Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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By Erik Small -
A brief reminder that the File Transfer Planet Forums are now fixed (had a small issue for those trying to create a new registration profile).
Also, don’t forget to utilize the FTP Guides and share with friends. They include basic information on FTP, how to setup an FTP Server, or simply transfer files from your FTP client to a Server/Host.
Winter Computing - Need to Transfer Files?
By Erik Small -
This week, Ipswitch File Transfer released a new version of the popular WS_FTP program – version 12.2.
The new version is Windows 7 compatible in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. Other enhancements include:
Here the Press release that hit the wires today:
Ipswitch’s WS_FTP Professional And WS_FTP Home Support Microsoft Windows 7
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By Erik Small -
Our parent company, Ipswitch File Transfer, has been busy over the last several months developing a new, improved website!
The goal of the new design is to help all new and existing customers easily navigate the website– whether you’re looking for a secure FTP client like WS_FTP Professional, need to setup an FTP Server, learn about enterprise managed file transfer solutions, led by MOVEit or re-download your licensed software if you have a new, fancy laptop.
Check out the new Ipswitch File Transfer!
By Erik Small -
The SEOMoz blog is a great resource for webmasters. Here’s a recent article on the checkpoints to make before relaunching a website. Redesigning a site is easy, but the implications to search engine optimization and proper handling of links is paramount!
Here are the Top 10.
1) Put 301 redirects in place.
2) Add analytics code to every page
3) Robots.txt and Sitemaps
4) Update Google Adwords
5) Review all conversion endpoints
6) Full end to end test
7) Server logs
Ranking reports
9) Email footers
10) Monitor bounce rates
By Erik Small -
Scheduling a transfer using a script
If you’re setup with a file transfer client and make regular connections to an FTP server, you can easily automate file transfers. This is useful if you want to update a website nightly, or update the same document daily. There are a few ways to do this with WS_FTP. With the Scheduler Utility, you upload a file by setting a specified time interval. Utilizing the Synchronize Utility, a mirrored ( local vs. remote) set of files can be ‘synchronized’ automatically. The third feature is for an advanced user — Script Utility allows for a scheduled file transfer, but also allows for deleting files, changing directories, or checking success/failure of a command.
Detailed ‘how-to’ can be viewed in the WS_FTP Professional Tools Guide.
By Erik Small -
Yahoo has decided to wind down Geocities. This part of the Yahoo business was big back in the early days — it’s definitely an end of an era. Tech Crunch has a quick write-up on how Yahoo is pulling the plug.
Here’s in excerpt:
“GeoCities’ traffic has been falling over the past year. According to ComScore, GeoCities unique visitors in the U.S. fell 24 percent in March to 11.5 million unique visitors from 15.1 million in March of 2008. Back in October, 2006, it had 18.9 million uniques.”
“There are plenty of other Website creation and hosting services out there, including blog platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, and Typepad, as well as Website creation and hosting services such as Ning, Webs, Jimdo, Snapages, Weebly, and countless more. GeoCities never really kept up with the times, but always remained a decent pageview generator.”
