Yesterday morning while checking my website mails, I didn’t found any new mails. Later I discovered mails have stop coming to our mail server. I checked thoroughly by sending mails from office mail account and found no new mails. Then I found out that the MX record of our domain has changed.
What is MX record?
It is the ‘mail exchange’ record abbreviated as ‘MX record’. It is basically an entry in the DNS (domain name system) record which is responsible for handling emails for a domain name. It specifies how mails should be routed with their priority. For details, you can go through this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record .
How I checked the MX record?
I went to http://www.dnsstuff.com/ and checked the DNS record for our website and found the wrong one. We have set up google apps account for our website. Google has the documentation for changing the MX record here https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomainname/SetupMXInstructions
(you need to be logged in with google apps admin account for your domain).
This was the MX entry that I required to change
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
How to change the MX record?
Contact your hosting company (you can open a support ticket) support
members asking them to change the MX record as shown above. They will
do it for you. Soon I found that mails are working fine for our website. 
I learnt the procedure and just wanted to share with you.
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Let’s celebrate our 60th year of independence.
Also check how India celebrated her first independence day in the year 1947. Crowds along the Red Fort where Nehru addressed independent India for the first time and hoisted the national flag
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SEO is a vast concept. It includes everything directly or indirectly to promote your site. I used to read when I get free time. Everyday I feel that I’m getting something new to know and learn. I used to test myself with the following online tools:
You can try these out and test your seo knowledge. Some of them include real life cases where you need to provide the best possible solution of the problem. Solve and make fun.
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Recently the most hot topic of discussion in SEO world is the introduction of Google’s supplementary index. Google created this index beside its main index in order to refine its search results for better visitor satisfaction as Matt Cutts, the renowned Google engineer uttered.
For understanding the concept, one should ask the following questions:
- What are supplementary results?
- What are omitted results?
Supplemental results are those pages that google finds inferior to more relevant pages of your website under Google index. Google used to maintain a secondary index to show those pages in search results in return to most blurred search queries. The main intention behind the concept is to get rid of unimportant pages from appearing in search result for popular search queries, thus refining the quality of the search.
Omitted results are those pages which are even less relevant than the supplemental results. These pages are generally hidden in the SERP.
How should you find your supplemental pages?
Go to Google, then type site:www.yoursite.com *** -view (replace ‘yoursite’ with your domain name) in the search box and hit the search button. Start surfing the result pages and you will certainly notice results written as ‘supplemental results’ in green font. You can also check the same in google’s 43 datacenters here.
Possible reasons for Google to determine supplemental pages
- The pages with less percentage of unique content can go as supplemental page. That means Google considers that page to be of less importance with duplicate content.
- The pages like doorway pages with less or no incoming link popularity. This is because google also judge the importance of pages in terms of link popularity. Pages with high link popularity are important to google as per their logic that a good relevant page will get links automatically.
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This is Arindam aka arin2u. I love blogging. I'm a SEO guy and gathering knowledge on internet marketing & Search engine optimisation is my target bcoz I find this field very dynamic. If you have any queries feel free to contract via the form. Also providing site building, web design and SEO services.
