PowWeb’s Scripts List

Great web host service.
Powweb has now increased their Script lists to an amazing size. You are not limited to the scripts they offer, these are the default simple to use Scripts, Simple to install scripts by just clicking and following one sentence instruction and easy to uninstall. You can of course install your own scripts. They use the latest php and latest mysql. Leaving you with nearly no limitations of what php script you can install.
PowwebPowweb used to call the scripts section “install central” but now they call it Simple Scripts.
Of all domain hosts I have ever tried, powweb has the best support team and a huge community of hosting users like myself to swing in and help people who may have questions concerning their accounts or install procedures.
Powweb’s web hosting service is by far the fastest most dependable and helpful webhosting service.
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Script List

SimpleScripts currently installs and manages the following scripts.
Premium scripts and services offer enterprise level features, functionality and support.

Backups

Mozy Backups

Mozy Backups

Get 2 GB Free Backup Space

Blogs

Premium WordPress Themes

Premium WordPress Themes

Spice up your blog, instantly!
Install WordPress

WordPress

3.1 Popular
Install b2evolution

b2evolution

4.0.3
Install Textpattern

Textpattern

4.3.0
Install NucleusCMS

NucleusCMS

3.62
Install Geeklog

Geeklog

1.7.2

Business Tools

VOIP Services

VOIP Services

Internet Phone Reviews for Home/Office

Classifieds

Install Noah's Classifieds

Noah’s Classifieds

4.1.0

Client Management

QuickBooks

QuickBooks

Manage Clients, Invoices, and More
Install SugarCRM

SugarCRM

6.0.1
Install Simple Invoices

Simple Invoices

2010.2 update 1 New!

