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    help to make some home page changes

    After 2 months of no search engine recognition (a small start in the MSN engine) I have been posting on a few SEO forums. Generally they tell me there's a few things wrong with my site, which is naturally disappointing, but i need to start putting them right.
    So first things first can anyone advice how i impliment the following change?

    Your home page contains Code:
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Cakes Cookies and craft shop redirect</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta name = "robots" content = "noindex,follow">
    <script language="JavaScript">
    window.location="http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/acatalog/"
    </script>
    </head>

    <body>
    </body>
    </html>


    The noindex means that you prohibit indexing of the page by search engines. The "follow" means that you invite search engines to follow the links in the page, but most search engines do not process JavaScript links and your window.location="..." is a JavaScript link. There is no other link in the page.

    It would be much better to put the content of the /acatalog/ page in the home page. Obviously you would need to remove the "noindex".



    Thank you in advance
    Cakes Cookies and Crafts Shop
    Cookie Cutters
    Cake Decorating Supplies
    Chocolate Making Equipment
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    #2
    You will find tons of references in the forum about what people suggest regarding search engines, but as a start you need links for the robot to follow. You could at least hard code a link to the Actinic sitemap page on your home page as well as also changing 'noindex' to 'index'.

    Duncan R

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      #3
      Thank you for your reply.
      I should maybe have been more specific.
      Where is this information so that i can change it?
      Do i literally just change the word from noindex to index and save and exit?
      Cakes Cookies and Crafts Shop
      Cookie Cutters
      Cake Decorating Supplies
      Chocolate Making Equipment

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        #4
        Just looking at your page:
        http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/acatalog/
        I don't see what you typed in your post.
        Which page are you referring to?

        Duncan R

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          #5
          www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk.
          Cakes Cookies and Crafts Shop
          Cookie Cutters
          Cake Decorating Supplies
          Chocolate Making Equipment

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            #6
            ok - i see now. You have a redirection on another page first. Presumably you have a page called index.html or something similar that is directing to your catalog pages.

            You will need to manually change that page.
            However you can't just add the sitemap like I said.

            Try and search in the forum for 'redirection' to find the best way to send traffic to your catalog pages. Sorry my knowledge is limited on that subject.

            Duncan R

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              #7
              Assuming thatyour host can not do a server redirect for you, here is better code for your redirect.

              Use this code to replace your exsisting <head> </head>

              The result of this will auto redirect visitors from index.html to acatalog/index.html after 2 seconds.

              You shouldn't have the time delay less than 2 seconds. I've removed the index/noindex, follow/nofollow as you don't need them. A SE by default will index and follow



              <head>
              <title>Cakes Cookies and craft shop</title>
              <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
              <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/acatalog/index.html">
              </head>

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                #8
                Where do i find this file to change it. (I'm not thick, just new and clueless - there is a difference!)
                Thank you so much for your help.
                Anythings helpful these days.
                When will it all stop being such gobbledygook
                Cakes Cookies and Crafts Shop
                Cookie Cutters
                Cake Decorating Supplies
                Chocolate Making Equipment

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                  #9
                  Hi
                  My hosts have instigated the redirect.
                  What changes should i make to the code now?
                  and where do i find this code?

                  Thanks in advance
                  Cakes Cookies and Crafts Shop
                  Cookie Cutters
                  Cake Decorating Supplies
                  Chocolate Making Equipment

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                    #10
                    if your host has done a re-direct there is nothing for you to do, as the code we were talking about has now been superceded by the server re-direct.

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