Takuvor Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 Please add me to the family URL: www.Lactose-free-cookbook.com Name of site: Lactose-Free Recipes Brief description: A cookbook of lactose-free recipes containing no milk or milk by-products and advice for people who are unable to digest lactose. The link to TCH is located at the bottom of the main page Rank Evaluation (please) Thanks a bunch! Quote
youneverknow Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 Interesting site. However I notice that wherever you use some sort of punctuation that instead of the desired punctuation it is displayed as a question mark. This is seen using the FIrefox browser....Maybe someone that uses IE can see if it is different. youneverknow Quote
youneverknow Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 Really Weird...Now it looks OK...I wonder what happened???? Iwish I had a screen shot to show you youneverknow Quote
youneverknow Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 I just noticed if you click the "How to Order" link is a dead link Quote
youneverknow Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 tch Mike ...YES that is exactly what I saw...How come?? Quote
TCH-Dick Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 No clue, only thing I can think of is maybe its an off the wall font I dont have on my PC, but it looks like a standard font. Quote
Deverill Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 (edited) The reason is that they are using ASCII 150 instead of the more traditonal ASCII 45 for the dashes. IE renders it a double-sized dash but Firefox makes it a question mark. Edited May 29, 2004 by TCH-Jim Quote
Deverill Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 Rank Eval: It is very important on Google, and for your human visitors, to have links from other sites. Google requires them if you want a shot at top 10 ranks and it will help your potential customers find you as well. While Google's not the only game in town, it is currently the biggest and links will help you in other ways. Try to get links from other lactose intolerant related sites such as nutritionists, doctors, products, sites with reference materials, etc. This will give the spiders from all search engines a way to find your site and get you listed. You can also use the signatures in forum posts and emails to draw people to your site. I would also download the Netscape and Firefox browsers, which are free, and have a look at your site in them, replacing any characters that don't show up properly. Even the apostrophe is a question mark in "You Can't Be Serious" which will drive the search engines and your visitors nuts. It's always a good idea to try your site in several browsers so you can maximize your customer potential. Your Googlebot detection program is not working because you have to make an adjustment to your .htaccess file in order for the server to process the PHP programming. Here's a link that tells how: Activating PHP You currently do not appear to be listed in any of the browsers that I checked. Once you get links from other established sites the bots and spiders will start visiting your site and you'll begin to appear on them. Just as a side note, I notice there is another cookbook called "Lactose Free Cookbook". If they can afford the lawyers they may ask you to change the name of your site, assuming they want to protect the copyright on their book's name. It could be seen as trying to confuse customers who think they are buying the other book into getting yours. Please realize, I'm not saying that's your intent at all... just that the courts are funny. If you would like to change your site name because of this then now is definitely the time to do it before you start to get links and a reputation. It's much harder to change later, but that's totally up to you. Best wishes! Quote
Takuvor Posted May 29, 2004 Author Posted May 29, 2004 Many thanks for the help from all of you. But as usual, simple things are not always as simple as they may appear. I fixed the dead link - had to do with the need for Index to be index (with lc i). Can I have some help with the business about the question marks? How do I invoke ASCII 45? Can I also have some help with the googlebot detection code? I have added the line to the .htaccess file shown in the TCH forum, but that causes the index page to not open at all: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html Maybe the simplest thing to do is to remove the googlebot code, or just forgedaboudit for the time being?? You can probably see these mistakes are those of a beginner. This is my first attempt at a web site. I would appreciate any help. Quote
Deverill Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 ASCII 45 is what you get when you hit the - key on an US-English mapped keyboard. I don't know which program you are using but it may be putting a full blown hyphen instead of the typical dash we normally see. You have the proper line to add to .htaccess. I don't know why it would prevent the index from opening though. Did you get any errors or just a blank screen? If you wanted to look through the log files you could see Googlebot but that's almost as complicated for a beginner because of the logs being in a compressed format. You could use AWStats to tell when Google came through. About half way down the page is a section "Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25)" which will list how many times Googlebot came through, the last visit date/time and how much bandwidth it used. For a first attempt you are doing fine. Hang in there and ask away - there are folks here that can answer just about anything - even how to cook without lactose now! Quote
Takuvor Posted June 15, 2004 Author Posted June 15, 2004 Feedback -- The matter of ther question marks appearing in place of some of the punctuation marks was corrected when the font being used in Notepad where I worte the code was changed from Lucida Typewriter to Courier. Lucida must have been that off-the-wall font that TCH-Mike mentioned. Also, as suggested by TCH-Jim, the site now has a new domain name Quote
Takuvor Posted June 15, 2004 Author Posted June 15, 2004 I have reworked the site considerably since your last comments and gotten rid of the coding errors. Now it even validates on W3C. Also, it has a different domain name. Can you please now add the site to your family? URL: www.Lactose-Limited.com Name of site: Lactose-Free Recipes for Lactose Intolerance Brief description: A cookbook of lactose-free recipes containing no milk or milk by-products and advice for people who are unable to digest lactose. The link to TCH is located at the bottom of the index page Thank you Quote
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