ELATED: Website Marketing http://www.elated.com/ Talk about ways to increase website traffic, such as SEO and link building. Other topics include conversion rates and ecommerce. en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:54:02 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:54:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ELATED.com feeder Re: SEO for Beginners http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4706/#post22032 From: Muhammed


thanks for the nice tut

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]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:36:34 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4706#post22032 Re: Securing a site and payment options. http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356/#post21944 From: matt


Very good points Chris! I'd forgotten about PCI. It's a lot easier just to post your checkout form to the provider's payment page, and it removes your need for PCI compliance too. It also gives the shopper confidence that they're sending their card details to an actual payment provider, rather than some site they may not trust. This is actually what we do on http://store.elated.com/ .

Merry Xmas!
Matt

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]]> Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:20:54 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356#post21944 Re: Securing a site and payment options. http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356/#post21936 From: chrishirst


Bear in mind that if you are taking credit card details ON YOUR PAGES or storing CC details at all, the website AND all your systems will have to be PCI compliant ( http://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ ).

A SSL certificate does NOT secure your website or your database information. All that SSL does is to encrypt the communication between the client browser and the server during the HTTPS process so that it cannot be intercepted using "sniffers" or wireless "eavesdropping".

You have to ensure data security and maintain the systems so that customers financial details cannot be compromised in any way at all. This includes physical access to data as well. So just for the website you have to be running at the very least, a dedicated server in a datacentre that has already been approved for PCI compliance.

If you use a payment gateway where the customer is taken to a third party page on the gateway providers system you do not need PCI as it is the provider who needs to be compliant.

[Edited by chrishirst on 17-Dec-11 17:48]

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]]> Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:47:42 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356#post21936 Re: Securing a site and payment options. http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356/#post21925 From: matt


@TruthConquers: You're welcome, and thanks! I hope you also have a fantastic new year.

Best wishes,
Matt

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]]> Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:22:21 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356#post21925 Re: Securing a site and payment options. http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356/#post21912 From: TruthConquers


Thanks for the insight!

http://www.geotrust.com/ssl/extended-validation-ssl/

They are very cost effective!

Anyway thanks once again, wishing you, the elated team and families all the best for the new year.

[Edited by TruthConquers on 12-Dec-11 07:53]

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]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:43:48 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356#post21912 Re: Securing a site and payment options. http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356/#post21901 From: matt


@TruthConquers: If your secure pages are public-facing then you need an SSL/TLS certificate, otherwise users will get all sorts of browser warnings whenever they try to access your pages. I've used http://www.rapidssl.com/ before and they're pretty good.

If the charity is expecting a fairly low volume of donations then something like PayPal might be a better option - although be careful of this!

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9280634-why-paypals-bad-reputation-is-bigger-than-regretsy

Basically it's all about transaction volume. If volume is low, it doesn't make sense to spend the time and money setting up your own payment pages. If volume is high then you'll want to set up your own pages to avoid the higher transaction charges of 3rd party providers like PayPal.

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]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:11:04 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356#post21901 Securing a site and payment options. http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356/#post21885 From: TruthConquers


When securing a site are certificates like Verisign the best option to go for ?
Also if one is accepting donations for a charity, and they want to keep costs to a minimal is a 3rd party gateway a better option ?

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]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:27:51 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5356#post21885 I need to embed flash inside Javascript http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5353/#post21852 From: greenhawk


I want to make this page as intro to the website..so i need to embed my christmas tree in the intro ,
because i tried to convert flash to gif the size was very big 1 mb
but actual flash size is 75 kb

I need to display myflash.swf instead of SimpleImage.gif in the same position

full code is here: http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/mandatory-upgrade/


/* ---- main loop ---- */
run: function () {
/* ---- camera ease ---- */
cx -= Math.round((xm + cx) * .1);
cy += Math.round((ym - cy) * .1);
cz += Math.round((zm - cz) * .1);
/* ---- display loop ---- */
var i = N;
while (i--) O[i].display();
}
}
} ();


/* ==== global onload ==== */
onload = function () {
/* ---- build structure ----
i3D.init(container, path, focalLength, globalZoom, fontSize, onmouseover_border, hyperlink_border
[image, x,y,z, {options}], ...
);
options { 'zx':zoom x, 'xy': zoom y, 'url':hyperlink, 'txt':text
'repeat':[axis(1,2,3), number, increment]
}
*/
i3D.init("screen", "images/", 300, 1, 12, '#666 solid 1px', '#fff dotted 1px', [

['1.png', 600, 90, 500, { 'txt': 'asicity'}],

['26.png', -300, 0, -200, { 'repeat': [3, 3, -400]}],
['26.png', 300, 0, -200, { 'repeat': [3, 3, -400]}]
]);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="screen">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Reply With Quote

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]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:37:15 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5353#post21852 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post21764 From: chrishirst


Search Engines do not know or care whether the data is in a database or in HTML files.

