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If running a search engine optimisation campaign for your business, you need to be regularly creating content. This content is required for your web pages and for various other online locations which can help to gain exposure and traffic for your site. A large number of online businesses are regularly creating content for articles, press releases, blog updates and social media campaigns and this content plays a vital role in their development.

As this content has such an important role to play, it must be written effectively. Unfortunately, this is not the case for a considerable amount of content created by many business owners. There is a lot of low quality content currently present online and it is easy to spot content of this kind. (more…)

Choosing keywords can be a difficult business. Coming as it does at the beginning of a search engine optimisation campaign, a lot of things rest on this process. Most of the rest of the work you do with your site’s SEO will centre on the keywords you have chosen. It’s important to choose wisely.

The keyword research process can only provide so much information. A lot of the factors for a site owner’s decision over a keyword list come from business objectives, rather than the circumstances of the search industry. This means that the business aims of search engine optimisation will be the driving force behind keyword selection. Here are some of the questions you should ask your SEO company when making your keyword choices:

*What is the competition level like for the keyword? This is possibly the most important consideration when choosing keywords for your search engine optimisation campaign. You can discuss competition levels with our experts at www.seoconsult.co.uk. The tougher the competition is, the more difficult it is going to be to get into the top ten. There will inevitably be some keywords for which you cannot compete, and it’s better just to leave them be.
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Multi-lingual User Interface—the name says it all! Isn’t it? Yes, SharePoint Server 2010 has introduced the Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI), which is available with every type of site—even the SharePoint Server Central Administration site. The Multi-lingual User Interface should not be considered as a translating tool, instead it is tool that allows users to select a display language for a site and then display the Site title and description, SharePoint out-of-the-box menus and actions, Out-of-the-box columns, Custom columns (list or site), Navigation bar links, and Managed Metadata services in different languages.

In order to use the Multi-lingual User Interface, you should install the language pack on your server. After you install the necessary language packs you will have the option to enable the multilingual user interface on a per site basis using site settings. Once you enable alternate languages, users will see a language picker control in the top right of the page where they can switch the site to the language of their choice. Even SharePoint Foundation 2010 enjoys this feature. (more…)

What is Word Automation Services in SharePoint Server 2010?

Ever tried to transfer .docx files into PDF? Most of us try to perform server side conversions of Open XML files (.docx) into fixed formats (PDF and XPS) using the Word desktop application. Now this conversion can be done hassle-free with Word Automation Services.
As an element of SharePoint Server 2010, Word Automation Services allows you to perform file operations on the server that previously required automating desktop Word:
* Converting between documents formats (e.g. DOC to DOCX)
* Converting to fixed formats (e.g. PDF or XPS)
* Updating fields
* Importing “alternate format chunks”

Features of Word Automation Services

Features of Word Automation Services include the following:

o Reliability – Word Automation Service was built from the ground up to work in a server environment, which means that you no longer have to worry about issues like dialog boxes that bring the process to a halt, expecting a user to provide input; creating interactive user accounts under which to run the application to avoid running into permissions issues, etc.
o Speed – The service is optimized to perform server-side file operations, and in doing so provides performance significantly better than existing solutions.
o Scalability – The service can take advantage of the processing power available on typical server hardware (multiple processors, additional memory). For example, although a single instance of WINWORD.EXE can only utilize a single core of processing power, with Word Automation Services, you can specify the number of simultaneous conversions (and the # of processing cores) to use based on the available hardware.

What Word Automation Service doesn’t do in the SharePoint Server?

One of the most important things to understand about Word Automation service is what it doesn’t do. Word Automation Service is not intended to be a 1:1 replacement for the existing desktop object model. Instead, the server is one half of a replacement for the existing object model – the other half being the Open XML SDK.

o The SDK is designed to handle tasks that don’t require application logic, such as inserting or deleting content (paragraphs, tables, pictures), inserting data from other data sources, sanitizing content (removing content, accepting tracked changes), etc.
o The service is designed to handle those few tasks that do need application logic: reading the entire document formats that Word supports, converting to the entire output format that Word supports, recalculating dynamic fields, etc.

Word Automation Service is not featured in SharePoint Foundation 2010. Nevertheless, there is still life left in SharePoint family of products including Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 that has free SharePoint templates for business use.

This probably is one of the easiest programs to learn. The Outlook Express contains five folders namely the Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items and Drafts. Each folder corresponds to different functions that are all deemed important. However, with all the simplicity entailed by the Outlook express comes an excellent feature. This application offers configurable options particularly use for organizing and segregating email messages into folders under the inbox. It also has a feature of instructing the computer to make separate folders for incoming email messages. This Outlook Express also configures message to make a well arranged and organized emails.