Content Management

Install Joomla

Joomla

1.6.0 Popular
Install Drupal

Drupal

7.0 Popular
Install MODx

MODx

2.0.7
Install e107

e107

0.7.24
Install Mambo

Mambo

4.6.5
Install XOOPS

XOOPS

2.5.0
Install PHP-Nuke

PHP-Nuke

8.0
Install phpwcms

phpwcms

1.4.7

eCommerce

Install CubeCart

CubeCart

3.0.20
Install OSCommerce

OSCommerce

2.3.1
Install Zen Cart

Zen Cart

1.3.9h
Install AgoraCart

AgoraCart

5.2.005
Install TomatoCart

TomatoCart

1.1.3 New!

Education

Install Moodle

Moodle

2.02
Install Omeka

Omeka

1.3.1 New!

Forms and Surveys

Install LimeSurvey

LimeSurvey

1.90+
Install phpFormGenerator

phpFormGenerator

2.09.c
Install AdvancedPoll

AdvancedPoll

3.0

Forums

Install Simple Machines Forum

Simple Machines Forum

1.1.13
Install phpBB

phpBB

3.0.8 Popular
Install bbPress

bbPress

1.0.2
Install PunBB

PunBB

1.3.4
Install Vanilla Forums

Vanilla Forums

2.0.17.8 New!

Groupware

Install Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

6.2

Guestbooks

Install GBook

GBook

1.7
Install Lazarus

Lazarus

1.13.5 New!

Help Center

Install osTicket

osTicket

1.6.0
Install Help Center Live

Help Center Live

2.1.7
Install Crafty Syntax Live Help

Crafty Syntax Live Help

3.1.0

Live Chat

Install phpFreeChat

phpFreeChat

1.3
Install X7Chat

X7Chat

2.0.5.1

Mailing Lists

iContact

iContact

Advanced Email Campaigns
Install Dada Mail

Dada Mail

4.3.1
Install phpList

phpList

2.10.13
Install poMMo

poMMo

16.1

Photo Galleries

Install Coppermine

Coppermine

1.5.12
Install Gallery

Gallery

3.0.1 Popular
Install Zenphoto

Zenphoto

1.4.0.1
Install Pixelpost

Pixelpost

1.7.3
Install 4images

4images

1.7.9

Project Management

BaseCamp

BaseCamp

Project Collaboration, Any Size
Install Mantis

Mantis

1.2.4
Install PHProjekt

PHProjekt

5.2.2

Real Estate

Install Open-Realty

Open-Realty

2.5.8

RSS

Install Gregarius

Gregarius

0.6.1
Install SimplePie

SimplePie

1.2

Social Networking

Install BuddyPress

BuddyPress

1.2.8
Install Pligg

Pligg

1.1.3

Statistics

Install Piwik

Piwik

1.1.1 New!

Utilities

Install ExtCalendar

ExtCalendar

2.0.b.2
Install phpMyFAQ

phpMyFAQ

2.6.15
Install WebCalendar

WebCalendar

1.2.3
Install PhpGedView

PhpGedView

4.2.4 New!

Webmail

Install Roundcube

Roundcube

0.5.1

Website Builders

Amazing Web Templates

Amazing Web Templates

6,000+ Pre-made Website Designs!
Install BasicPages

BasicPages

1.0 New!
Install liveSite

liveSite

7.0.1 New!
Install concrete5

concrete5

5.4.1.1

Wiki

Install MediaWiki

MediaWiki

1.16.2
Install WikkaWiki

WikkaWiki

1.2.sp.1
Install DokuWiki

DokuWiki

2010-11-07 New!
Install PmWiki

PmWiki

2.2.24

I have tried every web hosting service out there that other sites list as “top ten” and found that Powweb was in every single list. From bluehost to host gator , powweb has every good quality each other web hosting service has and more. I do not think the others are bad, I just think that powweb is the web hosting service for me. Everything I need is in an easy to use list of icons.

SEO KeyWord Analyzer

If you have been looking for an SEO Keyword Analyzer for your meta tags. I have one from seo centro.
This tool looks at your meta tags and your body text to see what you have and what you expect. Then it counts for repeated items to tell you what word is said and how many time. Then it does two word phrases and three word phrases. To locate certain specific search terms.
This helps you to better target your customers or readers for what they are actually searching for when they find your item or page for what it really is or is about.
meta tag Keyword usage is very important. If your keyword meta tag is filled with a bunch of gobbledy goop, that is not on your page, then you will not get categorized for what you are. No search engine allows fictional keyword tags. Your keywords say “hey this site is about “blah blah. If your key words do not match your content, you will be labeled as a junk website and it is a hard battle to get back up from that. A very hard long battle.

How to use this tool
Locate the URL box and type in your website address. Do not forget the “HTTP://” or the SEO Keyword Analyzer will not work properly. Locate the “Access code” box and type in the symbols located in the image above (I know…. I hate Captcha also). Press Submit and watch the magic.


Meta Tag Analyzer

Check your meta tags!
example: http://www.host.com.
URL 

 

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User Agent * (optional)


Please enter the access code as displayed above.
Access code


Online Meta Tag Analyzer
provide by SEOCentro.

Please bookmark this page and feel free to use when you feel you need .

You can then move to The Site Evaluation tool and see what your statistics and page rank with alexa rankings are on the web. This allows you to evaluate the value of your works.

How Bing Could Squash Google

Adsense. What is the easiest way Google makes certain their people who pay to be in the search engine get seen ? they share the wealth.
Bing has yet to even begin to try that. all they have to do is make an affiliate program to share the adverts with the websites out there.
Totally remove the whole Silverlight program. That and adobe air have got to be the clunkiest pieces of garbage. I don’t care how you improve it. A perfect turd is still a turd. Quit forcing people to hold that turd. I don’t want it in my computer, I don’t want a turd in my hand. Simply put, If I have to install that program to use your software, I will stop using your software.

Get yahoo off of Clicksor. I used to clicksor with all sorts of hopes of having an alternative to the goliath. I never made one red cent. Not one penny. I had a relative call me and tell me they clicked some ad on my old site, they said they bought something from one of the ads and never got their product. They thought I controlled it all. Clicksor never even noted the click. I did not tell my relative 700 miles away to click it. it was months later when I found out they did. Once they got tired of waiting for their products.
Clicksor then dropped me and said I didn’t have enough traffic. I had 200-2000 people a day. It fluctuated.

So having yahoo tied into something like that, surely isn’t helping them at all. Having a program where websites serve their ads for them will profit Bing and the website owners and would allow competition to Google’s adsense. Truth is adsense needs competition, they are getting a bit diva/spoiled princess.

When a person uses a search engine, they don’t want to be told how to search. People do searches like they think. They type it like they expect it to work. Not like they are told a search engine should be. Bing can do this if they just look at the most common searches. They all look like a question. Bing has this information. Google has this information. Yahoo, I have no idea why yahoo quit like that.

If you have suggestions for Bing or Yahoo post them here in a response.

The Seo Book We Should All Have

A good friend I know (I reference tons of stuff to her website) Alicia Crowder,  has a book out now called “SEO Standards for Beginners“.
If you are a web designer of new or professional status, this book is under $10 and a quick read. I assure you, there will be something in there that changes your knowledge about Search engine optimization.
Her description of the book is:

SEO Standards for Beginners is an informative book to help individuals and business owners better understand what SEO is and how to better compete in the online marketplace. Providing a general comprehension of the purpose of optimization, as well as practical methods for achieving better results online, this book will assist beginners in simplifying what is often otherwise bewildering.

