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    Ftp Issues

    in CPanel and Site Maintenance

    Posted

    I am not on server 26 but I too use WS_FTP (Pro) and have it set on passive mode. I use several other ftp programs (different machines) and WS_FTP is my favorite (by far).

     

    P.S. Rick's observations/suggestions are usually 'right on' (i.e. under the advanced tab, check Passive Mode).

     

    Good luck.

    Pdf Files And Search Engines

    in Web Site Promotion

    Posted

    I know there are several (or rather many) ways to create pdf files. After you create the pdf, look to see what text you can select and highlight within the file. If it highlights, then it can be read by a spider.

     

    As you also mentioned, maximize the use of all your Meta tags.

    Advanced Question

    in Web Site Promotion

    Posted

    Sorry, I should have added one more thought...

     

    just because a page gets spidered does not mean it will be indexed. I can think of many examples of this, including pages with sessionIDs. For instance, a page with too many html errors will be spidered (and respidered) but it will not be included in an index until it gets 'cleaned-up'.

     

    Another example, penalty sites are spidered and respidered but will still be excluded from an index if the cause of the penalty is not rectified.

     

    I am not posting this to scare anyone, just would like to clarify assumptions.

    Advanced Question

    in Web Site Promotion

    Posted

    Also, by Google PR bar indicates that TCH forums has a PR of 4 on most pages. So doesn't that mean that these pages are indexed?
    No, they are not 'indexed' that is just PR being passed from pages that are. There are two ways to confirm that: the first would be to see that there are no backlinks associated with a particular page; the second is to search for a very particular (and extended phrase) which would be unique to one of these pages.

     

     

    Now, if I'm left out of next month's dance, then I'll have an idea why.

    Not necessarily, sometimes it can take two dances to be included. In addition, I truly believe things will change shortly so that a recognizable dance will not exist. I believe that we are approaching a time when PR will be continuously adjusted upon 'all' crawls. We shall see.

     

    I noticed you did not comment on my recruitment... :)

     

    I do want you to alter this forum. I need to talk with Bill and see where we are going (which forum) and when we 'settle' on one, I would like you to alter the URLs (mod_rewrite). ;)

    Top Three Elements Of Page Design

    in HTML and CSS

    Posted

    Mitch: Nice article indeed!

     

    However... as my title might suggest I have to make comment. :)

     

    Critical and most often neglected (as in the case of this article) is search engine optimization considerations.

     

    I mean think about it.

     

    You could have a beautiful, easy navigational, content filled site but if no one can find it... what good is it?

     

    Maybe we need four elements? :)

    Advanced Question

    in Web Site Promotion

    Posted

    Whoa! ... another thread that slipped through the cracks. Sorry.

     

    Bottom line:

     

    Google has worked very hard (and somewhat succesful) at indexing dynamic sites, but Google doesn't like SessionID's.

     

    Lots of folks use bulletin boards that append session id's to the url.
    Correct, and those boards are not indexed.

     

    Also, I use sessions instead of cookies, but I'm not sure whether googlebot sees session id's appended to the urls.

    Yes, I believe they would. You can alwasy look... try

     

    http://www.delorie.com/web/ses.cgi

     

    or

     

    http://www.wannabrowser.com/

     

    And a lot of people like Same Spade

     

    Maybe I'm worrying about something inconsequential.

    I don not think so. Example, our board here is not indexed (and it should be!). When HG decides definitely which way we are going (InvisionBoard vs. phpBB) we (insert 'Jack' here; yes that is you :) ) here will be in charge of mod_rewrites.

     

    You may enjoy this thread for a preliminary. :)

    Please Add My Site

    in Add Me to the Family

    Posted

    Oh my.... you should have been added a while ago. Sorry.

     

    You are added now.

     

    SEO thoughts:

     

    You are not in the Google index :)

     

    Reduce the number of keywords... you are diluting the importance of the most significant ones.

     

    Include all your keywords in your description and you 'main' ones in your title tag.

     

    Include Alt tags on all your images.

     

    Change:

     

    ><body background=images/grybkgrnd.jpg>

    to

    ><body background="images/grybkgrnd.jpg">

     

    This following is more then 2-cent advice:

     

    How new is this site... if it is not indexed yet anywhere (I did not look) you may want to change your page naming strategy.

     

    From this:

     

    >http://www.hoosiercabinet.com/coffee_grinders_or_mills.htm

    to

    >http://www.hoosiercabinet.com/coffee-grinders-mills.htm

     

    I took out the 'or' never use "spacer" words in URLs and try to keep them to a minimum number of characters. However, what I am really getting at is the "_" vs. the "-". Even if those pages are indexed, you could make all the changes and then do a bunch of 301 redirects.

     

    REPEAT: this is valuable advice! :)

     

    Good luck and again sorry for the delay.

    Directory Indexing And Safe Chmod Settings

    in Security Discussions

    Posted

    From the help site:

     

    Hiding a directory

     

    Often we are asked "how can I hide the list list of files in a directory from people who try to access that directory?

