Australian Website guides

Written by Ian Bruce


Some important facts for Australian business owners.

Domain Names.

Purchasing a .com.au requires an ABN. A standard price for a .com.au is about $100AUD

Try to buy a domain that has your main product/keywords in it. For example abc.com.au tells us nothing, but kidsclothes.com.au tells us what you are about.

Andrepparttar search engines will love you for this!

Remmeber, with domain names, small is beautiful - you are going to have to spell it to lots of people everyday, so be consise.

Your Website.

Most people browserepparttar 132268 search engines for purchases these days, so you have to be listed. There are no real magic solutions to get you on Google page 1, but if you dorepparttar 132269 following, it will maximise your chances of a great listing:

1.Search engine friendly design. No frames, redirects, over use of flash/scripting.

Review: Implementing the Google Search Appliance in an Intranet environment

Written by Bryan A. Mjaanes


Our corporate intranet is a non-framed environment with both Lotus Domino and IIS (.Net and classic ASP) applications and content. We have between 300,000-500,000 pages of web content and documents across more than 1200 “sites” on approximately 30 unique domains. We used to have Inktomi’s UltraSeek Server 3.0 as our intranet search engine which was beginning to look like its age (purchased in 1998). The Inktomi product did not handle attachments well (DOC, PPT, PDF, etc.), would not crawl our secured sites, and was no longer supported byrepparttar vendor. We did a cursory review ofrepparttar 132266 search vendors and were immediately attracted to Google’s 30 day trial offer for their Google Search Appliance (GSA). After signing a standard agreement, they shipped us a brand new shiny yellow unit which we could test for 30 days before returning or purchasing.

Product info The GSA is a “black box” 1U standard rack-mountable server. By “black box” I mean, Google gives you a web interface to administerrepparttar 132267 device but do not want you to accessrepparttar 132268 Operating System (a heavily Google-customized version of Linux). In fact,repparttar 132269 license agreement stipulates that you will not tamper withrepparttar 132270 hardware or OS ofrepparttar 132271 appliance in any way. The device has no need for a keyboard, mouse or video – all you need for normal operation is a network cable and standard power input.

The GSA comes in different flavors to fit different needs varying by size ofrepparttar 132272 hardware and correspondingly size ofrepparttar 132273 license. (Licensing is based onrepparttar 132274 number of URLs crawled byrepparttar 132275 appliance.) There are 3 different hardware configurations;repparttar 132276 GB-1001, GB-5005, and GB-800. These are broken down as follows;

  • GB-1001 – 150K documents for $28K, 300K documents for $50K
  • GB-5005 – 1.5M documents for $230K
  • GB-8008 – 4M documents for $450K

Why Google? As advertised,repparttar 132277 GSA met all of our needs being able to indexrepparttar 132278 large variety of filetypes we have in our environment, access secured content, having a documented API, etc. The Google brand power was another big selling factor. When we told our users that they were going to get a Google-based search engine they knew their days of troubled searching were over. Lastly,repparttar 132279 30-day trial run experience we had withrepparttar 132280 GSA sealedrepparttar 132281 deal. The appliance isrepparttar 132282 easiest enterprise solution I’ve ever had to install, configure and maintain. We were literally up and running within an hour of openingrepparttar 132283 shipping box.

Installation The appliance has two network ports onrepparttar 132284 back panel; one for normal operation andrepparttar 132285 other used exclusively for network configuration. To configurerepparttar 132286 network settings we connected a laptop torepparttar 132287 appliance via a special (some pin-outs are non-standard) orange Ethernet cable which is included. The installation process was about as easy as one can imagine for a “black box.”

First we plugged inrepparttar 132288 normal operation network cable and thenrepparttar 132289 power. The power plug onrepparttar 132290 appliance ISrepparttar 132291 power switch; plug it in to turn on and unplug it to turn it off. After plugging it in, we waited about 5 minutes forrepparttar 132292 appliance to play a tune which isrepparttar 132293 signal to continue. Next, we hooked up our laptop (already set to DHCP mode) torepparttar 132294 appliance and powered it up. After logging in to our laptop and making sure we hadrepparttar 132295 correct IP assigned byrepparttar 132296 appliance’s built-in DHCP server we are ready to configurerepparttar 132297 network settings. Total elapsed time (excluding rack mounting): 10 minutes.

Configuration Network configuration, like normal administration, is done entirely through a browser and is a simple 5 step process. The first screens ask you for basic network information; IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS. Subsequent screens collect SMTP server, “From” address for GSA notification messages, time zone, NTP (time) servers andrepparttar 132298 admin account name/password. The last step is to test a few URLs which you will be crawling to make sure you’ve donerepparttar 132299 setup correctly. After a final settings review screen configuration is complete and you can then unplug your laptop and get torepparttar 132300 good part; start crawling. Total elapsed time: 10 minutes.

Crawlingrepparttar 132301 site(s) Usingrepparttar 132302 URL provided, all administration ofrepparttar 132303 GSA is done remotely. After logging in withrepparttar 132304 ID/password we provided inrepparttar 132305 previous step, we were presented withrepparttar 132306 Administration console. We created a new collection to hold our index, put inrepparttar 132307 “Start crawling from” URL, copied that same URL intorepparttar 132308 “Follow and Crawl only URLs withrepparttar 132309 Following patterns” box and we were done. We saved our settings and then clickedrepparttar 132310 “Start crawling” button. We then went over torepparttar 132311 “Crawl status” screen and watchedrepparttar 132312 “Crawled URLs” counter increase. Google advertises that it can crawl about 4,000 URLs in about 15 minutes or so. We foundrepparttar 132313 crawl time would increase significantly if there are documents (Word, PDF, Excel, etc.) linked to from those URLS.

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