I have had short encounters with her where we just sit and talk site building and SEO. Each sit in she says something that I have to study up on. Each time we have conversed she reminds me of stuff I have been neglecting to remember. Stuff I have been overlooking. This book is a must buy for anyone who needs crib notes, reminders, and new working ideas to build your website to comply to search engine needs.

She works for an SEO company. She has done so for as long as I have known her. She is great at what she does and has many large name clients ( I will not reveal or other seo companies may try and swoop em up). This book will be, for certain your best investment in web-design and site building as of yet. This book will help you in your quest to get to the front page of search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and the huge string of other search engines.

It would be foolish of a professional Search Engine Optimization person to pass up on a chance to find things they have been overlooking, to find things they never knew. Or to ever assume they know it all.

Go get Seo Standards for Beginners. It will be well worth your effort. Trust it is not just for beginners, I’m certain there is something for everyone in this book. I will be ordering mine Friday.

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SEO Standards for Beginners

The Official TruXtertech Toolbar

Official TruXtertech Toolbar

Got tired of Googling all of the tools I use on a regular basis and decided to put these all in one toolbar.  Since I am of the two I.T. guys at my job, This tool bar will come in super handy.

There are antivirus tools. Virus scanner tools and Search Engine optimization tools.

so now when building website, there is tons of media to listen to and SEo tools to ensure the website being designed is properly optimized and handily ready for Bing, Yahoo and Google to crawl about it.

Grab a copy of this toolbar and see for yourself it is very much useful for Most of your IT needs and wants.

Gaining Rank In Google

First and foremost, make sure you have a good website host that is dependable. powweb !!!
I have no idea how companies do it. I have been working like a dog to gain rank for some of the sites I work on. I do all of the optimization I do all of the meta tagging. I find that social sites are a poor source. I mean 3-5 years ago, it was the best snowball. Now, not as much as they still claim it is worth. advertising on sites seems to do nothing for me. I mean it is good while you pay for the advertisements. As soon as you stop paying, your rank plummets. The whole time you pay, it seems no one clicks the links.
SEO Tools
I work hard on alexa ranking, Compete ranking and MozRank. Alexa moves really fast when you try hard, but compete and Moz not near as fast.

Web ring. So far the best assurance to gain rank at either site, is to be in the good old fashion web ring. A web ring is a bunch of sites with similar interest who link back to each other. That of course is very hard to achieve. Most of the people who are in the same field as the site I am working don’t want to give up some potential customers by having them click my links and see better stuff for cheaper cost. Or what ever. There are a bunch of sites that have “submit link” button on their site with a code that you put on your site so people can find them better, much like a web ring. Downside to that is, if your competitor crawls your website to see what gets you so many people, they will  see that stupid link and use them also. Now you are right back where you were before you resorted to that method.

Originality. Many of the sites I work on, I can copy almost every sentence the owner wrote up and find it in Google. Word for word. Google will not accept that. Why would they link to a re-run ? So now I have to explain the importance of originality to the site owner without talking to complex and without sounding like I think they are a moron, yet still keep their attention so they allow me to fix it.

Updating and creating new content. I do it all the time, but you can only have so many pages before your website is to much. You can’t have customers trying to look through a website of greater than 10000 pages. It’s just insane. Unless you have a detailed search feature. Getting page rank is a bit more costly that it needs to be with this method.

Generating traffic. Well you can’t force people to go. you have to have people say “no it’s cool and all of the cool people do it” otherwise everyone everyone refuses to follow advertisements. Yes we are that simple of a species. Good idea to try is find a social site of some sort and make like 50 fake accounts and mention your site. but not spammy, just find topics that relate and chime in. Of course one person calls you spam and your i.p. addy is banned and your site is submitted to your dns and Google dns as spam. BLACKLISTED.

I do what I have to do. Sometimes I have to do everything. Just not so much it jeopardizes my domains. Gaining pr is no easy task, page rank shouldn’t be easy. Otherwise Google would be full by now. Alexa, mozrank, compete, search engines like, Google, bing and  yahoo would practically be useless. you would just type stuff and see where it lands you. So getting page rank is a validation of your site’s worthiness. Only thing is  to get page rank you have to get someone’s attention to prove you are everything you need to be. So how do you get the needed attention to gain page rank? well…. just keep at it. It will happen.

Things to Consider When you Hire Someone to Design Your Website

Make sure that you have a place to store your material that composes your website. Make sure you have as much space as you possibly can, like powweb, they have unlimited storage at a very good price. Very good. So far I have registered for three different companies websites at powweb and all three were under $100 for two years.