     

     

    Steps to protect a directory

     

    1. Start up cPanel, go to the Access Menu, and click on Download/Upload Backup File

    2. Click on 'Index Manager' option

    3. Select which directory you wish to protect

    4. Select 'No Indexes' from the list

     

    Hiding the directory is not the same as hiding a file (i.e. the correct file will load when requested).

     

    Tracy gets an A! :)

    Davegorrie.com

    in Add Me to the Family

    Posted

    Dave you have been added!

     

    Would love to see a little rewording on your TCH link... from Hosted by.... to web hosting by... :)

     

    SEO thoughs:

     

    Your site is not in the Google Index :(

     

    Why do you have a "/" in all your meta tags?

    ... content="Multimedia, Etc." />

     

    Actually you have a number of these /> combinations throughout your document, might be a PostNuke thing??? Do not like them, could give a lot of "unknown attribute" errors.

     

    ithemes/TrueBlue/images/nav/spacer.gif

    (404: Not Found)

     

     

    Remove all you blank lines (or at least most).

     

    Be sure to include Alt tags on all images. In addition, I would include WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes on all IMG tags.

     

    You have several open tags (look at your <align="center"> tags).

     

    Cleaner html will make a difference, if a spider comes along and reads a page it will only tolerate a minimal amount of errors.

     

    How about this instead:

     

    ><title>DaveGorrie.com :: Multimedia, Etc. (Dave Gorrie)</title>
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Dave Gorrie,David Gorrie, Multimedia Design,Website Design,Graphic Design, print design, " >
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="Multimedia by Dave Gorrie including website, graphic, print and mutimedia design.">

     

    These changes will help (I promise). :)

    Please Add My Site!

    in Add Me to the Family

    Posted

    ThinkDigitally:

     

    You have been added to the family page. :)

     

    SEO thoughs:

     

    You are not in the Google index :(

     

    The best way to be indexed is through an external link (and now you have one :) )

     

    Obviously, the more the merrier (i.e. get more external pages pointing to your home page).

     

     

    ><meta name="title" content="Think Digitally - Expand Your Horizons">
<meta name="description" content="Affordable Professional Web Design in West Virginia">
<meta name="keyword" content="web design, website design, affordable, graphic design, logo design, jason godden, homepage design, west virginia, wv design, wv">

    Try this:

     

    ><meta name="title" content="Think Digitally (of West Virginia) - Expand Your Horizons">
<meta name="description" content="Web Design in West Virginia, affordable and professional.">
<meta name="keyword" content="web design,west virginia,website design, graphic design,logo design,wv,thinkdigitally">

     

    Remember, you should 'use' all your keywords in your body text (i.e. I took out a lot of words that you do not use in your text [e.g. your name]).

     

    Include Alt tags for all your images.

     

    Try this at the bottom of your table:

     

    ><tr> 
   <td> </td>
   <td width="565" height="20"> 
   <div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="index.html"><font color="#000000">
   <b>Home</b></font></a><b> | <a href="services.html"><font color="#000000">Services</font></a> | <a href="packages.html">
   <font color="#000000">Packages</font></a> | <a href="faq.html"><font color="#000000">FAQ</font></a> | <a href="contact.html">
   <font color="#000000">Contact</font></a></b><br></font><font color="#0066FF" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
   <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com" target="_blank">Web Hosting by TotalChoice Hosting</a></font></div>
   </td>
   </tr></table>

     

     

    Instead of this:

     

    </table>

    <div align="left"><strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="index.html"><font color="#000000">

                      

                      

                      

                      

       Home</font></a>  | <a href="services.html"><font color="#000000">Services</font></a> |

    <a href="packages.html"><font color="#000000">Packages</font></a>

      | <a href="faq.html"><font color="#000000">FAQ</font></a> | <a href="contact.html"><font color="#000000">Contact</font></a>

    </font></strong><br> <strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> 

                  

                       

                       

                       

                 </font></a></font></strong>

    <font color="#0066CC" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com" target="_blank">

    <font color="#0066FF">Web  Hosting by TotalChoice Hosting</font></a></font><br>

    </div>

     

    Good luck.

    Meta Name="robots"

    in Web Site Promotion

    Posted

    I confirm that it looks good :blink:

     

    Googlebot checks a robots.txt first when entering a site and then will check for the robot meta tag on each page.... why?

     

    The big reason in to conserve resources. Right now, the big issue with Google is resources (time). Therefore, if they do not need to spider one page (directory, or site) the better.

     

    Thus, what they are looking for are disallow and noindex. Meaning both of these are used to avoid spidering, they will ignore 'cute' things like spider after 10 days, etc.

    My Entry

    in Xbox / Treo90 Giveaway

    Posted

    When you add the url you will get this on the page:

     

    >[IMG=http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/web-hosting-images/center.jpg]

     

    and then the image will appear when you preview (or post).

     

     

    You are right though... if you have hotlink protection, it will block it.

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