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Lots of Ram in your system but main HDD is using excessive amount of space, Huge Hiberfil.sys, Full SSD / C: Drive

All of these can be caused by the Windows Hibernate feature, you can easily disable this feature and remove the hiberfil.sys file that windows creates by executing the following command from a command line, be sure to use the "run as administrator" option when opening the command prompt.

powercfg -h off

Problem solved

Create a backup .bat file and copy the red text below into the file, edit as needed.

@echo off
set SPACER=echo ----------------------------------- (No useful function, This line just sets the spacer in the output, anywhere in the file that you place %SPACER%, it will palce the -----------------------)
echo Do not close, Backing up files (echo tells the batch file to just print out[echo] a line, it has no real action other than to show a line of text to the user)
%SPACER% (--------------------------)
echo Running xcopy, to backup files from c:\Backup\This\Directory to \\server\share\foldertocopyto with /s for include all subdirectories. (echo again)
%SPACER%

xcopy "C:\Backup\This\Directory" "\\server\share\foldertocopyto" /s /y (this is the code and the area you will want to change in order to customize it for each computer. The location in the first set of quotes tells the batch file where to copy from(source) and the second location in the quotes is the destination, the /s means include all subdirectories within the source location and the /y means to accept all prompts, for example overwrite, continue if it can't find a file etc.)

%SPACER%
echo Finished Backing up files (echo, no real use... just output in the cmd box)
TIMEOUT /T 1000 (this is a timeout so the user can see what was done and the results, they can click spacebar to close or wait 1000 seconds. You can also edit the time or remove this line if you want it to close immediately)

Now open windows task scheduler, create a new task, set the time/date for running a backup, then set it to run a program, browse to where you saved the backup.bat file and your done.

This guide assumes you have proper network security already setup. 

I've been designing, hosting, optimizing and marketing websites since 1997, If you are looking for Internet Marketing Professional help to create a full online presence please feel free to give me a call at 507-536-9557. 

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Online Marketing Guide

First and foremost, if you are a local business with a business location be sure to get listed on Google places and bing local. The account and service for both no charge.

• Google places account
• Bing business portal

Moving on,

Getting Started with Online Marketing

 Things to try out?

• Google Adwords is a great start for a small budget. If you are looking to test the waters you can call 507 536-9557 for a $100 Google Adwords credit and if you ever need help managing your online marketing just keep me in mind.
• Landing pages, see how different content affects your conversion rates.
• Promotions, giveaways and contests.
• Spend smarter, not more.
• Mobile marketing. Be sure to have a clean and easy to use mobile phone site before marketing to mobile phone users.

What is your competitor doing?

• Any good marketing professional can tell you how much money your competitor is spending and give you a good idea on their ROI.
• See what is working for your competitor(s) and do it better.

In my Internet marketing experience over the years, here are some things not to do,

• Spending money before you know your target market audience. You should always have a good plan/marketing strategy in place to only display ads to legitimate potential clients.
• Flying blind with an untested marketing campaign. You should always do at minimum a 1 week sample before committing your full budget to any online and in most cases offline marketing campaigns.
• Marketing with facebook, bounce rate was in excess of 90% and average time on site was always less than 10 seconds in all cases. Here is a recent example:

   compare that to the 60% organic bounce rate on the same site:

• Spending your entire budget in once place. Never spend your entire budget in one place, many people make this mistake and results will very based on your business model. As some people will find better results with search ads, text or even banners other may find better results with video or audio ads.

If you should have any questions or are looking for an Internet marketing professional give me a call at 507 536-9557

What is bounce rate?  Bounce rate means the browser who clicked the add did not take any other actions on your site. In most cases they clicked on the ad by mistake or they are fake clicks. Less is better, you should strive for 60% or less bounce rate.

What is time on site? Time on site is the amount of time a new browser spends viewing your website before they close the window or move on to another site. In most cases you should strive for a minimum 1 minute or 3 minutes average for ecommerce websites.

This method can be used to fix duplicate content errors and make it so google only indexes one version of your urls, which will prevent you from getting a negative modifiers.

In order to do this you have two options.

1. Use the proper canonical tags, for example place the following code at the top of your website:
   <link rel="canonical" href="http://(yourdomain).(tld)/Your-Special-Directory-With-Whatever-Case-You-Want" />
2. Use the following script to automate the process and only allow lower case urls to be viewed on your site, create a global.asax file and place it in your site's main directory. 
   <script language="C#" runat="server"> protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { if (Regex.IsMatch(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString(), @"[A-Z]")) { // Lowercase url String lower = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString().ToLower(); // Redefine response HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear(); HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"; HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", lower); HttpContext.Current.Response.End(); } } </script>

If you plan to use both methods be sure to use only lower case for your canonical tags or you will end up with problems.

Here are the setup instructions for mailsync/mailsync+ email service with Area51.mn

For Outlook:

Download the MAPI utility for outlook.

After downloading and installing the utility:

1. Open outlook
2. Go to Tools > Accounts/Account Settings
3. Select New
4. Check Manually configure server settings or additional server types > Next
5. Other > MailEnable Server >Next
6. Check Enable advanced configuration at the bottom
7. Enter the following:
1. Server Address: mail.a51.co
2. Username: (Your email address)
3. Password: (Yours password)
4. Your Name: (Your name as you would like people to see it)
5. Email Address: (your email address again)
6. Account Description: Give the account a name, this will appear in the folder list on the left in outllook
7. Click the Mailbox tab and select Use SSL
8. (optional)Select Enable public folders if you are using this service
9. (optional)Select Enabe server hosted file access if you are using this service
10. (optional)Select Resource connections if you want to view other users shared resources
8. Click ok and wait for outlook to sync, you will then get a notification that says The E-mail Account you have just added will not start until you choose Exit from the file menu, and then restart Microsoft Office Outlook. Click OK, Click Finish.

Outlook should not be setup, synchronizing with the servers and working properly

For iphone:

1. Email
1. Open Settings
2. tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
3. Add Account > Other > Add Mail Account
4. Enter your name, email and password then give the account description > Next
5. Select IMAP or POP
6. update the host name to mail.a51.co
7. enter your username: (generally your email address)
8. enter you password
9. enter hostname again for outgoing email: mail.a51.co
10. enter you username: (generally your email address)
11. enter your password
12. Click Next
2. Contacts
1. Open Settings
2. tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
3. Add Account > Other > Add CardDAV Account
4. Server: mail.a51.co
5. username: (generally your email address)
6. password:
7. Description
8. Next
9. (optional) advanced click on SSL
10. done
3. Calendar
1. Open Settings
2. tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
3. Add Account > Other > Add CalDAV Account
4. Server: mail.a51.co
5. Username: generally your email address
6. Password:
7. Description:
8. (optional) advanced click on SSL
9. done

Finished

For Android

1. Email
1. Open settings > Accounts & Sync > Add Account > Email
2. enter your email address and password
3. click manual setup
4. select POP3 or IMAP
5. verify that username is correct
6. update the mail server to be mail.a51.co
7. select security type SSL/TLS
8. Next
9. update the SMTP server to be mail.a51.co
10. change the security type SSL/TLS
11. verify your username
12. Next
13. update preferences
14. Next
15. Enter your contact details
16. Next/Finish
2. Contacts & Calendar
1. Open the app store and install a SyncML client like FunV10
2. Open FunV10
3. select Login
4. Username: (generally your email address)
5. Password:
6. Server URL: https://mail.a51.co:8443/syncml
7. Login

Finished