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If you don't have links to your subs from the main then Google and others won't automatically "leap" over there to check it out. If you have links and your main is indexed then the crawlers will follow the links and eventually gobble the sub up too.

On the surface it looks that way but what the user who visits your subdomain sees is sub.domain.com/ It masks it so they don't know it's domain.com/sub. At least on mine it does. If you set one up and it doesn't behave that way then let us know.

Good point, HG. Anyone can sign up for a free Internetseer account and put your website in to be monitored. It may not be anything you have done at all... maybe just a nosy net-neighbor.

Thanks for choosing TotalChoice Hosting and Welcome to your new home! If you ever need anything just ask, we love to help! When you get your account you will receive instructions about changing the name services on your domain name. All that means is that you will need to go to the company you purchased your domain name from and tell them to point to our servers here instead of where they are now. This change will take 24-72 hours to propagate across the internet but after that, everyone will come to the site here instead of that one. If you have the same pages on both sites then no one will even notice the change! You can transfer the domain name hosting to us if you wish and it can be done at any time. As long as the old registrar updates your DNS records as mentioned above that change would be seemless also. Best wishes!

I have a Friend Of A Friend (FOAF) that has a martial arts school in the Cincinnatti area. The site is masterfrydefense.com and is totally not optimized. I've suggested some things I've learned to help them out but they aren't implemented yet. Anyway, I've been watching Google for them and they just popped up at #75 which isn't bad for an untouched (SEO wise) site. I went to google and searched on "+masterfrydefense.+com" and found only links to themselves. Now, finally they say, is my question. My web design site at jimscomputing.com is established and in the system, so to speak, with a 4/10 pagerank and at the bottom I've had a link to the other site for a couple of months. I went to google and looked at a cached version of my page and it has the link in it. The question is why does it not show up when I search for "+masterfrydefense.+com"? Sorry to be long winded but every time I think I have it figured out something like this happens to show I know nothing about it! <sigh>

Welcome to your new home, Deke! We are family so ask away!

It's not something TCH is doing. I used InternetSeer before moving to TCH and they are a free, opt-in, send-you-a-junkmail-ad-a-week, monitoring service that says how many times they caught your site not responding. At the bottom of the reports are some links - one may tell where you got on from but there is one that's to stop it. I told them to stop pinging me because the reports always came back as 100% uptime since I moved to TCH! Rock Sign

It's not too hard once you do it. Click on Backup, then Generate/Download a Full Backup When that screen comes up tell it the backup destination is the home directory, email address is where it will send the "I'm done" email, and the remote stuff is if you're backing up to an ftp server. When it finishes there will be a big file in your home directory that you can FTP to your home computer. The backup will be named: backup-12.26.2003_17-43-38_username for instance where the numbers are the date and time. By the way, backups are a VERY good idea for anyone reading this - you never know when you'll do something bone-headed and wipe everything out or there is a meteor that hits the data center and the best backups you can get are 1 month old. Don't get lazy like I do and let it slide.

Merry Christmas everyone! Now, let's get ready for the great year to come! It's going to be awesome!

If you have made any changes to your .htaccess file make sure you back it up before removing Front Page extensions. You can never be too safe.

Anything new on the Google front? From everything I see they have lost their ever-loving mind! My site is below 200 easily and other SE's that don't use Google for their basis have me <35 which is pretty good for what I've got at my Key West Fishing website. There's a lot of back and forth but does anyone here have any solid leads? I don't gotta be #1 to be seen but sheesh, >200 is way-bad!

Is it possible you have ram on the motherboard? Some of the older ones I've seen do but I've not seen it recently. Take out the ramsticks and see what it says.

Jack, great info here on PHP! Thumbs Up One question I have is that I have a site with a couple-hundred pages that have page1.php, page2.php, page3.php and each of those have : Include header Include Content/page1.htm (or whatever it is) Include footer The problem is my 200 pages become 400 if I do it this way. The reason I did this was that I could go to Content/whatever.htm and change just the middle part without looking at the php include stuff. My question that perhaps you or another could answer: Is there a way to have only one set of files without the messiness of php include statements in your content page? I was toying with an idea of a generic page that looks at how it's called and grabs the right "guts" and shoves that out as the page requested but I don't think I can make that work and it would probably be bad for the search engines. Do you guys have any ideas how to clean up some of the fluff on my site? Thanks!

You could copy the image from geocities to your TCH account and link to that.

My brain hurts. (Thanks for the continued input, Scott!)

Jack beat me to it and is exactly right.

Remember a couple of things though. 1. If you have index.htm or index.html you should remove them so they don't get picked up before the server gets around to looking at index.php 2. In you .htaccess file in the public_html folder you can add these lines: AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm AddType application/x-httpd-php .html which will tell the server that your .htm and .html files may contain PHP code so look for it and handle it appropriately.

Also, most or all of the software Mike mentioned has a free 30-day-ish trial so you really are better off finding the one you like.

Guys, for what it's worth I also have a report that seems to be links from other sites that certainly don't link to me. In other threads here it has been the consensus that these log entries are caused by a browser picking up a page a visitor is looking at when they type in your address and calling it a referer [sic]. I have seen links that are no way linking to me and then I've seen others that I think may be using a technique like cloaking to link maybe. It's a mystery.

Thanks for the codes, Dick! Boojum, there are also keypresses for the formatting codes. For example, if you put the cursor over the bold button the text under the buttons says "Insert Bold Text (alt + " I believe you guys with macs have apple or command buttons but whatever you use that's like the PC's ALT key may work for you too. Too bad about Microsoft's policy to leave slightly old things in the dust but I can kind of understand it too. Costs and all that.

Wow! Look at what I missed! Sorry Scott, apparently I started reading and closed my browser before I hit the original because it fell off my radar until today's comments were added. Thanks for the info, it really explains a lot of what's going on. Jack, we are all feeling what you are to varying degrees so you're not alone. Just hang in and as was already mentioned, rely on things other than Google. Like any investment, big risk = big payoff or big loss - for the smaller payoff but a sure thing diversify. If we can do that our businesses will grow regardless of the problems any one creates.

You can try some pretty tricky stuff in CSS that doesn't always work in all browsers, but the most often used "trick" is to put your entire page in a table with a fixed width. That way it is always the same width and all you get is extra blank space on the sides if they have a high resolution.

Hi Ty, Sorry you haven't gotten an answer yet. Do all of your internal links point to .html or did they get replaced with .shtml? If the internal links are shtml then you can just leave everything alone and when index.html is not found it will look for .shtml If that doesn't work you can add a line to the .htaccess to make .shtml a valid extension. Search the forums and you'll find that. If the internal links still say .html then it's a bigger issue. You can do redirects but I don't think you want 10,000 of them! I would think there is some kind of php thing you can put in as a 404 error page that will take the original url and modify it and redirect to that but I'm not sure of this. The problem with this is that the search engines will think you are trying to cloak and they'll ban you maybe. If the search engines are an issue then you may have to bite the bullet and edit them. I am by no means an expert in this area so don't start editing until you hear from someone more authoritative!

It's so big a secret that we have to kill Mike now for saying it! Oops, now I said it! Doggone it! *BANG* {Jim's lifeless body slumps to the ground.} Watch the forums - there will probably be an announcement soon.

You may want to try a site that reports your IP. whatismyip.com is one of them. The reason is that locally my computer and the DSL modem are on a local network with local IP addresses. When the signal goes out through BellSouth it gets translated to a "real world" address so the two don't match.