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Boosting Your Search Engine Rankings

Search Engine marketing is back in a big way. Many of my clients are looking for a way to increase their presence in Google and other popular search engines. I suggest the SE Boost Pack from Networking4Biz.

It is a great way to get your site (or page) listed in the search engines in a very cost effective way. I signed up for their service this week and I will keep you posted on how things go. I expect some pretty good things from them, as every review I have heard was nothing but positive.

Here are some of the things they claim to do for your site:

Drive more high qualified traffic to your web site by improving your search engine visibility.

Automate the process of monitoring your search engine keyword rankings across more than 300 global and regional organic search engines.

Use the new graphing capabilities to quickly monitor your SEO efforts.

Gain insight into the highest-value keywords, your web site’s link popularity and search engine saturation.

We submit your URLs to the search engines for you.

Improve your position for targeted keywords using built-in expertise which recommends ways to optimize your pages.

Schedule and automate the emailing of your WebPosition reports.

Enhanced Excel-based reporting capabilities allows you to monitor your search engine ranking information over time so you can identify trends and take appropriate action.

Track ranking information for an unlimited number of web sites and keywords - including your competitors!

Increase your ROI with organic search results powered by Networking4Biz SEBOOST PACK!

If anyone else tries them out, let me know how it works out for you.

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A Long Delay in FTP Connections

If you are experiencing a long delay from the time your FTP client connects to your FTP site and when the user prompt appears (or in the case of automated connections, a long hang before the directory listings appear), you may be having a case of Ident [time] Theft.

ProFTPd

To resolve this edit your FTP server’s config file and turn off Ident Lookups.

Open your proftpd.conf (/etc/proftpd.conf - may vary) file in your favorite text editor and look for IdentLookups and replace it with the following:

# Do not perform ident
IdentLookups                    off

If you are a reseller (or run multiple vhosts through ProFTPd) you can set this in each of the virtual hosts config or make it global like so:

<global>

# Do not perform ident
IdentLookups                    off

</global>

IPTables

You can also filter out the requests through iptables using the following:

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 113 -m state --state NEW -j REJECT
--reject-with tcp-reset

Hope this helps!

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