SAMSA Offers Web Site Search Add-On Tool

Internet search engine software ht://Dig is a great add-on for your web site. Licensed under GNU General Public License, the tool itself is free of cost to use. For a modest fee, SAMSA can install the system to your site for you. The features of this beneficial web site tool are numerous:

Search Related Features:

• Intranet searching allows for many servers on a network to be searched by the ht://Dig tool which acts like a browser
• Boolean searches allow users to conduct complex searches by using Boolean expressions like "AND" "OR" and "NOT" to narrow down the amount of search results
• The "search depth" for documents can be from many sets of machines to a lesser, more restricted number
• Search results can be configured as you desire, HTML templates are provided
• Algorithms can be specified to aid in searches. These include search for exact match, synonym, metaphone, and substring and prefix, amongst many others
• HTML, PDF, and plain text files are searchable.
• Keywords can be added to documents with the means to make them more visible and ranked a high match for users searching such terms (keywords will not show on the document when it is viewed)
• Sub-search database sections by setting up a search in which documents with a particular URL pattern are returned. This is especially useful if you want to make your data searchable but don't want to use another database or search engine to do so.

Security Related and Other Features:

• The ability to be reminded via e-mail of expired documents is a result of meta information attached to HTML documents that notifies the owner to remove or modify something on a page, such as images that are labeled but no longer "New"
• Protect documents from unauthorized users by signing a name and password for ht://Dig to use when retrieving documents. This can be used to index parts of a server that are protected.
• WWW Robots (also commonly known as Spiders) exclusion

 

Yahoo Inc. Introduces New Web Site Product

In competition to shine in the limelight and regain its "futuristic" search engine popularity, Yahoo Inc. has recently introduced a product that will be of great value to web masters and site owners alike.

With Yahoo! Search Builder, users are able to add custom Web search functionality to their site. What does this mean? You can create a search engine on your own website. It can be geared for whatever your website's topic may be.

From your website, a customer can input a keyword(s) to search for. They may then choose to search for it on your site or on the Web. What is exciting about the Web search option is that you handpick trustworthy sites to set as ones to search when this option is chosen. This opens up doors for networking with organizations that complement your own. For example, a supplier and manufacturer of similar items that both use this tool could help send traffic to one another. Yahoo! Builder includes a News search feature as well.

Web masters and/or site owners analyze their "mini search engine" to see what searches users are conducting through it. Traffic and user reports are also generated, giving owners an idea about the growth of their engine.

The success of this new tool depends on how many web gurus adopt it. Even in its early life, it is being compared to prestigious competitors and its potential functionality ranks among the highest. The downfall of this tool is that site owners aren't able to monetize, at the present time, on the user searches.

See how SAMSA can help you meet your Internet marketing needs.

 

SAMSA Strives to Stay atop the Latest Technology

On Tuesday, August 1, 2006, SAMSA added RAM (Random Access Memory) to their UNIX server. This doubling of memory ensures the greatest success in keeping client websites running at top notch performance. There are currently 100-150 customer websites running on the server.

In the near future, SAMSA will be purchasing a different server to replace its present UNIX one. The new server will be roughly twice as powerful as the present one. It will also have nearly triple the amount of storage space.

What does this mean for clients? In general, more capacity will be able to be devoted to client websites. With the extra space, SAMSA will be able to upgrade a majority of software to their newest versions that tout more capabilities. The implementation of the new web server is planned to take place within the next two months.

 

The Importance of Monitoring your Web-Based Business's Downtime

Most E-Commerce businesses don't operate their own servers. They outsource it to a professional organization, relying on them to keep all aspects like databases, email, and shopping cart software properly running. It's important to monitor the amount of downtime that your website experiences. Left unnoticed, it could be a disaster discovered too late to fix.

Potential customers are skeptical to do business with an establishment that doesn't have a professionally aesthetic and clean running site. If people visit your site and find it unavailable, they may move on and fulfill their needs by a competitor. Professionalism is crucial!

Even though your web site may be accessible, it's important to check that all of its special and critical features are working. Customers get frustrated when they want to purchase a product but the shopping cart isn't working. You could lose a great deal of business in one day if no one is aware that a problem exists. The bottom line result of this is suffering revenue.

Search engine spiders visit your website both in its uptime and downtime. However, if a page is down, your search engine ranking for that page could suffer. It's possible for it to drop from a higher position or completely fall off the charts if it is down for too long.

If you're using a pay-per-click service, visitors that attempt to view your site when it is down most often results in a charge to your advertising account. Your advertising dollars are being wasted when this occurs.

Every website experiences an error or downtime at some point. The key to deterring frequent downtime periods is being proactive about searching for problems and having a plan to get problems fixed as quickly as possible.

Web failure is possible to avoid when you choose the right professionals to keep your site fully running and functioning. The SAMSA team cares about your success and offers a Network Uptime Maintenance Plan, E-Commerce Solutions, and other Internet Services to meet your needs.

SAMSA most recently added RAM (Random Access Memory) to its UNIX server which doubles its memory to ensure smooth running of client sites.