Make Website More Visible To Search Engines

A friend of mine has provided the following feedback on my homepage;
'The Blog page I visited was presented as graphical images, rather than as text. That means you have exact control over the appearance, but has several disadvantages. Among them are that people can't copy & paste what you've written, and search engines may not find it. (I say may not, because there seems to be some kind of text-based version that loads momentarily and then gets overwritten by the graphical image. Very strange! Search engines may be able to find the text-based version.)
I have tried to find my website on Google without success. How do I make it more visible to search engines? Is there some preference in iWeb that would help?

I wouldn't worry too much about the whole text-to-graphic conversion issue. iWeb does this for your benefit so that what is rendered is exactly what you expected. It is my belief that the negative effect of this on search engine results is also overblown.
Anyhow, the least that you can do to get your site indexed by Google eventually is to go to Google directly and register, verify, and provide a sitemap for your site. I have put down a set of directions here for everyone's benefit...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=679200&tstart=0

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Are the META tags in a pdf file visible by search engines?

I have several hundred newsletters in pdf format on a website.
I am in the process of entering META tag information (title,description,keywords) through the Properties panel of each pdf file. Is this information that will be visible by search engines in a WordPress site?
I ask, because every post in WordPress has a place to enter keyword tags. The problem I'm having in WordPress is that every post shows the tag information rather than making it invisible. If the properties information in the pdf file does the same thing, I won't bother with entering it again in WordPress.
Thanks to anyone who might have insight into this question.
Many thanks!

It is a high order probability that your SQL's report generator is creating the PDF, not Acrobat (which by design and EULA cannot be used in as/with server).
That the report generator outputs to an old-old version of PDF bears this out.
Wiki articles on PDF are very nice for those high level intro summaries.
To know / understand PDF you purchase and study the ISO Standard for PDF (ISO 32000-1:2008).
Rather than "PDF validation" you may want to consider addressing the appearent root cause of the problem(s).
You can change the email2fax application to one that can deal with older PDF versions.
You can change the report generator to one that can output to the ISO Standard.
(Perhaps the in-use application can be configured to output to the current version of PDF (i.e., the ISO Standard).
Be well...

Making Flash Content Visible to Search Engines

When I was using Flash CS4, it published a HTML file that showed the text content of the movie, which made it easy for search engines to index the site. However, in Flash CS5.5, I notice it doesn't appear to do that anymore.
What do I do (step-by-step) to make my movie content visible to search engines?
Thanks!!

Create all the text content in HTML first.... then use swfobject for Flash detection to display the Flash if the visitor has Flash, regular HTML text if not.
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
For reiew:
If you think that Flash is somehow bad for SEO, it's time to dispell that MYTH!
If fact, in some circumstances I'll use Flash INSTEAD of just HTML because then I'll have better SEO than with just HTML alone.
http://www.worldbarefootcenter.com/
The link to World Barefoot Center in the above post is just one example. View the source code and you see a couple paragraphs of text along with regular HTML links.... but what displays is the Flash version of the image and Flash links.
The client provided the artwork for the page... and that's what they wanted to use a .jpg image. Well yes, that could be done in HTML but it would be virtually invisible to Google. So Instead I converted the image into a Flash .swf and used swfobject to display the Flash. swfobject allows you to create alternate content inside the <div> which also holds the Flash .swf, then when the page is loaded it detects if the browser has the Flash pluggin. If it does, it displays just the Flash content, if not, it displays the alternate content. Since almost everyone has the Flash pluggin, for most people the Flash version of the <div> will display.
The alternate content for that <div> can be any regular HTML text, images, media player, links, etc., anything that you would use if you were not using the Flash. Now the best part is that the alternate content can be "over the top" as far as optimizing for SEO, since it will not be seen by most viewers.
Here's another example of SEO with Flash.. again, the page is just a single image provided by the client:
http://www.ksowetsuits.com/
View the source code. The alt content is paragraph after paragraph of information about the site, including lists and links. If it was just the HTML, it might be kind of a boring Home page. But for SEO I can go "over the top" in promoting the site, since most viewers will never see that part... but it's all indexed by search engines. The end result is BETTER SEO using Flash than just HTML.
On another Web site, a Flash video is displayed, the alt content is the complete text narration of the video. Now how many people would take the time to read that if they could just watch the video instead?? again, better SEO with Flash than without. In fact in one case we had first page search result from that video narration within 4 hours of posting the page.
On still another site with a Flash video, the alt content is another video, but a .mov version, which will, in effect play Flash video on the iPhone (not possible you say??). Well since the iPhone does not have Flash pluggin, it simply displays the .mov version of the video, while everyione else sees the Flash version.
So anyway, if Flash is a part of your Web development, you should look into using swfobject and alternate content.
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

How can I make google my real default search engine?

