Search Engine Optimisation for Every page

[Jan]

I have just tried the spider sim and there were lots of links from the frontpage but most of them were in the form

http://acatalog/Contact.html

which is not valid. Is this just a display problem in the simulation or is this what the spiders would actually try to use?

I have changed all of the ones under my control to have a full path just in case (which has had the rather pleasant side effect of removing a dialog box that always appeared telling me that some of my paths were not in acatalog).

Regards

[I-CC]

that is the spiders way of showing relative URLs if not mistaken.

[theglowcompany]

Hi Sorry for the break - been away for a few days.

Thanks for the replies - Techno will answer once I have had time to fully digest this. By removing the /acatalog wont this affect my results in the search engines? - once this is removed the address wont exist & visitors to the site wont find the pages - I dont know - ??

[I-CC]

The best way to overcome this particular aspect of it would be to add a custom error page within the empty /acatalog folder of say index.html that says something along the lines of:

We have massively changed the offerings within our site. You will shortly be directed to the index of our site or you can click here....

And establish a meta refresh to forward all visits to this page onto the roots index.html page.

Added within this, create a .htaccess file within the /acatalog folder that contains:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/index.html

then, all visits to your original pages within the /acatalog folder will show the error document explaning the change in site and redirect them to the correct and new index page of the site outside of the /acatalog folder.

Its an option....

[theglowcompany]

I appreciate the info - but its way beyond me I'm afraid & sounds a little messy.

I cant believe that this is an issue with Actinic - everything else works fine - so why cant these links be picked up

If you do the spider now you will see the links are now there as my host has put them in place.

Actinic cant you help????

[I-CC]

It is quite straight forward to do the above, but you are right when you say that it is not all really down to the Actinic software why the links are not being referenced by search engines, it is how search engines work and so long as you do not use the product link within the fragments for connections to products then it works fine.

I do not really understand why your host has to do the changes for you thou.

Surely by using the Brochure facility and having the top page as the root as the site, you can create the lists of links you have shown now by using fragments galore, and linking by connecting then as pagenames.....

Really strange that your host has to conduct changes to your pages for you......

[theglowcompany]

You mention "and so long as you do not use the product link within the fragments for connections to products then it works fine"

if I'm not mistaken this is what isnt working on my front page. I have used the fragments to create the links & have it linking to a URL - not a product section.

Oh I'm really confused now!

[I-CC]

is it a relative url or full url as full urls should work fine.....

[theglowcompany]

Full.

e.g. under the 'click here' under 'Glow to Glowsticks & Lightsticks'

The fragment has the URL option with http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acat...ow_sticks.html
in the box

[I-CC]

Well that will work fine..... But I thought you said that your host had to upload the page for you before it would work? What is that part for, i.e. what is different from what you upload to that which your host then changes....

Strange that your host has to make changes to the page for it to work , or have I got this wrong..

[theglowcompany]

Hi, no this is the problem it doesnt work.

When I upload the site or refresh it these links do not show.

My web host does something manually everytime I upload (causing lots of problems)

The links are there now as he has put them in place

[I-CC]

Email us a copy of your Act_Brochure template, or what ever it has possibly been named as being used for your root brochure page...

Also could you send us the fragment templates that are used to produce the information and links and we will see what we can see from those for you, not promising anything thou...

send it to support@techno-web.co.uk...

BTW: that is not an open invitation to all ok,

[pollygordon]

James,

I have had a look at the sim-spider. I think you need to have a look at your index.html file.

The very first link the spider hits is http:\\acatalog\links.html. You need to edit your index.html and change it so it has the full path

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

At the moment the spider is trying to find a page called http:\\acatalog\links.html which does not exist and is receiving a 500 timeout error.

The nologin command is also embedded in your index.html so you can change that too.

Use notepad to open your index.html file to look at it.

Hope this helps,

Pauline

[pollygordon]

my \\\ should be //// by the way, oops!

[pinbrook]

the very same discussion is taking place here

I have run several tests to see what happens within brochure index file