They simply index the content that is found at a URL

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]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:20:10 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post21764 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post21600 From: matt


@DOC: Provided the CMS content is visible publicly as a page with a URL somewhere, and it is linked to from at least one other page that Google knows about (such as the homepage, a categories/tags page, an archive index, or other index page) then Google should eventually find the page and index it.

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]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:51:34 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post21600 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post21593 From: DOC


Ah, this seems like maybe the place to ask.

I was just curious, I can see how the content from static HTML pages can be returned very well from Google because the content is all right there in the HTML. But what about if you're using a CMS and the content is stored in a database. If someone searches for an article written by you, does Google query your database for that content?

Didn't ask that very well did I? :/

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]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:15:47 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post21593 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post21135 From: chrishirst


No because ALL pages on all sites are "static HTML" when served to a user agent regardless of how they were created.

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]]> Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:32:36 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post21135 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post21132 From: pcstokes


Thanks for the post. Does anyone know if self-hosted Wordpress blogs rank better naturally than html sites? I recently created a wp blog instead of a normal site and it ranked on page 1 in google with very little effort?

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]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:45:27 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post21132 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post20910 From: sandinfo


Great article! thanks for sharing it. We have just started our recipe website as well as our blog,!

Check it out:
http://sand-strom.com
http://tradelinksint.com

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]]> Fri, 27 May 2011 09:40:27 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post20910 Re: Commonsense in a mad world! http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208/#post20905 From: matt


@pcstokes: It is tricky to filter the spam from the "ham" with some comments. I'm starting to get more hard-line in my old age! If a comment from a new member just says "nice blog!" and contains a link to a fairly low-quality site, that usually results in an instant deletion/ban!

I often toy with the idea of opening up the comments on this site so that non-members can post too, but I feel that the member registration, while slightly inconvenient, does put off a lot of spammers and link droppers.

Cheers,
Matt

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]]> Fri, 27 May 2011 08:41:58 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208#post20905 Re: Best tool for website marketing http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204/#post20904 From: matt


@pcstokes: No problem - thanks for contributing and being a member!

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]]> Fri, 27 May 2011 08:39:06 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204#post20904 Re: Commonsense in a mad world! http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208/#post20888 From: pcstokes


Thanks for the video Chris. I agree with most of what she says, but it wasn't totally clear and what she considered spam. I like comments from visitors to my site and blog, but it better be related to my topic.

With so many other marketing avenues, I'm not sure how someone would find the time. Don't we have enough to do already?

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]]> Mon, 23 May 2011 19:50:09 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208#post20888 Re: Best tool for website marketing http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204/#post20887 From: pcstokes


Google for sure. And yes, thanks Matt, you have been very helpful for specific questions. I really appreciate this forum.

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]]> Mon, 23 May 2011 18:26:30 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204#post20887 Re: Commonsense in a mad world! http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208/#post20851 From: matt


Too right Chris! "Blog comment marketing" = complete waste of time. Nice to see it spelled out in that post!

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]]> Thu, 19 May 2011 07:33:51 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208#post20851 Commonsense in a mad world! http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208/#post20829 From: chrishirst


http://www.clicknewz.com/2721/blog-commenting-marketing-strategy/

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]]> Fri, 13 May 2011 21:51:43 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5208#post20829 Re: Everybody thinking about a business "opportunity" should watch this http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5205/#post20821 From: matt


Good advice - especially on checking references out properly...

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]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 10:29:43 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5205#post20821 Re: Best tool for website marketing http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204/#post20819 From: matt


@chrishirst: lol!

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]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 10:15:34 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204#post20819 Everybody thinking about a business "opportunity" should watch this http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5205/#post20814 From: chrishirst


http://business.ftc.gov/multimedia/videos/fraud-inside-look

Then watch it again.


and again

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]]> Wed, 11 May 2011 19:03:56 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5205#post20814 Re: Best tool for website marketing http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204/#post20812 From: chrishirst


A BRAIN, unfortunately most of the "expert marketers" seem to be devoid of such an instrument.

[Edited by chrishirst on 11-May-11 09:55]

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]]> Wed, 11 May 2011 14:54:12 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204#post20812 Best tool for website marketing http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204/#post20808 From: bhatnagarashish


Hi!

Which is the best tool for marketing the website on internet. Currently i use google adwords for my website marketing .

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]]> Tue, 10 May 2011 10:15:21 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5204#post20808 Re: Is SEO performance affected by domain hosting http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082/#post20797 From: chrishirst


don't believe all you read! Especially when it's about search engines.

