October, 2008

How to Create Sitemaps for multiple sites

If you have multiple websites, you can simplify the process of creating and submitting Sitemaps by creating one or more Sitemaps that includes URLs for all your verified sites, and saving the Sitemap(s) to a single location. All sites must be verified in Webmaster Tools. You can choose to use: A single Sitemap that includes [...]

How to use Standalone XML Sitemap Generator

A sitemap is a way of organizing a website, identifying the URLs and the data under each section. Previously, the sitemaps were primarily geared for the users of the website. However, Google’s XML format was designed for the search engines, allowing them to find the data faster and more efficiently.

How to configure Standalone XML Sitemap Generator

The priority of a particular URL relative to other pages on the same site. The value for this tag is a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your site and 1.0 identifies the highest priority page(s) on your site.
The default priority of a page is 0.5.

How to Install Standalone XML Sitemap Generator

By placing a formatted xml file with site map on your webserver, you enable Search Engine crawlers (like Google) to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly

Nachi worm – How to prevent this virus from infecting your computer

On August 18, 2003, the Microsoft Product Support Services Security Team issued an alert to inform customers about a new worm. A worm is a type of computer virus that generally spreads without user action and that distributes complete copies (possibly modified) of itself across networks (such as the Internet). Generally known as “Nachi,” this new worm exploits the vulnerabilities that were addressed by Microsoft Security Bulletins MS03-026 (823980) and MS03-007 (815021) to spread itself over networks by using open Remote Procedure Call (RPC) ports or the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol that is supported by Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0.

How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting

The procedure that this article describes uses Recovery Console and System Restore. This article also lists all the required steps in specific order to make sure that the process is fully completed. When you finish this procedure, the system returns to a state very close to the state before the problem occurred. If you have ever run NTBackup and completed a system state backup, you do not have to follow the procedures in parts two and three. You can go to part four

How to Configure Security in Windows XP Professional

When Simple file sharing is enabled, the user is presented with the Simple File Sharing UI rather than the classic “Security” and “Sharing” tabs. This new UI is implemented by default in Windows XP, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows XP Professional when working in a workgroup. However, the computer is started in Safe mode, the ACL editor is displayed.

How to list down all partition tables and mounted linux devices

At times, listing down all partition tables and mounted linux devices gives us a better view of what storage devices and partition types does your linux box have. Here’s a simple approach on how to list down all linux partition tables and devices from your linux box. List Down Linux Partition Tables Simply issue # [...]

Find and Fix Broken Links – xml-sitemaps.com

Link management is a very important and absolutely essential part of maintaining a website. Broken links can stop search engine robots dead in its tracks, effectively preventing it from completely indexing a website.

How to Secure your Wireless Network from outside attacks

These days wireless networking products are so ubiquitous and inexpensive that just about anyone can set up a WLAN in a matter of minutes with less than $100 worth of equipment. This widespread use of wireless networks means that there may be dozens of potential network intruders lurking within range of your home or office WLAN.

How to install and configure drivers on Windows

Almost all computer and hardware manufacturers include a group of drivers for different hardware devices and often for each of the supported versions of Windows. For example, the driver CD you receive with your printer likely contains the drivers for dozens of different printers. Not just the printer you purchased, which means when installing the drivers make sure you’re installing the drivers for your printer, not another printer model and that you’re installing it for the version of Windows you’re running on your computer.