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Another very useful free tool is at www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ which gives you a keyword rank and a backlink rank with daily/weekly/monthly changes. By the way - PageRank is not a good thing to focus on.

Hey Bruce! I got a higher geek score than you did and I use DreamWeaver MX2004! What makes text editors geeky? Anyone can use a text editor but how many can make a site in a WYSIWYG that's actually efficient!?!

If I'm not mistaken they are activated, it's just a little slower than normal to be updated.

Bob, you sure went about it wrong if that's your intent. TCH is Bill's baby. He has poured so much into it trying to make it the best host in the world and a nice place for people to get what they need, and we don't even know the half of it, so of course an insult against it is taken as one against him. You say you didn't want to insult Bill, but then you also said: All of which are inflamatory comments. As I said, if you merely wanted to make an observation you surely went about it the most argumentative manner possible... even going to the point of twice in one reply calling Bill's response a "Possible explanation", implying that it's possibly not true and may only be one possible explanation. The truth is that TCH is a business. Bill allows us to have these forums but it is still a business. You say you are a moderator and don't censor... I'd bet it's not a public forum that directly reflects on your business. Our family forums are just that for TCH. Besides, getting people stirred up in a public forum will not change anything... this is not a government you can overthrow and replace the dictator but it's a business and Bill's here to stay. You could get more changes, if reasonable, by asking him and giving him logical reasons than saying "Yeah, you're censoring any negative comments." would ever do.

Thomas, that's why we try to keep firey comments to a minimum and close the threads that are going downhill fast. We don't want anyone to feel bad about the forums and especially not to be afraid to say something for fear of retalliation. There is a difference between talking about "other site promotion" and actually "promoting sites". If someone would have come in and asked about linkfarms someone would have said "bad idea" and nothing would be done beyond that. It would not be a good place for out 3654 registered forum members to post their sites though. In that forum I'd expect to discuss keyword spamming but I'd hate to see a post with "Nigritude Ultramarine" plastered a million times in it. It's like the difference between going to Home Depot Hardware Store and asking them for advice on how to install windows in your house (they give out free advice like this) and putting your house on a huge truck and driving it to the store and telling them to do it. I'm sorry you feel uncomfortable posting but there is no big conspiracy and no one at TCH is out to get any of their customers!

Sorry I've been busy lately. I am using FireFox. IE looks the same but the hover-text does not include the part about the hover page. It just looks like it should be clicked.

I found it in about 10 seconds... 7 of those were loading speed In my browser it shows a wireframe globe in a black square and when I hover it says it's the secret page. Not too much of a challenge, eh?

Yes, but 1. Some forums have sigs not spidering. I know of at least one forum like that which is the same program TCH uses. 2. The PR of this page, for example, is ZERO... not much help there. Now, the TCH Family Pages is a different story

Yeah, I have an email filter for the word "logo" it got so bad. I hope no one asks me in email how to logout or something!

Links from another page that's already in the search engines is usually the cheapest and fast. If you want the absolute fastest you should look at buying an Adwords campaign or similar pay per click ad.

Just another echo here. If you were asked to create this work while on the salary of the company and used their computers to do it then without a signed contract to the contrary it belongs to them. That's why moonlighters have to be careful what they do at their day job.

Someone stop the insanity! What's next, Microsoft monitors at the grocery store making sure your grocery list doesn't infringe on their patents? And heaven forbid if it's on a palm!

You scared me - I thought for a second the Day After Tomorrow was real! Sheesh, imagine Venus sucking most of our atmosphere out to space as it blows past - gravitational pull messing up everything from tides to volcanos. Eeeesh! At least it wouldn't hurt for long! It's so cool that today we can watch Quicktime movies of the event from anywhere on the planet and not even go blind doing it! www.vt-2004.org/central/cd-videos/

Annie, I can sympathise with your situation - you want to do a great service to the actors and fans and "everyone's doing it" and it may even not bring a lawsuit. Unfortunately, it's not about whether TCH gets sued - it's about whether they can be sued and whether it is legal or not. Two years ago I would have thought that a couple dozen music files on a public FTP site wouldn't cause any trouble but it would have been illegal - period with no room for grey - and we see today that the most unlikely folks are getting sued by RIAA. I truly hope you can find clarification in your favor on this as it would be a good thing for the site, the actors and the fans and I wish you all the best in your search for that release.