Okay we all know that web-design, Some people can do it, some people can not do it. (wait, I am not selling you web design, simply because I am sick of it) I know it’s not actually an art . but you really have to think of it like you think of art. Try and not think of it as construction. You can not just lay out blueprints and say “hey this is how it goes, this is what i want and this is exactly what you will give me”. Ever try that crap with a guy that just draws cartoons or caricatures ? You can’t go and grab someone who draws realistic drawings with perfect angles shading lighting and life like appeal, to just draw you on a rocket ship with a rodeo clown shirt on. It’s just not his thing, and well, he has his certain fields he has focused on really well. It is best you let him utilize his abilities to his best interest.

You are not a web designer. So having a lay out or a design  that you want, well you are going to have to do it yourself. If you do not lay out your website yourself, be certain that what he will make for you, will not be to your liking on the first round. It’s just a fact.

A person that knows about web design is doing everything with full optimization in mind. This person has this thing laid out with full SEO integrated in their design. The more you toss ideas at them and the more you incorporate a third party web designer in this project, the more you throw this guy out of his field of operation. You will also start to make a complete professional web-designer look like a total amateur. Let him finish his project and you will see what he gave you will have tons of great cooperative segments of the site’s design.
Have an open mind, be prepared for creative differences and be prepared for someone more knowledgeable in this field to tell you that what you want will not work. Or be prepared for someone to just build you exactly what you want and leave to to fight the internet on your own.

1. If you have a specific idea that you want done and must have, then be clear about what you want from the start. Draw it on paper, show each page individually and fill in the exact text you want or need that explains that page. He can not read your mind. He is not in your business, or you would have more competition. Be prepared for the designer to re-word your text to handshake his SEO portion of the design.

2. Give all logos you need for the design.

3. Be ready for some of your ideas to get scratched. They may be obsolete or to complex for the average user to enjoy. Or they just may screw up the Search Engine Optimization portion of your design. Some of your idea may be unrealistic.

4. Be certain that your site’s topics cover what means the most interest in your company. If you sell airplane door hinges, don’t make your company website talk about what your company started as, what it is becoming and what it is now. Make your website about airplane door hinges. It would take a pretty submissive web-designer to not tell you that you are goofing  by using the wrong content.

Don’t ask the designer of your website to copy another website. Do not go to the nearest search engine and steal pictures off of the internet and ask your web designer to design your website around them. Do not under estimate the power of proper Search Engine optimization. Do not expect SEO work to happen over night. It takes most search engines two weeks to set your site in rank order. Heck it actually takes that long just for them to get around to noticing you are there. Do not look at a crowded Navigation bar/ menu and request more in there without a bit of a remodeling.

You can have the site you want. Just have your wants and needs laid out already. save a copy for yourself and give a copy to the web guy. If you already have a web guy then by all means, let him do the work. just be ready to hire someone else for SEO and make sure your web guy is ready to comply with the SEO person. It’s hard for one web guy to go back behind another web designer and figure out what they changed and how to make it work with the full plan. Improper communication ends in crazy results.

Here is an image I found on Facebook that seemed to fit perfect.

facts about website outsourcing

facts about website outsourcing

Google Custom Home Page

Hey that’s nice they are trying to dress up the plain ol Home page. I mean it is a change but um.

What if we don’t want to see that? What if we don’t want to wait for our image to load.

Well I have some solutions, for me that is. TruXter Tech Custom Search.

I installed my toolbar and it gives me  me the choice to use the search as my home page.

The search uses Google as it’s engine so it’s like you don’t miss out on anything that you used to have.

but here is the custom search page from my toolbar. Nice and plain.

Either of the two will be fine. It’s like you get the old Google back. Works well for me.

The search is just the same as Google used  to be.

I liked Google just simply because it let me load a fast blank page that does not load massive files. So this solution is perfect for me.

But it does look like Google is following Bing now.

Get Detailed Page Rank Info

Find information about your website. Find information about other websites. See page rank, web history, and whois information about websites.
SEO Tools
http://truxtertech.com/siteworth
http://truxtertech.com/siteworth/whois
http://truxtertech.com/siteworth/whois/pagerank.php

It’s a great way to see what you have done with your website and what you need to do to increase performance of traffic and readers to your website. These tools are a great combination of tools. This is a great way to solve issues or tweak your best techniques used in your web design.

Please post back some recommendations or suggestions.

Adsense Down 4/10/10

Yeah that’s convenient. Actually they gave us plenty of warning. There was a highlighted text area in our account that stayed pretty static on every page. I do have to say this about adsense, ” They plan their outages and let you know at least a week in advance” .

Google AdSense

The AdSense account interface is temporarily unavailable due to system maintenance. AdSense is expected to be down from approximately 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time on April 10, 2010. Please note that your earnings will continue to be tracked as normal, and your ad targeting will not be affected during this downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience.