Gerald Faustia asked:


with your website nearing completion you may be now scouting around for a web hosting service to host your website after it has been completed. If this is so, you may have taken notice of the vast numbers of web hosting services that are available on the net for you to select from. What sets them all apart and is it just really their technical aspects that you should consider when choosing a web hosting service to host your website?

This is definitely something that you have to give consideration to and what you want to look at is the amount of bandwidth and the amount of gigabytes that they have to offer. Of course there is also the price of the various services as well that you will want to compare before you make your final selection. Are there other things that you can look for in a web hosting service though that you can use in gaging one against another?

The fact of the matter is that there is and due to the high level of competition between web hosting services some more then others will have other services and tools that they provide for their customers. You may want to consider selecting a website with an eye towards future SEO or what is also known as search engine optimization.

Search engine optimization is the process by which you construct and promote your website to enhance its placement and location in the various search engines on the Internet. The roadside of the Internet is littered with the corpses of websites that their owners thought would become successful all on their own without any form of promotion or SEO.

The fact of the matter is that the Internet is a highly competetive place to do busines in and no matter what genre your website is in, you can rest asssured that your competition is engaging in SEO and therefore, so should you if you plan to be competetive. One of the first tools that you will want to have at your disposal that a web hosting service can provide is a tool for researching your competition and planning the use of your keywords.

The importance of this tool can not be underestimated and it is of the utmost importance when engaging in SEO. One more thing that you will want to look into when shopping around for a hosting service is whether or not they currently create site maps and whether or not they automatically ping ASK, Yahoo and Google. This is an important service, because if they don’t that means that you will have to do it yourself every time that you update your website or add another page to it.

One more tool that you will want your website hosting service to have is a tool for inspecting and reviewing web pages that will will also make suggestions for optimal SEO after you have submitted it. So you can see that there is a balancing game that you have to play when selecting a web hosting service and there is more then just price and technical aspects to consider.



Jon

Shubhendu asked:


I realised that programming in Java is quite a fun only after doing it myself. You will be amazed to know that it’s like putting different pieces of puzzle together. You put them relatively in an integrated and coherent manner. The Beauty of it is, that most of the times you dont have to create these pieces yourself. You just customize them according to your need after you get them from an already defined java class or package. It was about programming, now lets talk sumthing about sockets.

Socket is used to establish a point-to-point, bidirectional connection between two entities in a network. Just like a real world socket, it is used to plugin a connection from another source. The connection can be incoming or outgoing or both. Similar is the case at the other end. To understand these sockets  properly, you need to learn a bit about Operating System and its Networking Protocols. Sockets are basically of three types: 1)UNIX Domain Sockets; 2) Internet Domain Sockets; 3) NS domain Sockets.

Java being platform independent Programming language, supports only Internet Domain Sockets as only they are platform independent out of three. These internet domain sockets are distinguished on the basis of Internet protocol they work on…

1) TCP/IP(Transfer Control Protocol): The data transfer is reliable, in-order,connection oriented, so takes connection establishment time before the actual data transfer takes place. Sockets based on TCP/IP are known as Stream Sockets.

2) UDP(User Datagram Protocol): It is connectionless,unrealiable and unordered data transfer protocol. Each packet in it has a destination address associated with it and is realeased into the network to make its own way. The sockets based on UDP are called Datagram Sockets.

3) Raw IP: It is a non-formatted protocol. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP protocols, Raw IP is not a core protocol of IP Suite. It’s different from them as its used to receive header information of the packet along with data, which is not the case in TCP/IP, UDP, they just receive data.

In Java Sockets are mainly implemented from already defined classes and pakages. These are:

1) Java.net.package: It contains all the classes that a user require to create a network based application. The below mentioned classes namely ServerSocket and Socket are also its part. This package also contain classes to create Secure Sockets and to connect a Web Server.

2) ServerSocket Class: It Provides sockets for the Server side.These sockets monitor network for requests or simply waits for them. When such request arrives, a server socket performs assigned task based on the request.

3) Socket Class: This class provides the Client side sockets. These sockets connect to the server, send and receive data for the client.

Remember, no socket can work without a port which is identified by a port no. Port is a gateway to a socket connectivity which is on the both sides of network. A socket is mainly identified as per its ports.



Janice

meenakshi gupta asked:


If you are small business owner who is attempting to figure out the best way to implement search engine optimisation (SEO) and your target audience only consists of your local geographic location, luckily there is a way to make your efforts more effective, techniques that will see you listed higher faster.

Not many people realise that local SEO can be implemented in order to ensure your site is indexed in the correct geographic location. Google is the most popular search engine however the results it displays on Google in the UK and the results it displays on Google in America are significantly different.

You see Google places massive emphasis on relevance therefore what would be the point in showing an American company to a British audience? It is for this reason that Google takes into account local search engine optimisation (SEO) and your competition will consist of those companies targeting the same keywords in the same location as you. I want to run through a few ways of ensuring your site is locally optimised. for more detials:-www.sitemap-makers.com.Two factors Google consider when deciding where your site should be indexed is you top level domain and your hosting locality. So to ensure you are listed in the correct index, make sure your domain represents your target country ie. uk - United Kingdom Com - USA - CA - Canada etc…

The other factor is your hosting account. Google will use the IP address of your site to establish where it should be indexed. for visit detials:-www.greatseosecrets.com.This is more powerful than the above factor therefore if your hosting account is in the US but you have a co.uk domain, your site will be listed in the com index.

Another of enhancing your local SEO, is to link to other local sites, look for government sites, business directories, contact pages and other businesses within the area to link to. This will have a dramatic impact on where your site is indexed and the position of your site. Also try and write your content for the people in the area you are targeting, not every English speaking country uses the same phrases or slang. This will not help your search engine optimisation (SEO) results but will help your visitors become more profitable.

Another way of making sure your site is locally targeted is by submitting your site to Google webmaster tools and using the settings to select the country your site is targeting, this is very effective and you should see results within the first month.



George