cPanel – Makes Hosting admin easy

Web hosting forum at UK Webmaster forums is one of the most lively forums, with members discussing various aspects of web hosting, web administration, server management and other issues that could make a webmaster’s hosting needs as easy as possible. Most webmasters at the forum agreed that cPanel is certainly the most user friendly server control panel software. This prompted new webmasters asking the question; what is cPanel, for this reason this blog was written to shed lights on the capabilities of cPanel and then compare it briefly with other control panel software. cPanel is basically a control panel that makes web site administration easy. Like many other web site administration software in the market, cPanel has a graphical user interface and automates most administrative tasks. However, there are a number of differences between cPanel and other web hosting software.

cPanel is a proprietary software that is distributed by cPanel Inc. The software is intended for use by commercial web hosting companies, who in turn make it available to their customers by bundling this along with their operating system software. The main attractions of cPanel include a user-friendly interface, easy operation, low learning curve, and support for a number of popular Linux operating environments including SUSE, Mandriva, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and cAos. Installation and maintenance are made easy with the help of an auto-installing software and a choice of scripts. This make the job of working with the software possible for people who have little or no prior technical knowledge or exposure.

cPanel has two separate modules intended for use by Web Hosting managers and administrators, whose tasks typically involve creating new user accounts, add or drop sites, change passwords, see the bandwidth used, and installation of secure site certificates. The scripts that come with cPanel hosting make installation of a number of third party applications easy by automating them. However, cPanel does not automate the updates to these software. cPanel also provides support to automatically upgrade some applications such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, and applications built using them. cPanel does this by managing these software independently without involving the system software that supports them. This is seen both as an advantage and a complication, as it complicates the installation of newer version of all such software.

cPanel hosting also supports a separate module that enables resellers and users to access their control panels and carry out the relevant tasks. cPanel comes with an optional add-on program that automates tasks such as account creation and email notification. 

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PayPerPost

 kdawson bloggedon slashdot about pay bloging. PayPerPost venture capitalist and board member Dan Rua defends the ethics of paid editorials. He claims PayPerPost is ‘good for the internet’ and is not simply blackhat SEO. Rua states that PayPerPost has blown past its milestone of 15,500 bloggers, and is earning hundreds of thousands in monthly revenue. He describes PayPerPost’s most viral product yet — ReviewMyPost — which pays people to link to paid posts.

full story: http://slashdot.org/articles/07/03/27/2153205.shtml

YouTube – Best video winner announced

Popular Google owned Video-sharing website YouTube has named the winners of its first annual awards.
US rock band OK Go won in the “most creative” category for a video featuring the performers on treadmills.
Comedy series Ask a Ninja, a video promoting a Free Hugs Campaign and a performance by singer Terra Naomi were among the winners in seven categories.
YouTube said the winners had “changed the landscape of how a ‘star’ is defined”. A YouTube awards trophy is due to be unveiled at a later date.
Other winners were Thewinekone for best commentary, and double act Smosh for best comedy with their video of a man apparently stranded on a desert island.
YouTube’s award winners were chosen by the site’s users
The animation Kiwi! was named most adorable video.
OK Go frontman Damian Kulash told the AFP news agency: “It’s incredible how quickly and completely YouTube is changing culture. We can’t wait to get our trophy.”
Success on the site has previously been defined largely by rankings of the most-viewed or most-discussed videos.
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Search Engine Optimisation – Internal Ranking Factors

One of the topics that come up for discussion frequently at the search engine marketing section of UK Webmaster forum are the factors that affects your site ranking in search engines. This factors can be broken down into two: Internet and external factors. This blog looks at the internal factors.

Ranking factors are those elements of a site which are looked at by search engines to determine where the page should be ranked in search engine results. Internal ranking factors are the elements which are located on the specific website being looked at, and which can therefore be controlled by the site’s owner.

Keywords are one of the most important factors looked at by a search engine when deciding how highly a page should be ranked. Content on a web page should be optimized so that it has an appropriate keyword density; a commonly cited number is about 5% to 7% keyword density.

This means that the keyword or key phrase that the page is optimized for should be repeated five to seven times out of every hundred words. Any less, and the page would not be considered relevant enough to achieve a high ranking; any more, and the page might be considered spam and be banned from the rankings entirely. Each page of the site should be individually optimized for a keyword, as multiple SEO keywords tend to confuse a search engine and lower the page’s ranking. Also, there should be enough content on each page for it to be worth indexing by a search engine; 500 words is generally considered the minimum number for a useful SEO ready page. 

The location of keywords on a page is another useful internal ranking factor for site builders to consider. Keywords which are located nearer to the beginning of the page are more important to the search engine ranking system, as are those which are in some way highlighted. There are a couple of ways to do this, including highlighting keywords within the text of the page (although it is very important to do this sparingly to avoid confusing or frustrating the reader), placing keywords within headings, using keywords as a part of TITLE tags, and placing keywords in the links to other pages, both within the site and on external sites. When using SEO techniques to try to increase a page’s ranking, especially when manipulating internal ranking factors, it is vital that the suite builder not lose focus on the end user.

After all, the goal of SEO practices is ultimately to make it easier for users and potential customers or clients to get to a page, so it would defeat the whole purpose if the page was not useful to users once they arrived there. Pages which are a confusing tangle of apparently unrelated keywords appear to users as obvious spam, and they generally leave the pages within seconds and try another search listing. By the same token, if a page’s content is poorly written, misspelled, or too confusing, the potential customer may become frustrated and leave before learning anything about the product or service being offered. A better tool to entice users to the webpage is to create a Description Meta tag which briefly highlights what the page is about, so that even if your page isn’t the top search engine result, it may be the most relevant to users.

Ultimately, techniques which improve internal ranking factors can only be successful if the overall page is the best that it can be.

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Site Indexation

Websites are effective methods of popularizing products and services offered by various companies. Mere creation of attractive and informative websites is not enough and one has to promote the website to attract appropriate and adequate traffic towards the site. One of the possible ways to promote a website is to enlist the web page with a search engine. Just as a phone number should be listed in the local telephone directory, so also, pages of a website has to be indexed with a search engine to attract the right amount of visitors and enhance one’s business.

Promoting a site with a search engine is an ongoing process and the first step is indexation. Indexation of a website means that the website is visited by various search engines, which then analyze the contents of your site and then list it in their databases under the appropriate category. Inclusion of your website in a search engine’s database is very important for attracting the correct visitors both in terms of quality as well as quantity and this ultimately results in increasing business opportunities. In other words, indexation means that when someone does a search then your website would be considered if it was indexed with the search engine.
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