Search engines can detect the footprint of any devised linking scheme.


And with 20 domains to cross link you are thinking too small, it probably won't even create a blip on Google's radar.

Google deals with hundreds of millions of websites, billions of pages, untold billions of links.

We run three servers on nine IPs and most of our clients are in the same sector of Artistes and management agencies, and they link back and forth to each others pages all the time with no thought of search engines, which of course is the best way.

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]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 21:05:40 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082#post20797 Re: Is SEO performance affected by domain hosting http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082/#post20795 From: pcstokes


Thanks for the input everybody. I'm doing an experiment with about 20 domains, all hosted on the same account. I'll keep you posted about two months down the road as I'll be keeping a close eye on my SERPS. Hopefully, it will be a positive thing.

By the way, I read somewhere that as long as you do the linking where one site links to another, but not back, it's OK. In other words, have Site 1 link to Site 2; Site 2 link to Site 3; Site 3 link to Site 4; and then Site 4 could link back to Site 1.

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]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 14:15:19 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082#post20795 Re: Is SEO performance affected by domain hosting http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082/#post20789 From: chrishirst


It CAN be a factor but NOT a major factor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU

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]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 07:48:02 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082#post20789 Re: Is SEO performance affected by domain hosting http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082/#post20788 From: sara martin


I think this is one of the major factor of getting higher rank.if you are targeting US Market and your server is kept there then you have more chances to win the game.

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]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 06:37:11 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5082#post20788 Elated Joins the Smashing Network! http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5197/#post20761 From: Elated


This is a forum topic for discussing the article "Elated Joins the Smashing Network!":

http://www.elated.com/articles/smashing-network/

We're pleased to announce that Elated has just joined Smashing Magazine's network of high-quality design and development sites.

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]]> Mon, 02 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5197#post20761 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20739 From: matt


Thanks Chris. Yes I've seen people trip up before by missing out that RewriteCond!

The pages do seem to be dropping out of the index since I repointed the domains to "blank" sites, effectively deleting all the pages. About 25% of the pages are now gone. I'll see how it goes - if they stop dropping out then I'll try the 301 approach.

There's probably no "link juice" worth transferring so I don't think I necessarily need to use the 301 approach? I just want the pages out of the index as quickly as possible!

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:47:14 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20739 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20727 From: chrishirst


Usually applying permanent redirects takes three to six months to transfer ALL pages over depending on the size of the site and how often the pages are crawled

The code below should redirect every page and folder to the same page and folder on "newdomain"

Code:
--------------------
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
--------------------


Because the sites occuply the same "space" and the way .htaccess works you need the RewriteCond in place to NOT redirect the "newdomain" as well otherwise you end up with a closed loop of redirects.

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]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:11:07 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20727 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20719 From: matt


Hi Chris,

"They manage to sort out aliased domains sometimes, but it can take between several years and never for it to happen"

Wow, really? I never knew it could take that long.

"having a permanent redirect from the aliased domains to the main name does ensure that it happens sooner rather eventually"

OK, so would you recommend setting up 301 redirects from every URL on photokits.com to the corresponding URL on elated.com?

http://photokits.com/ -> http://www.elated.com/
http://photokits.com/faq/ -> http://www.elated.com/faq/

...etc?

Would that usually be picked up in a few days/weeks?

Cheers,
Matt

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]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:42:23 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20719 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20703 From: chrishirst


They manage to sort out aliased domains sometimes, but it can take between several years and never for it to happen, having a permanent redirect from the aliased domains to the main name does ensure that it happens sooner rather eventually.

That possibly does account for the sudden drop since the "Panda" update.

The general drop off in people actually visiting forums, may be due in some part to the gradual but ever increasing use of RSS feed readers and websites that republish RSS feeds.
After all you only need to read some things once, and unless you are inclined to comment or answer the post you need never to visit the originating page.

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]]> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:29:08 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20703 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20701 From: matt


@chrishirst: Direct traffic is down slightly, but Google organic is down over 3x more than direct is.

I just discovered that 2 of our unused domains were pointing to the elated.com site, so every page on elated.com was also being indexed by google at the 2 other domains. Oops!

eg: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aphotokits.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

That can't have helped! Although I believe Google is reasonably good at distinguishing between this type of thing and genuinely scraped content. Fixed now anyway...

So what's your theory as to why there might be a general drop-off with all traffic types, and why the better sites are quiet at the moment?

Cheers,
Matt

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]]> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:46:15 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20701 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20687 From: chrishirst


How about direct traffic is that down by a similar amount?

A current discussion in the Tek-Tips private forum is about their traffic drop off generally including SE referrals.

