A directory is simply a web site that contains a categorized listing of links from all around the web. Submitting to directories such as Yahoo, dmoz and many more can be considered as an important part of an SEO. They can bring a huge traffic to your site and can be considered as an important tool in building links, also help in improving page rank.

There are various directories present on the web, they range from general directories that include categories for almost everything, to specific directories that contain categories to match specific area/s of interest. The submission can be free or paid or both depending on the popularity of a particular directory.Once you submit your site it takes some time to get listed in directory (Free inclusion can take several months, paid inclusion a few days )

You have to provide following information when submitting to directories:
When submitting a link to a directory you will more than likely be asked to provide the following information about your web site:

• URL
• Title
• Description
• Keywords that describe it

Before getting into directory submission try to have these information in advance and use the same information when submitting to all directories. Always place keyphrases that describe your web site into the Title text and Description text you submit, especially into the Title text.

Tips when submitting to directories:

*) Submit your link to the most appropriate category :
Every directory have many categories in them, so choose the most relevant form it.
This will ensure your fast listing and may help in boosting your page rank.

*) Be patient :
If you have submitted for free listing you will have to be patient. It can take several months for getting your sites listed in that directory as these are free submission they are treated as less valued.

*) Keep a log :
Once you submitted your site in a particular directory then you should keep this information in a log file ( directory name : date of submission : status ) and when you find that your site listed in a particular directory just change the status as “done”. This will prevents you from submitting to a directory more than once, which may the process of listing to start again and will take time.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database system that provides hostname-to-IP resource mapping (usually the IP address) and other information for computers on an internetwork. Any computer on the Internet can use a DNS server to locate any other computer on the Internet.

DNS is made up of two distinct components, the hierarchy and the name service. The DNS hierarchy specifies the structure, naming conventions, and delegation of authority in the DNS service. The DNS name service provides the actual name-to-address mapping mechanism.

Each organization that maintains a computer network will have at least one server which is handling DNS queries. That server is called a name server.
Each computer on each network needs to know the location of only one name server. When your computer requests an IP address, one of three things happens, depending on whether or not the requested IP address is within your local network:

1) If the requested IP address is registered locally (i.e., it’s within your organization’s network), you’ll receive a response directly from one of the local name servers listed in your workstation configuration.

2) If the requested IP address is not registered locally (i.e., outside your organization’s network), but someone within your organization has recently requested the same IP address, then the local name server will retrieve the IP address from its cache. There should be little or no wait for a response.

3) If the requested IP address is not registered locally, and when you are accessing it first time then the local name server will perform a search on behalf of your workstation. This search may involve querying two or more other name servers at potentially very remote locations. These queries can take anywhere from a second or two up to a minute (depending on how well connected you are to the remote network and how many intermediate name servers must be contacted). Sometimes, due to the lightweight protocol used for DNS, you may not receive a response. In these cases, your workstation or client software may continue to repeat the query until a response is received, or you may receive an error message.

When you use an application such as telnet to connect to another computer, you most likely type in the domain name rather than the IP address of that computer. The telnet application takes the domain name and uses one of the above methods to retrieve its corresponding IP address from the name server.

The Keyword Tool generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends. Start your search by entering your own keyword phrases or a specific URL. You can then add new keywords to the green box at the right.

To test the keyword tool follow the following steps:

Step 1: Visit the keyword tool

Step 2: Enter a keyword such as ” Webhosting UK ”
Step 3: Go to the drop-down menu and select the right option as per your need.

Google displays the result in the form of bars. The result includes the total search volume month by month and it also shows the month in which the search rate is maximum.

This article explains how to set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on an Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0 computer, using Certificate Server 2.0 as the certificate provider.

