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Glad you made it here despite your 14k connection. Hopefully your DSL gets turned on soon and you can join the land of broadband and happy surfing again. :)

What country are you in?

The <? in your XML looks like PHP to the PHP parser. You have two choices: 1) turn off short tags 2) change line 2 to be: echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>';

Your host may not allow you to use .htaccess or mod_rewrite.

If you know why you got banned why don't you remove it and apply for re-inclusion?

Google [b]loves[/b] incoming links. Get them from related websites with good anchor text.

Go to the Search Engine Optimization forum and read up as that is where this topics discussed. Also read the [url=http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182915]Search Engine Optimization FAQ[/url] for the basics.

They do count them as links as long as they can follow them. If the redirect is done behind a hidden script (i.e. robots.txt), they cannot follow them.

Hidden text won't get you banned unless you are using it to manipulate the SERPs. Lots of content is hidden initially then shown upon an event (like a user clicking on a link or a dynamic navigational menu). Keyword prominence and density is overrated. Don't spend too much time worrying …

You don't need to pay to submit to the search engines. It's free. Google: [url]http://www.google.com/addurl.html[/url] Yahoo: [url]http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request[/url] MSN: [url]http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=SUNO[/url]

Here's an idea: write your content for your visitors and not for search engines. If it sounds like you are using your keywords too much, then you are.

Google sees your website with the 'www' ([url]http://www.example.com[/url]) as a different page the without ([url]http://example.com)[/url]. Pages that link to the page without the 'www' are hurting your pages with the 'www' as the PR is essentially being split between the two pages. Fortunately this is easy to fix. Use a …

[QUOTE=cscgal]And then, of course, there is our own DaniWeb directory, which fetches meta tags from the sites submitted to it and uses them to enhance search results. See! Meta tags aren't dead after all![/QUOTE] This is a perfect example of why you still want to use them.

Validation does affect page ranking or PageRank. But you should do it because it means your site will render well in a variety of user agents.

Matt Cutts recently confirmed what many of us have been saying all along: .edu and .gov links are worth no more then any other link. Just watch his videos and see. [url]http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/08/03/a-google-myth-busted/[/url]

There goes the neighborhood!!!

No PHP required. Just set the form action attribute to be the Google website (check their page to see what it is). That's it.

No numbers have been published by the search engines so you have to use some common sense to figure this out. Domain names can be 63 characters long so it is safe to assume a URL may be that long. I've seen some pretty lengthy URLs, thanks to query strings, …

If they are using a normal hyperlink and not a convoluted redirect then that link can be followed by the search engines.

Great intro, Julia. Welcome to Daniweb. :)

[QUOTE=extofer]OK, now what, I thought what if I redesing some of the pages, rename them and resubmit them, I mean, make significant changes, and since like I notices, none of my pages are really indexed but 2. Also, should I resubmit the pages that are not indexed?? Any suggestions??[/QUOTE] Don't …

FYI, no backlink will ever hurt your site. If that were true your competitors could put links to your pages in link farms and other "bad neighborhoods" and hurt your rankings. The worst a link can do for your site is nothing. It simply doesn't help you in any way.

[QUOTE=extofer]how does google penalize site that have broken links (how long)? [/QUOTE] Google doesn't penalize sites for broken links. Search engines don't rank websites, they rank pages. Each page is judged by its own merit. The only effect broken links may have is the pages that are supposed to be …

[QUOTE=ocinternetadv]Today, my best practices are being challenged by the link war going on. My best practices still work eventually and over time, but the quick-fix, get cha' to the top on MSN overnight, days are gone.[/quote]That's a good thing. That means the search engines are improving their algorithms and preventing …

The PR updated happened a couple of weeks ago.

[url=http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/]Overture[/url]

[QUOTE=Sonya666]1. Backlinks?[/QUOTE] Internally: frequently. Publicly: every htree months or so. [QUOTE=Sonya666]2. PR?[/QUOTE] Internally: frequently. Publicly: every htree months or so. [QUOTE=Sonya666]3. Search results?[/QUOTE] Daily.

It doesn't make a difference either way. Meta Tags, which is what I am assuming you are talking about, have no real SEO value anymore. So, either way is fine as how they will be used by the few resources out there that use them will use them and interpret …

You most likely are linking to the wrong file. Hard to say without seeing anything. Post the code for your index page and we'll start from there.

This article is actually really poor.

[QUOTE=lconvoy]What about directories that have a high PR on the main page but a low or 0 PR on deeper pages that have the actual links on them....is it worth the link? Will the PR be transferred?[/QUOTE] The PR of the page is what matters. If the page your site …

Welcome to the forums, Mr. Shekhar :)

Over 65 websites? Sounds to me like you already know what you are doing! :)

Well, here's the secret. We just act more advanced and educated. ;)

Wow, Kumar. If we ever start a singles forum this thread will be the first one in it. :)

There is no such thing as a Google dance anymore. Google Dance used to refer to the monthly updates of Google's SERPs. They now update their SERPs daily so there is no Google dance. As for Google PR updates, they occur roughly every three months or so but have become …

CNN.com dis this recently as well. Made me feel better about switching my homepage to a 950px width design. But I did leave my inner pages at 750px as there are still too many 800x600 users out there.

We'll be happy to help you with your dev issues. Just post them in the appropriate forum with all of the pertinent information (like what language and DB you are using). We'll need that to help you better.

Howdy, stranger. ;)

I'm C++ stupid but I'm still glad you're here. :)

The first argument for the redirect should be a relative path and not a full URL

Welcome to Daniweb :)

Without cookies or sessions you've run out of options. They are really the only other options you have.

I'm just a web developer but if you ever have a question in my little corner of the world I'll be happy to help. :)

Welcome Donasiano :)

Great intro, David. I hope you hang around and post regularly.

Hi, Welinda. We'll help you when you ask. :)

Hey, Scott. Welcome to DW. :)

Welcome to Daniweb, "the Chad!" :)

Welcome Tony. I hear Ottawa is an awesome town to be in. Maybe one day I'll make the trek up there and see if it is true. :)