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Nothing enlightening in the error logs. That's my first place to check. Probably failed at a much earlier level. This time mail spit out this error message: /home/username/public_html/filename.htm: Unsupported scheme. I switched things around a bit, and now I think I'm on the right track. Got a very helpful error message. Turns out I need to switch around source and receiving file on the cron string. ...and, it worked! See how I did it: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...topic=10476&hl=

I did, that's just the pattern I used when preparing the string. It looks way different in reality. Never mind, when I copied the path from somewhere else, I appended the path to PHP... I'll try again without that!

Tried this via cron: wget -O yourscript.html http://localhost/yourscript.php Got e-mail back: /usr/local/bin/php: Permission denied What gives?

Thanks, Lisa. I was able to modify the script from wirelessdev easily, and it worked really well. So I'll be using that since I already whipped it into shape.

I was also looking at this. If that's all it takes, it's blindingly simpler than I anticipated: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_La...Q_20881512.html

Found something I might be able to modify: http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/channels/wap...mlcast_php.html But that's just the first stage. I still need to inject the results into a static HTML page.

I would like to include an RSS feed from my forum on one of my main pages. Since it's so traffic heavy, I'd like to avoid that page being PHP and processing the RSS feed each and every time the page is called. I'd like to set up a cron job to update the page every six hours or so. But how would I get the RSS feed from the forum, then parse that and inject it into a static page - all done via a php script called from cron? Or maybe I've misunderstood the question and there's a simpler way to do it?

Google doesn't look much at your meta keywords at all. They're all about the link text. Those become search words. So when I used one particular Norwegian word over my link to one sub page on my personal site, from my high traffic site, that page immediately became the number one result on Google, even without a cache. The results can be instantaneous, depending on the competition.

Some high speed carriers have been the worst. Found one comcast long after everyone else had switched to the new site. It just depends on when they update the cache on their own DNS servers, and if they somehow get hold of bad data the process can take even longer. My ISP actually refreshed the cache manually for me when I asked, but I suppose that's rather rare! Rather small, and rather good!

Yeah, Google Adsense are the rage now. Mostly text ads.

Propagation takes quite a while. I still get spam mail via my old host! If you need to see your new host, simply do the hosts file trick in your own computer. For others, you can't predict it, I'm afraid.

You'd have to have a lot of traffic first. And banner ads isn't all that hot anymore. Too many are doing it, and the returns aren't that great. You'd most likely have to sign up with some kind of service, unless you've got a niche site that would deliver targeted traffic to some business.

Well, I didn't post the URL, but of course, the site could be found using the title phrases, so good thinking.

I'm starting to wonder if maybe this thread should be removed entirely before the friendly Googlebot comes by? You won't hurt my feelings...

Different skins. I'm on my third on Anhosting. They switched mine after I complained and said I wanted to enter my own cronjobs. Before that it was raw log manager that wasn't on the first one they set me up with.

I know, I just thought I'd have you guys do it., if you haven't already. I'm not a party to this one. And thankfully few of my patrons have figured out Google bombing!

Ah! I found 63 Google results when doing this search: totalchoicehosting site:hisdomainname.com He did the same with another host, 68 results.

I was looking for totalchoicehosting resellers in Google (compare what prices they're offering to their customers). I found a few really deceptive results, that ends up at the front page of a webhost instead. I'll just paste in the titles of the deceptive pages (who have a HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently code in the headers): ----- ******** ************ ----- Spamming Google, and using the name of a competitor to do it? That's low! Ah, the guy who owns that service is only 18...

I found something about an FTP program in my signup mail. Not that I didn't already have one...

Don't know. The file works fine in my browser. I think you should think about using FTP...

yep. Right before this tag: </body> There's a table tag, and it's missing the closing bracket, like this: </table Might be more, but that's what leaps out at me. Save the code, right down including this one: </html> Then delete the page, and create a new page, then paste the code into it. You can park it in notepad or editpad in the meantime, if you're afraid you'll hit ctrl-c again without thinking, emptying the clipboard.

Uh oh! You broke the HTML! Seriously, you must have put in something prior to that portion and it somehow made the remainder of the code act funny.

Mine is also Firefox, and to me it doesn't look right. And yeah, the elements break unto the next line.

For me it starts to break apart even at that resolution. There's a box beneath there that I think should have been beside the other box.

For those who'd like to be indexed by Google. Although they'll follow links under images, Google has a thing about keywords. So if you want to have your site indexed well in Google, you should make a sig with your link under your targeted keywords. Just a little pointer... An image will not help you with keywords, though, which is why you should use a sig file if that's important to you.