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First, the Web server must make a certificate request. To do this, follow these steps:
Start the Internet Service Manager (ISM), which loads the Internet Information Server snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
Right-click the Web site on which you want to enable SSL, and click Properties.
Click the Directory Security tab, and then click Server Certificate to start the Web server Certificate Wizard.
Click Next to start the wizard, and select Create a new certificate.
Click Next, and select Prepare the request now, but send it later.
Click Next, and give your certificate a name. You may want to match it with the name of the Web site. Now, select a bit length; the higher the bit length, the stronger the certificate encryption. Select Server Gated Cryptography if your users may be coming from countries with encryption restrictions.
Click Next, and type your Organization and Organizational Unit. These values do not need to match any Active Directory entries.
Click Next, and enter the common name. The common name must match the fully qualified domain name of the server as listed in DNS. For example, if the URL is ” mydomain.com/securedir ” , then the common name must be www.mydomain.com.
Click Next, and type your country, state, and city or locality. Type the full name of your state here; do not abbreviate.
Click Next, and select a location and file name to save your request to.
Click Next twice, and then click Finish to close the wizard.

Process your request through Certificate Server. To do this, follow these steps:

Browse to caservername/CertSrv , and select Request a certificate.

NOTE: Do not use “localhost” as the server name. If you browse from the Certificate Server computer, use the computer name instead.

Click Next and select Advanced request.
Click Next and select Submit a certificate request using a base64 encoded PKCS #10 file or a renewal request using a base64 encoded PKCS #7 file.
Click Next, and open the request file that you saved from the Web Certificate Wizard in Notepad. Paste the entire text of the file, including the BEGIN and END lines, into the Base64 Encoded Certificate Request text box.
Click Submit. You may be presented with a Certificate Pending dialog box. If you are prompted for download, skip to step 2j.
Close your browser. On the Certificate Server computer, open the Certification Authority MMC.
Expand the tree underneath the server name, and select the Pending Requests folder. Right-click the certificate that you just submitted (scroll to the right for more information to determine which certificate is yours if there are several pending), click All Tasks, and then click Issue. You may now close the Certification Authority MMC.

Open a new browser window, and browse to the URL that is listed in step a. Select Check on a pending certificate.
Click Next, and select the request that you made earlier.
Click Next, select DER encoded, and then click the Download CA certificate link. Save the certificate file to your Web server’s local drive, and close your Web browser.
Now, finish processing the request within IIS to install the certificate to the server, and enable SSL.

Open the Internet Information Services MMC, right-click the Web site on which you want to enable SSL, and click Properties.
Click the Directory Security tab, then click Server Certificate.
Click Next, and select Process the pending request and install the certificate.
Click Next, and enter the path and file name of the certificate that you saved in the last section.
Click Next twice, and then click Finish to complete the wizard.
Click the Web Site tab, and make sure that the SSL Port text box is populated with the port you would like SSL to run on. The default (and recommended) port is 443.
Click OK to close the Web site Properties dialog box.

You can now use SSL on your server. Test the setup by connecting to the Web site’s home page by using https instead of http. You have a valid connection if the page comes up and a small lock appears in the status bar in the lower right-hand corner of the browser.

Reference: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299525

It is just not necessary to use the default DNS server in Windows. You can ofcourse install and
use ISC BIND (though I still prefer dear old MS DNS
Download links are as follows

“isc.org/products/BIND/bind8.html”
Setting up and configuring BIND on Windows might turn out to be nightmare
Anyway, here goes
Section 1: Location of files
[C:\Program Files\DNS\bin\]
In this folder are all the executeables that came with BIND.
[C:\Program Files\DNS\etc]
In this folder are all configuration files. This includes:
named.conf — main BIND configuration file

rndc.key — required for rndc to manage your BIND server

root.hint — a hint to BIND as to what the root servers are

named.pid — created by BIND when running

example.com.zone — zone file containing my example zone

1.0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.zone — zone file for reverse lookup
[C:\Program Files\DNS\log]
Create this folder to store my log files in
[C:\Program Files\DNS\manual]
help files and other text files were placed in this folder
Section 2: Configuration
I’m not going to teach you how to configure your server
Refer to the manuals for details . However here are someworkign examples
serialcoders.sytes.net/BIND/
Consider copying those files in to their respective directories on your server
and modifying them
To remotely test your BIND servers:
serialcoders.sytes.net/cgi-bin/DNS/index.pl?lr=3