From the forums I mod/admin at and ones I just read at there has been a reduction in visitors and signups, it seems like the only busy ones at the moment are where they tolerate spam and allow junk posters with signatures.

The better run places are all "quiet"

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]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:44:06 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20687 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20674 From: matt


@chrishirst: There's certainly a lot of that about!

It looks like we've been hit by the recent April 11 update and have lost quite a lot of Google search traffic. Still trying to figure out exactly why, since our content is all original and (I like to think!) fairly good quality. Hopefully things will pick up a bit down the line.

If you can spot anything obvious that we might be doing on elated.com to offend Google then I'd love to know!

Cheers,
Matt

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]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:29:56 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20674 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20667 From: chrishirst


Nope I just keep reading about how Google is being "cruel" to people trying to scrape (pun entirely intentional) a meager existence from adsense pennies, "earned" from somebody else's work.

But as I don't check " rankings" for anything I'll probably never see it happen.

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]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:33:19 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20667 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20657 From: matt


Chris, that's a great find! Thanks for posting. Some very sane advice in there.

Have you noticed any (non-spammy) websites that have been badly hit by the Google Panda update? I'm reading about a lot of sites that have ended up being "collateral damage" as a result of the update.

Matt

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]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:09:39 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20657 Re: HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20648 From: cat


Great post Chris,

Although I was familiar with most of Jill's list. H1, H2's etc not counting for much is new to me.

This could be a great post to send clients who think they know about SEO to.

Cat

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]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:11:16 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20648 HR Advisor http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183/#post20647 From: chrishirst


If you only read one thing this week make it this ->

http://www.highrankings.com/useless-seo-tactics-303

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]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:34:18 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5183#post20647 Re: XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20557 From: matt


Thanks Chris - nuked!

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]]> Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:50:07 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20557 Re: XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20555 From: chrishirst


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Link drop^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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]]> Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:08:41 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20555 Re: XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20456 From: chrishirst


Having a XML sitemap does NOT mean your pages will be crawled and indexed. It simply gives SE bots a way to find pages that may be "hidden" by short-coming in your site navigation.

A XML sitemap is a LAST RESORT method of getting pages crawled, and if the pages have no or very few links pointing to them they may not be crawled anyway.

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]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:55:27 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20456 Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736/#post20331 From: helplinelaw


That is good information of Search Engine Optimization Strategies and more focus of targeted keywords, country, city, users, business presence on social networking web site.

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]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:30:53 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/4736#post20331 Re: XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20233 From: mauco


pcstokes, you could try: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Hope that helps.

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]]> Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:08:07 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20233 Re: XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20231 From: pcstokes


Mauco, I appreciate the reply. But I would love a suggestion or two about who you use, hopefully free or cheap, as I'm not real happy with sitemaps. But, then again, I'm not really sure what to expect. I update my sites at least once a week but one program I use shows that google is not indexing that often, more like every 30 days.

Any advice? Thanks.

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]]> Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:03:34 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20231 Re: XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20136 From: mauco


Hi pcstokes,

There are different formats of sitemaps but I believe xml is the most popular.

There are loads of free sitemap generators that are good and without knowing the particular one you used, it'll be hard to refer you to a better one.

No you don't need to re-submit to Google often. If you specifically stipulated the frequency which you want your site to be crawled in your sitemap, then the search engines would basically follow that.

However, if the search engines crawl your site and realize that you're not updating your site as often as you stipulated then, they're less likely to follow the frequency stated in your sitemap and crawl it based on the search engines on criteria.

You'll need to be specific and decide whether you want your site to be indexed and referenced because search engines will treat www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com as 2 seperate/different sites.

Hope that helps?... have a successful 2011!

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]]> Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:17:14 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20136 XML Sitemaps: Are they all the same http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107/#post20133 From: pcstokes


Hi All,

I used a free online XML sitemap creator -- which seems to work -- and submitted it to Google webmaster tools.

The site has been indexed, but only 3 pages of 30+ pages.

Are all sitemaps created equal?

Can anybody refer me to a How-to guide or free sitemap creator that may be better?

Do you need to re-submit the sitemap to google often?

How important is it to submit one sitemap with the www. and the other without?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks ... and have a great 2011!

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]]> Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:48:28 GMT http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5107#post20133 Re: Using Popup Windows: Yes or No http://www.elated.com/forums/topic/5099/#post20112 From: cat


Hi Paul,

Personally I would tend to avoid popups, apart from maybe in an admin system designed for a specialist audience, although even here divs designed to work as modal dialogs are probably a better option.

If the client insists on popups, I'd always use new windows opened using the "target" attribute of the <a> tag (as these don't tend to be blocked) however this markup isn't allowed if you're using XHTML strict.

Hope that helps!

Cat

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