Google is making its way to deliver web pages faster so they released a module for Apache server software. Using their SPDY (pronounced as speedy) protocol, Apache can deliver a web page 50% faster than normal.

This release is really great since SPDY will become available in public. Though Google started working on SPDY last 2009, it was just more prominent to IT world. Well, this geeky protocol is now coming to the internet world as a whole as well. In fact, Twitter started to use SPDY recently to send pages to those browsers supporting the protocol.

So how does SPDY works in sending web pages in less time? Well, it does so by letting the servers send many different contents of a web page all at once. This boosts the speed and loading time since it eliminates all the sets of functions that usually sent back and forth in the plain HTTP. Moreover, it also lets the server understand what a browser needs to run in a web page without having to wait for the browser’s message. The good thing is, both of those processes I mentioned happens at the same time. In short, the delivery of traffic is just done in one flow and it cuts the former back and forth communication that needs some time.

Google needs to have a support for browsers and servers alike so that SPDY can go publicly. This big step of Google in releasing a module for Apache is a great answer to this.

Some bigger companies are actually already using SPDY. Amazon, a famous site in selling various products, is using SPDY so the communication between its browser and proxy servers is fast.
For SPDY to be experienced by internet surfers, is has to be supported by the common browsers. Google Chrome is already supporting SPDY and Firefox will also support it in its next version (version 11). However, the other rival Microsoft Internet Explorer might not go for this since they are also developing their own web pages boosting tool called HTTP Speed+Mobility.

Internet surfing is becoming even faster through this wonderful developments that engineers are creating. Surely, people will have a better experience in waiting for loading time in those web pages they want to see. This is really a great boost in the internet world!

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Leading networking equipment manufacturer Cisco is set to launch a partner program aimed at consolidating approximately 50 different global programs into one. The new program is expected to leverage a $200 billion market opportunity which will help the company expand individual deals. Named the Cisco Services Partner Program, the company is going to provide performance-based incentives to its service partners.

Cisco’s annual survey of partners reveals that its solution providers now account for 50 percent of their revenues with services while contributing about 70 percent of their profits. Significantly, services account for approximately $9 billion of the company’s overall revenue.

Last year, Cisco extensively focused on refining its services programs such as its Integrated Architectures Specialization (IAS) for large partners that may be strategic with Cisco at various levels. Further, the company published a services Rules of Engagement document which included details on a wide spectrum of topics from partner services compensation to process involved to escalate issues to resolve conflicts.

The new program, however, is designed as the biggest statement of how the company wants to help its partners profit from services while differentiating itself from the strategies of its business rivals such as IBM, HP and Dell. The program will essentially open Cisco’s Smart Services portfolio up to its partner base.

With its intellectual capital and information offered through its software, Cisco partners can easily develop services for customers to boost competitive benchmarking. At a strategic level, Cisco partners can leverage Partner Support Service, a new offering, to provide both installed base and contract management services to customers while using Cisco APIs to build their own apps and software. Partners opting for the program can hope to realize incremental rebates up to 25 percent, depending on their approach to go in-depth with the programs and the type of service offerings they provide.

The program is going to be available within the next 18 months. The company started piloting it last year with around 2,500 partners. There are now 4,000 partners who are participating in it from the U.S, Asia Pacific, Israel and Canada. The company has invested about $1 billion in this program.

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Choosing appropriate hosting can be quite tricky because of the availability of so many options. There is shared hosting, virtual private server, and dedicated server hosting. VPS is the most sensible choice for those who need access to a lot of resources without having to spend a lot of money.

Virtual Private Server hosting is a very practical choice because it allows you to choose from a large number of operating systems, and can be operated independently. Among other things, you can have your own list of users, IP addresses, configuration, and root access. It can be likened to a dedicated server at a fraction of its cost. It is an excellent option for those who want or need good performance and stability.

Other hosting options, such as co-location, offer many advantages and benefits. However, they cost a lot of money compared to the features you get. VPS, on the other hand, is good value for the money if you compare it against the features you get on other types of hosting. Virtual Private Server allows you to host a large number – sometimes unlimited – of websites. You can also host your own FTP server, mail server, or any other type of server. On top of all this, you can use your VPS for file storage, backup, or anything else you may need.

Virtual Private Server Hosting gives you root access, which you can use to install additional software or change the configuration of the server to suit your needs. You can also change the operating system if the need arises. Simply put, you do not have to depend on the administrator or the hosting provider to change the configuration – you can do it yourself. However, you need to have some knowledge of how configuration and maintenance are carried out before signing up for a Virtual Private Server.

Out of the many hosting options out there, VPS is the best choice for those who want or need power and expansion. It also provides a lot of hardware resources that is otherwise unavailable in shared hosting. As it stands, VPS is a good hosting option for those who have a small budget, but big ideas.

