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Internationalized Domain Names

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Internationalized Domain Names

In this age of Information Technology (IT) with the entire Globe being integrated into a web-linked village with the knowledge as the sole differentiator, development of convivial Access Technology has gained prime importance. Especially for India, with its diverse and multi-lingual heritage and culture, the Internet is expected to play dominant integrating role for integrating almost all aspects of social and economic endeavor.

To ensure that India and Indian languages have their rightful place in the fast-evolving scenario, CDAC GIST undertook research and study of various IDN related RFCs and their applicability vis-à-vis Indian Languages. The pilot study was under the aegis of the DIT.

The main aim was dual :

Primarily to ensure that a user can create and access URL’s in his own language and
Closely associated with the above, to ensure that the average user who is little aware of spoofing or phishing or pharming does not suffer financial loss or identity loss. Thus an average user doesn’t care about a seemingly trivial URL string unless he comes across it inadvertently and gets robbed. For him,
वीत्त.भारत and.वीत.भारत look the same. By clicking on the worng URL, (s)he could be phished or pharmed.

To prevent such spoofing and phishing attacks in IL scenario, a careful study of some scripts is done by CDAC GIST, especially in the area of homographs: characters and their combinations which look alike but are different in reality, as in the example given above.

Over the past three years CDAC Pune in close association with DIT and with contributions from CDAC Kolkata and Thiruvanathapuram has evolved a policy document for Internationalized Domain Names in Indian Languages. A certain number of Scripts and Languages have also been identified and the requirements for each have been detailed out in the course of meetings: Devanagari (Marathi, Hindi, Konkani, Sanskrit and Nepali), Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, and Bangla to name the major languages have been handled. With the maturity of the policy it is time to involve the implementers of the project: the Registrars, Sub-Registrars and Industry at large and make them aware of the major issues underlying the allocation of Internationalized Domain Names in Indian Languages and obtain useful feedback from them.

Search Engine Optimization, How To Get Started by Ricardo d Argence

Traffic is exposure. If no one knows how to find your website or blog, then you will only be showing off your great site to friends and family. Page optimization refers to search engine optimization techniques used directly in the construction of web pages. And SEO is more than just engine optimization, it’s about optimizing the page for human readers. If you really do that, serch engines will be glad with that.
Monitoring your use of keywords is important, as well as making sure your website’s content is indispensable. Stay away from keyword stuffing for it not only makes your website appear to be unintelligent and unprofessional but because search engines have caught on they penalize for the overuse of keywords. The goal is using keywords realistically and prudently. Keywords are often solely used to attract web search traffic.

Even as traditional SEO identifies a keyword density of 2-7% as being optimal for on page optimization, changes in Google’s search engine operations indicate that a density of only 1-2% may be preferable (and readable). Create a list of words that can be used as search terms relating to your topic and use them in different places throughout your site. Latent Semantic Index powered by Google (LSI)algorithm will also reward you for the use of similar phrases.

Keywords do not necessarily have to be restricted to the content of your page. Keywords need to be emphasized in page titles. A search engine recognizes your page content based heavily on the words you choose to utilize in your page titles. Without using keywords in the title pages, one must have many outside links that point to the specific page to increase web traffic. Keywords, when being integrated into your titles, should be placed as near the beginning of the title as is possible, but ensure that it is easily comprehended. It is important to have a page title for optimal results, as this becomes the link associated with the page in the search engine results.

Be sure that every page of your website has a short page title using the most important keywords for the page. Keep in mind that search engines will only display set numbers of characters in each search result. Generally speaking, it is enough to only use a keyword once in a title – to use the keyword two or three times is repetitive.

Meta tags is a term you may read about when reading about “on page optimization” but because it was widely abused by spam, search engines don’t acknowledge them. There are very few SEO professionals who continue to depend on meta tags for web page optimization. If you decide to go ahead, make sure you only use meta keywords and descriptions so that these words and phrases show up on the page and are not going to be considered spam.

Links from your site to other related pages will also enhance the popularity of your search engine. Consequently, it is imperative that the links provided are real and sent to sites with similar content that adds value to the visitors. Page optimization is not hard to institute and given that you offer the visitors to your site excellent and relevant content, it will largely benefit the success you will have with the search engines.

Why Web Hosting Reviews Matter by Sean.Ray

It’s a tough task to choose a web hosting service provider. The most difficult thing during this process is not to find a cheapest one but how to find a reliable web hosting solution which won’t put your online business in risk. One effective method to make your way through the puzzle is to consult web hosting provider reviews.
There are many places you can find the web hosting review. They could be the reviews from the professional editors, or the reviews from their customers. The most important messages you should look at from a web hosting review site are the customer service and the comparison between different solutions.

1) Nothing can be more important than the customer service of a web hosting vendor. A worse support can hurt all the effort on your site. Usually, the people who get poor or great support would like to share their experience. Don’t miss this part of message from a review site, and try to avoid signing up with those with bad customer review.

2) Another great thing is that you can already find you have a new choice when reading the product review. Some reviews site also provides a tools for you to compare the features of different web hosting solution to help you make a better choice.

But should you fully trust what are in web hosting reviews, below are something you should keep in mind when reading those reviews.

1) Some professional reviews are not the true review. They affiliate the web hosting products and write very good review for the product to attract you to purchase the products. There are many this types of site but usually are small sites since they tend to more focus on the short term benefit instead of the long term earning.

2) Customers review could be fake. Web Hosting is probably one of the most competitive business online. There are many cases that web hosting companies hire people to write good review for their own and bad review for their competitors.

So, when reading the review, try to get the message from the big web hosting review sits, they have many ways to avoid fake and maintain objective reviews for a web hosting solutions.

Want to know more about web hosting, please refer to web hosting review and webmaster tutorials from affordable web hosting.

About the Author
Sean.Ray is an expert on online business. He has more than 10 years working experience of guiding people to create their own online business. webhostingclue.comis his web site where he shares the knowledge about how to find appropriate web hosting solution for a small online business and promote it online.

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Why Go For Web Hosting? by Jim Jameson

For one reason, publishing of either personal or business content online would not be possible if it weren’t for web hosting. As this answers to almost everything about web hosting, it is much better to somehow dig a little deeper into it.

Web hosting is a type of internet service providing people with a space to display almost anything on the World Wide Web. Since people today are living in an environment exposed to lots of technological advancements, being seen on the Internet is a means to widen your audience. Hosts of web sites are actually servers that store all of the contents and can be accessed by anyone as long as an Internet connection is available.

How it works is basically like renting a space to put up a store where anyone can come in and out to look around or buy anything. In technical terms, the hosts of web sites are the ones providing space for any data which can be easily located by anyone who will surf the Internet. Ones the space is already rented or set up, an IP address is given that serves just like a home address so that the space can be located.

It really sounds easy and if one already knows how to design or build a website, it’s much easier needing only a web hosting service to put the contents up and running. There are actually a lot of web hosting service providers nowadays, but they can be somewhat summed up into two types; the paid and the free web hosting service. The type of web hosting necessary depends on the content to be placed on the web.

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