company name other times and different but related keywords in anchor text of inbound links.
Getting as many as possible inbound links have become #1 priority in SEO world as that will get your website higher Page Rank and therefore higher rankings in Search results. There are different links you can acquire: Reciprocal and One Way links. One way links are by far better and much harder to get but any link you can get to point to your website is better than none. To get free one way links I use Free tools like Directory submitter and Article Submitter .
Tags: anchor text, Deep Linking, google, homepage, naturally, SEO, Software
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Search engine optimization has been a hot topic for a last couple of years. With changing algorithms, search engines and directories swapping technologies and services and a general growth (or sense of survival), much has changed in search engine optimization technique. In the early days, spamming your own website with endless strings of keywords with the same color as the background is gone.
Search engine optimization then evolved into a dependence solely upon the content of the metatags regardless of what the rest of the rest of the site was about. Spamming the title and description tags with huge strings of keywords was enough to get top placement in many search engines (SE’s).
Now, however, search engine optimization has come to a place of making the metatag content match the text on the rest of the web page. Throw in link popularity and relevancy and you now have the contemporary formula for top rankings.
In contemporary search engine optimization technique, the title tag is probably the most important metatag on the website. The website’s primary keyword / keyphrase needs to be in the title tag. The description tag and other hidden metatags also are beneficial when they are keyword rich.
Search engine optimization, now also features the creation of keyword-rich and hopefully content rich text for the body of the web page. The keyword-rich text is for the SE’s and the content is for the visitors. Both audiences must be kept in mind when writing this text.
The last element in search engine optimization is the creation of incoming links that are relevant to the main subject of the website. One way to accomplish receiving incoming links is to trade links with another site (reciprocal linking). Another way is to pay another relevant website a monthly advertising fee in order to display a text or graphical link to your site.
Search engine optimization is something that can be accomplished through education, through an SEO company or through software that will create keyword-rich pages semi-automatically.
The educational part of search engine optimization can be attained by reading everything on the Internet focused on this subject. Going with a search engine optimization company will work for others who don’t have the time or inclination to self-educate or who want to get started right away. Software will work for others, though it is generally not as effective as the other two methods since search engine optimization is as much an art as it is a science.
Tags: algorithms, contemporary, dependence, description, engine, Hidden, keyphrase, keyword, metatags, optimization, popularity, rankings, Search, Software, spamming, Title, topic
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Any software you run can take over your user account, so it is important to be careful when downloading native software.
* Only install software from trustworthy sources.
* Get software from the official site, so you can be sure you’re getting the an untainted copy and to be sure you’re getting the latest version.
* When you are using an Internet connection you can’t trust, such as a random wireless access point, avoid downloading software at all. If you must download software, try to authenticate it in some way, such as by downloading it through https or checking the signing information for a Windows executable file. (Bug 292481 aims to make it easier for software developers to distribute software safely.)
(Hopefully, future operating systems will make it safe to download and install software by separating programs from each other and from your documents.)
Tags: Copy, distribute, download, Downloading, install, installing, official, Software, trustworthy, wireless
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
If Firefox unexpectedly closes, you don’t have to spend time recovering data or retracing your steps through the Web. If you’re in the middle of typing an email, you’ll pick up where you left off, even down to the last word you typed. Session Restore instantly brings back your windows and tabs, restoring text you entered and any in-progress downloads. Restart the browser without losing your place after you install an add-on or software update.
Tags: browser, closes, down, downloads, Email, Firefox, install, recovering data, Restart, retracing, Session Restore, Software, spend, Through, time, unexpectedly, Web
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Firefox looks for a secure connection before installing or updating add-ons, 3rd party software, and Personas.
Tags: Add-ons, Connection, Firefox, installing, Personas., secure, Software
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Firefox 3 integrates elegantly with your antivirus software. When you download a file, your computer’s antivirus program automatically checks it to protect you against viruses and other malware, which could otherwise attack your computer. [available in Windows only]
Tags: AntiVirus, automatically, Computer, computer’s, download, elegantly, File, Firefox, malware, Software, viruses
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
More often then not, web addresses (URL’s) do not contain the topic of the page. For example, the URL www.myspace.com says nothing about being a place to make friends. Where a site like www.placetomakefriends.com would tell Google right away that the site being pointed to is about making friends. So to be more specific about where we are pointing to in our links we add a title attribute and include our keywords.
Using the Title Attribute is an direct method of telling the search engines about the relevance of the link. It’s also a W3C standard for making your page accessible to disabled people. In other words, blind folks can navigate through your website using a special browser that reads Title and ALT attributes. The syntax is:
<a href=”http://www.top10seotips.com/seo_software.htm” title=”SEO Software”>SEO Software</a>
The ALT Attribute is used for the same reasons as the Title Attribute, but is specifically for describing an image to the search engine and to the visually disabled. Here’s how you would use ALT in an IMG tag:
<img src=”http://top10seotips.com/img/image01.jpg” alt=”Top 10 SEO Tips”>
Tags: addresses, ALT, attribute, attributes, browser, contain, google, page, SEO, Software, specifically, telling, Title, topic, URL, Use, W3C
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