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**theglowcompany** · 28-May-2003, 07:31 PM

mmm........OK

Please excuse me - I'm not very techie & my brain is starting to hurt!

So are you suggesting that I go into the links fragment & change the page file name to

http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/links.html

+ at the beggining of the tree (the house) & change the page file name from index.html to something else (?)

Not as easy as that is it?

Sorry but where is the index file located & what should I change?

**pollygordon** · 28-May-2003, 07:33 PM

I deleted my brochure page and created an index.html file in Dreamweaver for this reason.

When I say look at your index.html - I mean whichever file you are using for your primary brochure page?

Act_BrochurePrimary ?

Have a look at that file and you should see that where you have your links section, that's where you need to add the full path to your \acatalog\links.html

Otherwise spires will continue to hit this link and go no further.

Hope this makes some sense

**pollygordon** · 28-May-2003, 07:37 PM

James,

If within Actinic you go to the Advanced Tab and then go to template manager.

Then select Change View and select the brochure tab.

click on the primary button and that should open your primary brochure page (or the equivalent of my index.html)

That file should contain the reference to \acatalog\links.htm

you need to change it to the full path

**pinbrook** · 28-May-2003, 07:39 PM

I have a solution that simspider likes.......

instead of using the link maker within the fragment box use the text area in the fragment box and embed the html thus

!!<<a href="/acatalog/index.html">link </a>>!!

or

!!<<a href="http://www.pinbrook6.co.uk/acatalog/index.html">link </a>>!!

both these links are visible

Try the simspider test on www.pinbrook6.co.uk

**pollygordon** · 28-May-2003, 07:40 PM

ps. James, if you're changing anything are you able to create a backup copy of any files you edit.

Just in case?

**theglowcompany** · 28-May-2003, 07:43 PM

Primary is as follows - I'm out of my depth on this

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE</TITLE>
<Actinic:BASEHREF VALUE="NETQUOTEVAR:BASEHREF" FORCED=NETQUOTEVAR:BASEHREFFORCED/>
<META NAME="ACTINICTITLE" CONTENT="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">




<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="actinic.css">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="actiniccore.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<BODY NETQUOTEVAR:BGIMAGE OnLoad="NETQUOTEVAR:ONLOAD" NETQUOTEVAR:BGCOLOR TEXT="NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLOR" NETQUOTEVAR:LINKCOLOR NETQUOTEVAR:VLINKCOLOR NETQUOTEVAR:ALINKCOLOR>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" background="palette2bg.gif">
<tr>
<td align="right">NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO <br/><br/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE</td>
</tr>
</table>
<center>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" height="100%">
<tr>
<td background="palette3bg.gif" valign="top" width="160"> </td>
<td valign="top" align="left">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="CUSTOMVAR:ACTSTDWIDTH" align="center">
<tr>
<td valign=MIDDLE align=LEFT >
<Actinic:NOWSERVING/>
<Actinic:CURRACCOUNT/><Actinic:BROCHURE_LOGOUT_SIMPLE/>

NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHUREBODY
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><FONT FACE=ARIAL SIZE=-2><b>Web site hosted by: <a class="actxxsmall" href="http://www.wrexham-internet.co.uk">www.wrexham-internet.co.uk</a></b></FONT></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><FONT FACE=ARIAL SIZE=-2><b>Copyright � 2002
The Glow Company. All Rights Reserved.</b></FONT></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>

**I-CC** · 28-May-2003, 07:47 PM

Sorry guys.. Ack the fact that we would all like the Actinic software to provide links that spiders will accept, but I think the main problem that james is having is that every time he updates his sites root brochure page, he needs his host to change the uploaded page because non of them connect as they should into the acatalog folder.

Or have I got this wrong James... Surely this is the main problem and getting over the spidering is a concern but not as bad as losing the front page each time you update your site...

Let us know...

**theglowcompany** · 28-May-2003, 07:54 PM

Erm..........

My issue is that the links going into my site from the front page arnt picked up by the spiders - or Sim spider, (was making my site poor on Google)

Therefore, as we didnt know how to sort this my host suggested putting the links up for me at the server side - which works - but everytime I update he has to put these in place again.

**pollygordon** · 28-May-2003, 07:56 PM

James,

I think Jo is going to be more help then I am - I'm not used to editing these templates and don't want to make matters worse for you.

I can see where your problem lies when I look at your website and view your source code, but I'm not sure which template you have to edit to put the full path to your \acatalog\links.html file.

I'm sorry if I've got this wrong but my understanding of the problem is that you want Search Engines to spider your catalogue.

Have I missed the point completely?

**I-CC** · 28-May-2003, 07:59 PM

okey dokey....

Best and easiest as pinbrook suggested then, instead of using the LINK feature just hard write it into the text field of the fragments concerned and that should do the trick...

i.e. instead of putting [LINK] to visit our page page page...

put in !!<a href="/acatalog/pagename.html">Click Here</a>>!! to visit our page page page....

And that will do the job for you...

**theglowcompany** · 28-May-2003, 08:00 PM

Yes thats right

**pollygordon** · 28-May-2003, 08:09 PM

Does Jo's suggestion help?

I'm not sure what all this fragments lark's about because I do my brochure pages in Dreamweaver.

Hope you get this fixed.

**pollygordon** · 28-May-2003, 09:45 PM

James,

Further to all our posts I had a look at Google - with the Google toolbar installed which lets you view Google's Page Rank of your pages, yours are 5 out of 10 which is good.

You have a listing with the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) which is an achievement and will boost your position within Google.

Also if you type in the Google search bar

allinurl:www.theglowcompany.co.uk

and then include the omitted results, this will show you what Google is spidering.

It will show you that your site in my opinion is being spidered no problems

Cheers

Polly

**theglowcompany** · 29-May-2003, 08:23 AM

Polly, yes we're not doing too badly - but it is spidering properly because of the links that my host puts in - we have been doing this for a few months now.

I'll have a go with Jo's suggestion - thanks Jo - dont know how this differs from yours Techno - thanks for your replies.

I have 2 questions Jo:

Will this method show on the front page - a URL? (not ideal - I need a more permanent fix - sorry to be ungrateful!)

I didnt really understand the html - what would I need to write for each link?

Thanks for everyones help again.

**theglowcompany** · 29-May-2003, 05:29 PM

Well, thanks to all & especially Jo the links are now in place as Jo & Techno (sorry!) suggested.

Jo sent detailed instructions that even I could follow!

The site can now be updated anytime!

There must be others who are having this same problem - & I think Actinic need to sort this one out -It has caused lots of problems

Thanks again to everyone.

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