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ICANN president and CEO Rod Beckstrom warned the public that the group can expect excitement, opportunity, uncertainty and threats in the days to come. ICANN is one of the key players in the function and accessibility of today’s global internet. They have been charged with the task of coordinating and segregating domain names throughout the world and managing the complex, demanding task of enabling IP addresses to recognize each other across cyberspace.

The coordination of individual IP addresses to specific domain names used to be a task of the US government. Since the government has allowed these operations to go private, a few kinks still have to be ironed out.  While ICANN is unable to alter any content on the internet, their intimate control of the global web and much of its inner-workings has sparked some controversy. Beckstrom is aware of the ethical dilemmas and is optimistic about implementing major changes to circumvent them.

ICANN has been criticized for being a group that controls the Domain Name System while many of its key players and leadership positions are occupied by execs from the Domain Name industry. This creates a clear conflict of interest. ICANN is a not-for-profit group who is not supposed to represent or promote the financial interests of any parties. Chief criticisms have stemmed from the idea that power players on the ICANN team can exploit the group’s manipulation of the internet to serve their own corporate needs.

Other criticisms have come from the intimate access these supposedly neutral parties’ possess. This kind of power can invade privacy and lead to motives that are fraudulent . Risk for this type of abuse is wide open to corporate executives who act in a biased, self-serving way. Personal information and data can be used to illegally bolster profits. Any person or group who wishes to register their business as a top level domain name can become an accredited registrar by making an agreement with ICANN. Critics see this is as a clash of interested when the heads of top level domain names are themselves high ranking members at ICANN.

Beckstrom held a speech in Costa Rico where he declared that it is time to “tighten up the rules that have allowed perceived conflicts to exist within our board.” Beckstrom is adamant that the necessary changes needed to make ICANN a neutral public service can be achieved. If Beckstrom fulfills his stated intentions, he will “ensure that absolute dedication to the public good supersedes all other priorities.”

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The right internet marketing campaign is only as good as the person who is developing the strategies. Many web developers have tried and failed to execute the right kind of SEO campaign because they do not have the tools necessary to build a winning strategy. Without a professional Web development Department, many professionals feel as though they still have the knowledge to keep up with all of the latest changes in terms of Google algorithms. Although many internet marketing professionals have access to a Helpdesk department Admin department, the sheer stubbornness keeps the SEO professional from using all available resources. This obviously leads to an unsuccessful internet marketing strategy and leaves the website without any unique visitors.

A website is only as good as the amount of users that visit the site. Going one step further, the website is only as good as the amount of users that actually click through the site. This means that a site can only serve its purpose if internet users are actually visiting the site. This is achieved by a properly executed search engine optimization campaign. In theory, it is quite simple to build a strong SEO strategy, but the reality is the foundation is only as strong as the team that helps to execute the strategy. Any type of Accounts Department, SEO or otherwise, is the foundation that leads to a professional internet marketing strategy.

The fundamentals behind search engine optimization are not difficult. Link building and article marketing are not complicated tasks when it comes to understanding how to employ the tasks. The problem lies in the amount of time it takes to execute the tasks. A proper link building strategy takes time and discipline, and most internet entrepreneurs are short on both. Article marketing requires a specific kind of discipline, especially when trying to develop the proper web copy. Keyword phrase density, long-tail keywords and keyword placement are only a small part of the proper type of content, but are vital to ranking high on the major search engines. Trying to accomplish both feats alone is trying enough, and generally means the demise of the website.

Anyone who has access to a Web development department must use the skills that are available within the team. This will ensure that the website is fully optimized which is the ultimate goal of any internet marketing strategy.

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When it comes to Social media and the cult of influence that it has presented to consumers around the world, we notice that the micro economy of this niche is growing exponentially. Facebook, Twitter and Google + – all are social networks worthy of their place in history. Placing each one in their right spot, will allow us to delve deeper in what each one has to offer and will let us understand what they do for individuals seeking different things.

With social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and the recently introduced, Google+, we see that there is a plethora of social sharing involved. The viral effect of these networks, whether it is acquiring “likes” via Facebook, “retweeting” something on Twitter or utilizing the +1 button on Google+, gives the consumer that social influence needed for the company to make a sale or generate a lead. Now, with social television on the rise and companies promoting their fan pages using television, companies are able to gain a massive influx of new customers.  The micro economy in which all three form together are essentially a multibillion dollar social media industry with Facebook in the lead so far. Emergence convergence is one of the main reasons that highly viral social networks are able to lead the industry and stay prominent. This “Cult of influence” that we often see when it comes to certain social media pages, provides a tremendous opportunity for businesses to carry the name of their brand to thousands or millions of people within the same demographic. And it is this same social influence that has allowed some businesses to expand their reach and gain hungry customers daily.

Social media has played a huge role in our society by allowing businesses to effectively connect with their consumers on a day to day basis – giving them the opportunity to expand and grow while at the same time, promote their brand to millions around the world. The emergence convergence phenomena of working together to share various social ideas and invent a service from it is gaining traction, let us take for example, the creation of the social network, Pinterest, and how it is currently rising to the top tier. In general, social media and its influence will continue to play a vital role when it comes to the decision making process of the consumer.

