Ways of submitting Sitemap.

Sitemap plays an very important role for faster indexing of your website, you should create/update your sitemap and should submit it to Google so that Google bots can crawl your site more frequently and faster. Submitting your Sitemap files to Google :  Once you have created your Sitemap and have uploaded it onto your server, then you should submit it major search engines so that they can find it easily. When it comes with Google you have  three simple ways using which you can submit Sitemap files at Google.

Using Google Webmaster Tools :
Using Google Webmaster Tool is most preferred way for making Google aware of sitemap file you have for your website. Google webmaster tool is very useful for all webmasters. There are may advantages if you are submitting your sitemap through Google Webmaster Tool like you’ll always have direct feedback about how your Sitemap files were downloaded , how they were recognized where it was in right format and what happened to the web pages listed in them, does any of page where have been indexed ?
Before you submit your Sitemap files you need to make sure that your website is verified in Webmaster Tools, once approved you need to go to “Sitemaps” in Webmaster Tools and enter the file name of your Sitemap(s).

Listing Sitemap files in the robots.txt file :
You can use another way of submitting a Sitemap file if you don’t want to use Google Webmaster Tool, in this case you will have to specify the URL in your robots.txt file.
Using this method your sitemap file could be easily found by all major search engines that support Sitemap protocol
As in this process you can specify the full URL of your Sitemap file in your robots.txt file thus using this method you can store your Sitemap file on a different domain. If you are using this method then the sitemap would not be get listed in your webmaster Tools account, you will have to add it manually to your account.

Using an HTTP “ping” :
If your site is dynamic site where pages are created dynamically then in this case you you can generate sitemap files automatically, and for such automatically created sitemaps the best way for submitting/resubmitting them is to access the “ping” URL for Google Sitemaps. You can use this method even if  your Sitemap file is kept on a different server, but you must still verify both sites in your Webmaster Tools.

All search engines that are members of sitemaps.org support a similar way of submitting general web Sitemap files.

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This post was written by on January 13, 2009

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Youtube with Widescreen Video format.

Recently Youtube have updated their video player with wider aspect ration, till now you use to see all video with 4:3 aspect ratio ie small video screen but recent advancement in its video player which is having aspect ratio of16:9 have offered you wider screen, thus now you can watch all your favorite video clips and movies in wider format. Youtube have also changed their webpage design and have modified webpage width to 960px so that this new player would easily have its place in webpages,  still all videos having 4:3 aspect ratio would be played fine in this new player.

Till now, all the video files have their default embed codes with size as before having width of 425 px and height of 344 px but you can change video size, you can edit height/width tags for your embed code for the new one.

Youtube also have an option for “theatre view” in which you will get enlarge player and bigger video screen and  the rest of page will fades out surrounding with virtual red curtains giving you a perfect Home Theatre experience.

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This post was written by on December 1, 2008

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How to add a range of IPs on a BSD box.

FreeBSD is a popular free Unix like open source operating system that is based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of the Unix operating system. FreeBSD runs only on the Intel PC platform (i386 and higher) having atleast Pentium processor and also on amd64, Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC processors. You can consider FreeBSD as an alternative to Linux which will run Linux applications. Its said that its fast, stable, and is appropriate for Internet server or as a file server. FreeBSD supports all major X Window desktops, such as KDE and GNOME.

If you want to add Dedicated IPs on server having FreeBSD you need to follow following instructions.
First login to your FreeBSD server as a ‘non-root’ user. You should have an account in the ‘wheel’ group. Once you logged in your server just run the following commands to switch users to ‘root’

su -
Password:
server#

you will get command prompt as ‘#’ which indicates that you are operating server as ‘root’ user. Now run following commands as root :
ee /etc/rc.conf

now for example, if we want to add 4 IPs for your server [ 192.168.1.3 - 192.168.1.6 ] you need to implement following :
Code:
ifconfig_fxp0=”inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.248″
ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=”inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.255?
ifconfig_fxp0_alias1=”inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.255?
ifconfig_fxp0_alias2=”inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.255?
ifconfig_fxp0_alias3=”inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.255?

Note that changes to the _aliasNN and also the netmask changes to 255.255.255.255 from 255.255.255.248. The IP’s will not work unless you use a 255.255.255.255 netmask for the alias IP’s.

Once you added the entries to your file you need to press ‘ESC’ and have to save this file. You need to reboot the server so that all new IP’s would get bounded with your server and you can use them.
You have other option too, you can also use ifconfig command for adding IP’s on your server, in this case you don’t have to reboot your server. You can also add extra Dedicated IPs if you have WHM/cPanel control panel with your server. just login to your WHM account and add new Dedicated IP using WHM >> Add a new IP.

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This post was written by on November 25, 2008