How important is PR or PageRank to your site? I wanted to take a minute and share something I found out and is kind of interesting. First, PageRank is Google's measure of how important your site is based on the number and types of links to your page in question. The other search engines may use a similar thing but I've not heard of it. PR only applies to Google's measuring method. Second, remember that Google's not the only game in town. Recently, Google was pretty much not going to rank you well unless you had a lot of links to your page. "A lot" varied based on the competition for your search phrase, but in a competitive arena you would not get a high placement unless you had a high PR. I read an article that brings up an interesting point. It seems Google may be devaluating the PR portion of their ranking formula. There are tons of things they look at to decide where to rank your site, but PR was King and it may be losing some of its value. It is too early to be sure! but here's an interesting thing they brought out. For a search on "Grill equipment" the top returned Google pages had the following PR values according to the toolbar and in this order: PR 1,0,3,0,3,0,0,1,4,5 There were other examples as well. Now, this may be a fluke or they may be in the middle of recalculating things and everything goes upside down for awhile when they do, but this just goes to strengthen what many SEO's have been saying forever - don't obsess on PR - make good pages for good customers and have good results instead of trying to manipulate the search engines and be on top today and gone tomorrow. I hope this helps someone sleep well knowing that PR isn't worth losing sleep over... unless someone's paying you a lot to do that!

When you get your form all set up you can hilight it and in the properties box for the form it will have Action and Method. Method is POST, Action is the name of a script you must have to handle the information. One script a lot of us use that was created by a long-time TCH customer is at www.surefirewebdesign.com/scripts/ and it's called the Ultimate Form Mail Script. Jack has done a great job keeping it very easy to set up and with a little patience and some reading you'll get the hang of it. If you have any questions after reading the info on Jack's site just come back here and ask!

I didn't mean that to be a correction of you VI. Poor choice of wording on my part. Sorry.

Yes, the java buttons that are so cool and so awesome that they will take over the world except that: They are java. They are very limited in where they can go. They are hard to make behave. They look like everyone else's buttons.

Indeed, what's the point in having a holiday if you have to go to work.

Now that's scary stuff, Dick.

Funny, I thought Disney World was in Orlando.

I started with text editors wayyy back. That was good but it's so much nicer to see on the screen what things look like as you're adding them. I used Frontpage and left it for the same reasons of added crap. I hear it is very much better now than before about that but I don't like the way they do the navbar things. I love Dreamweaver MX04 because it gives me lots of nice tools such as on-screen CSS rendering and templates, as well as the power I want to do what I want when I want. The bottom line is that everyone has a favorite, some love WYSIWYG and others hate it, everyone's situation is different because of what they need and any tool can be good for a certain use. The best thing to do is get the free trials, one at a time, use them for the whole period and see what you like the best.

A link shows that it's a real site visited by real people and it's important enough that another site links to it. A submitted site could be complete trash so the engines prefer finding sites via links. Also, submission guarantees nothing. Maybe they'll send a spider there when it gets time but so would a link from other sites. Links from other sites builds your site's reputation for the search engine and helps others have more ways to find you. Nothing you put on a "Submit your site" will help the engines with relevance or keywords or any of that. A search engine will only go by what it sees on your pages so if you submit a site about pumpkins and say that it's the foremost authority on political rhetoric the search engines will list it as a pumpkin page. Directories are different than search engines which send out spiders to find stuff. A directory should be submitted to, especially a smaller one that has no budget for spider programming.

Which specifically? That link: is unpredictable and not trustworthy? It's a fact. That Google doesn't render Javascript when the spider crawls? It's a fact. That Google returns results on white-on-white text? It's a fact. Google would have no reason to return a page based on the name of a file you are linking to. If it's not content then why would a searcher want to look at it and thus why would Google show it to them? My question was with your statement that basically white words on a white background won't get found by Google which is what I thought you meant by Regarding that you can see it on this site valfiorentina.it which uses #FFFFFF text on a #FFFFFF background and if you use the search term Italien, Tirol, site:valfiorentina.it You will find the page showing that white-on-white is indeed indexed by Google as long as it is where text should be displayed - ie a usable part of the page instead of links and scripts. I guess I just don't get what you think I am guessing on.

I have to keep up with the important things in my friend's lives. Even if they are very far away.