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It used to be that getting unsolicited phone calls was a common annoyance people had to deal with.  Now that many people have foregone home phones for cell phones, spam and other unsolicited emails are the new problem.  People receive tons of junk email every day in their email inboxes.  Most is unseen as spam filters have gotten much better over the years.  Most mail is automatically redirected to a junk mail box and subsequently deleted.  Besides automated features, there are a variety of ways to protect yourself from junk email.

Don’t give out your email

One of the most common ways spammers and other unsolicited email campaigns acquire your address is because you give it to them.  Filling out online forms to get access to content, putting an email down for written or online contests, signing up for accounts at social media sites or giving your address to a merchant you are doing business with are all ways that these entities get your information.  Think twice before you jot down or type in your email in any old place.  Look for privacy policies that you can read to find out if that entity will start sending you junk mail.  If you don’t have the time to read that or you can’t seem to find one, don’t leave your email because you will probably get spammed.

Lead a double life

The above tip of not giving out your email is good however most will not follow it.  Most of us can hardly help ourselves when all we have to do to get access to that cool online tool or enter into that appealing contest is give our email address.  You can still do that, just create an email account that is used specifically for that.  You don’t even have to use your real name.  Just create an account, make sure to save the name and password you used and presto.  You have a pseudo email identity that you can use to surf the web and make poor decisions with your information.

Spamming is not going away and neither are unsolicited emails.  Protection comes in many forms.  Consumers can spend a lot of time and money installing expensive software to ward off web spammers but that is not necessary.  Simply refraining from giving out your email or creating a pseudo email for use on the web will stop spammers.

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Many web publishers will often try to buy domain names that target a particular keyword that they believe will prove profitable when they go to monetize the site in question. There are a number of ways to monetize a site, such as forms of paid ads, like AdSense, or other methods, such as affiliate sales, CPA offers, and the like, and for most of these models, having a highly optimized domain name is critical to the on-page search engine optimization (SEO) efforts that these models require. When the publisher decides to buy domain names, there are some things to consider. Right now the search engines still give extra weight to domain names that contain keywords for which the publisher might be trying to rank. Currently one of the strongest types of URLs that publishers consider when buying domain names for this method of SEO is known as an “Exact Match Domain”. That basically means that the domain is made up only of the keywords that make up the keyword phrase for which the publisher is optimizing. In other words, if someone was trying to optimize for “big blue widgets”, the domain name that that publisher would try for is “bigbluewidgets.com”. The problem with this method, however, is that if the keyword is popular, several people might be trying to optimize for it, and they all might be trying to get an “exact match domain” for it as well. One possible solution is to use different “generic top-level domains” other than a .com, such as a .net, .org, .info, and so on, which would yield “bigbluewidgets.net” or “bigbluewidgets.org” for instance, but even that approach is limited, and if the keyword is really popular, all the available top-level domains will get used up quickly. Also, additionally, while .com, .net, and .org are considered the best top-level domains for serious business and branding work, domains such as .info and so on are sometimes considered rather spammy, thus narrowing options even further. There are other ways of working around this limitation. For instance, a publisher might decide to add a value-added term to the end of the domain name as a suffix, such as “bigbluewidgetsGUIDE.com” or “bigbluewidgetsINFO.com” or whathaveyou (capitalized for clarity), but that might not always be practical, and there is still some debate as to whether the extra word and the end dilutes the strength and impact of the exact match domain. Well, there are two other effective solutions that a publisher can try, that can prove effective. The first is well known, that of putting hyphens between the words, so that “bigbluewidgets.com” becomes “big-blue-widgets.com”. While there is also some debate as to whether the hyphens dilute the EMD effectiveness, the method is generally considered to be viable. The other method is rather clever and innovative, and has tested to show good results. In essence, the publisher uses the EMD for the main keyword, but then will buy domain names with an extra, random letter added to the end of the name, so “bigbluewidgets.com” becomes “bigbluewidgetsV.com” or “bigbluewidgetsX.com” (capitalization for clarity). Here’s how this works. Google and the other search engines have very strong auto-correct qualities when it comes to working out keyword spellings and discerning string searches. In other words, among other things, Google is essentially one huge spellchecker (for lack of a better term). As such, it will assume that the errant letter at the end of the domain name (V and X in our examples) is a misspelling, and will correct for it in it’s search algorithm, treating it like what it perceives as the intended “bigbluewidgets”. You can test this for yourself. Enter a search string into Google with a purposefully misspelled word, and Google will either auto-correct for it, or provide a choice of search results with either the correct spelling or the misspelling. Likewise, it does the same thing internally when analyzing the keywords in a given domain name. Whether a publisher chooses to go this route, or try something less experimental is ultimately up to the person who will buy domain names for their sites, but definitely consider giving this a try. It has worked for a number of SEO experts in the past, and it might just prove to be the missing key to making your SEO efforts work.

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