So I was visiting with a friend last night, and he indicated that he was having a bit of a problem with his WSS 3.0 installation.  Short story is that he has a dedicated Win2k8 box acting as a web server on his domain for internal sites.  They have several web-based LOB apps that run on that box, all as virtual directories under the default web site.  Even though they are running SBS 2003 with its WSS 2.0 companyweb, they wanted to install WSS 3 to take advantage of the new wiki site template.  So, they installed WSS 3 on the web server, which immediately broke their LOB apps. So what happened? When you first install WSS 3.0 and run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard, SharePoint creates a new web application (SharePoint – 80) and creates a new web site in IIS that takes over the default site.  Dana recognized this, so within IIS he edited the bindings for the SharePoint site to use port 81, allowing him to re-enable the original default website in IIS and get his LOB apps back.  The problem?  Not only was it a pain having to enter :81 after the servername to access the site, but clicking links on the SharePoint site continued to want to use port 80, resulting in constant 404 errors. So how did we fix it? If you’re new to SharePoint, it is worth taking a little time to explain some of the architecture and terminology around SharePoint 3.0 to help put the answer in to context.  First, it is important to understand the distinction between a SharePoint web application, and an IIS web site.  SharePoint (whether WSS or MOSS) can have multiple web applications.  These are created via SharePoint Central Administration.  You can think of a SharePoint Web Application as your top-level SharePoint site – but it is distinctly different from a website in IIS.  An IIS site that is mapped to a SharePoint web application can be thought of as a gateway to access the SharePoint web application.  You can delete the site from IIS without affecting any of the content in the SharePoint application.  (Obviously you won’t be able to access the SharePoint web application without an IIS site, but none of the SharePoint web application content or configuration is stored in the IIS site).  There are several benefits to this approach – including the ability to have multiple IIS sites mapped to a single web application, with each site being bound by a different SharePoint security zone.  The distinction between the web application and the IIS site in Dana’s situation is that the original IIS site that was bound to port 80 with no host header was separate from the actual SharePoint web application, and even though that was the initial IIS site created to access the SharePoint web application, it isn’t necessary to use that IIS site. The simplest solution for Dana was to create a new IIS site that used a host header to access his SharePoint w ...

What is Link Popularity? or Link Popularity Building Services Link popularity is one of the most important factors in top search engine ranking. Search Engines give importance to the web site which have incoming or backward links from quality and theme based related web sites. Search engines consider these incoming links as VOTE for your web site which is given by others quality web sites to select your web site on top or as winner web site in search results. It does not mean the number of sites pointing to your site is your link popularity and the more links for your web site, the higher your ranking will be. Search Engine are very intellegent and they have very advanced ranking algorithms to find the relevancy of incoming links related to your web site. How does Link Popularity work ? Here's an example of how I believe link popularity works: Let's say that "Hotels Web Site" Web site has a link to "Web hosting web site". This probably won't help "Web hosting web site" link popularity for the keywords "Web Hosting" However, if both "Hotel Web Site and Web Hosting Web Site" are located in the India and in both the India keyword is mentioned on the page some where, and people are searching for "india web hosting" the quality of that link, may have just gone up a little. There's now a common word (India) between the sites. It probably won't help for those people simply searching for "Web Hosting", but may help if they're searching specifically for "Web Site Hosting in India". A higher quality link for "Web Hosting Web Site", however, would be one from "Web Hosting Related Pages or Directories," which has a theme of "web hosting". That is exactly the kind of link that the search engines would credit toward link popularity. The key is in having that common thread between the sites. What to do to increase the link Popularity ? Directories Listing It is important to note that the sheer number of incoming links is not as important as the quality of the sites that are doing the linking. It is important to get listed in the popular directories, such as Yahoo and the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org). yahoo can list for free for non-commercial sites ( Although it takes a while to get listed) otherwise you have to pay for listing in Yahoo Diretory and while listing in DMOZ search the proper deep category in the directory and read the guidelines and submit your web site. More directories you can search on the google like joeant.com, goguides.org, galaxy.com etc... Finding Link Partners After directory listing, search for theme based link partner web sites or theme based web site, when i say theme based i alwasy mean that if your web site is related to "web hosting" business, then search web hosting and web services web sites to get links. . Google is a best search engine to use when looking for theme linking partners by typing "your keyword + links" . Typing in keywords that you think your customers might use to find you, look for quali ...

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