Yes, I have set Google as my preferred search engine in Safari Preferences.
But when I try to do things such as define a word, it uses Bing.
Frankly, I do not care for Bing.
How can I make google always be my search engine?
Thanks

Here you go Andy.
I did learn some things while looking at it.
I need to clean out byTimemachine drive :-)
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Can some document make an error when the Search engine is working

Hi everybody, now I'm asking your opinion about this.
I'm install the Sun web Server 7 and work fine, I was thinking that but when I try to make some search I have something like an Internal error. I don't expect that, only want a message like not found or something.
Next we try with the same word, but change to capital letter the first one and walaaaa, the search was successful and the search engine found the documents.
This situation is happening with some words, like "bank", is I search for "bank" I have that message "Internal Error" but if I search this one "Bank" I found in my documents...
I think that maybe It something in the documents, but I don't know what to think now... When I seacrh in the logs when I index the files I only see this, but I don't know kind of error is... and is this has a relation with my situation...
[26/oct/2007:10:07:15] ERROR: ZP ZipEntryProcessor not found: ngnova.document.ZipEntryProcessor
[26/oct/2007:10:07:15] ERROR: ZP ZipEntryProcessor not found: ngnova.document.SOEntryProcessor
[26/oct/2007:10:07:15] ERROR: ZP ZipEntryProcessor not found: ngnova.document.SOEntryProcessor
[26/oct/2007:10:07:15] ERROR: ZP ZipEntryProcessor not found: ngnova.document.SOEntryProcessor
[26/oct/2007:10:07:15] ERROR: ZP ZipEntryProcessor not found: ngnova.document.SOEntryProcessor
[26/oct/2007:10:07:15] ERROR: ZP ZipEntryProcessor not found: ngnova.document.SOEntryProcessor
What you think??? Are you see something like that before??

We had a problem a year or so ago similar to this and it turned out that we had documents that contained special control characters and that was tripped up the search engine. The symptoms were similar -- if we searched for certain words, we'd get an error, but other words would return results fine. The reason turned out to be that when we were getting the error the collection of results contained a file that contained a control character.
I see I'm a year late in responding to your problem, but, hey, if someone else comes across this detail, great.
Dave

Website not appearing on search engines

I have published my website, it works when I go to it directly www.change2xero.com.au however when I search on google it is not appearing. Any ideas on what maybe causing this?

Did you just publish the site?
It does not happen instantly, you have to wait for google to find the site and index it. That or you set up google webmaster tools and tell google about the site's existence.
You also need to know your talking about xero which is a big search term.

Search engine optimization in dreamwaever

I'm pretty new to web site building and dreamweaver. I took
over a fitness competition site for a friend. Whenever I do a
google search for the contest nothing shows up. How can I improve
that? It doesn't have to be first, just somewhere in the search.
Thank you

"Whenever I do a google search for the contest nothing shows
up. How can I
improve that?"
The site is almost 100% images and therefore there is nothing
for Google to
index.
In other words, search engines see the site but they don't
see anything in
it because they cannot read or index images.
The first thing to do is change text in images to body text.
That is, text
content where you now have images. As a general rule, if it's
a word, phrase
or paragraph, type it in. Don't make it into an image.
e.g.
http://npcsacshow.com/event%20info.html
is one big JPG image. Ditch the
image and type the text in then format it with CSS. This will
make the page
visible to Search engines.
Read
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
for
tips on how to create a Google friendly site; especially the
"Design and
content guidelines".
Regards
John Waller

How can I make new messages in threaded view to be more visible?

In threaded view when a new message arrives the thread is underlined. Is there a way to make this more visible with color? This is really important as I tend to miss the new messages because I do not see the underline very well.
Thanks

How about View|Folders|Unread? That will at least reduce the amount of stuff you have to work through. Probably not useful if you aren't moving messages to folders by means of filters.
Or the QuickFilter, which has an "Unread" filter option. See the attached image.
Or you could create a Saved Search folder for unread messages.
You can set up code to tweak the colours but it's rather techie and not trivial to do.

My website doesn't show up using Firefox search engine - any ideas?

Is there some special way to register my website with the Firefox search engine?

No problems here. I see the two links in that section.
Did you try to clear or bypass the cache in case old files present in the cache?
You can reload the page and bypass the cache with:
* Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
* Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
* Press "Cmd + Shift + R" (MAC)
See [[Keyboard shortcuts]] and [[Mouse shortcuts]]
Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.
# Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
# Java Plug-in 1.6.0_11 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
Update the [[Managing the Flash plugin|Flash]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
Update the [[Java]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Java Platform: Download JRE)

Registering .mac website with search engines

Hello! Does publishing a site to .mac using iweb automatically register your site with all the search engines out there? I would like to publish a website to .mac but I'd like anybody to be able to stumble across it on a search engine such as google or whatever. Does iweb or .mac take care of this or do I need to look after this myself? Simply by publishing with iweb to .mac, could my site be found if someone were to type key words or topic specific words into google?
Thank you!

This is a reply from .Mac Support
—"Why can't I google my website?"
Most Web search engines use programs called "spiders" to scan the Web for new pages to add to their search results. To protect Apple's customers, and in accordance with Apple's privacy policy, we do not allow spiders to access .Mac and gather data from .Mac HomePages. As a result, .Mac HomePages by default do not appear as search results in Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and other search engines.
If you are interested in having your HomePage appear in a search engine's search results, you can visit that search engine's website to learn how to add your page's URL to their index.—
I have tried registering my .Mac site with Google and it has never come up.

Getting Website on Search Engines? I used Dreamweaver CS4.

I have a website that was launched recently, which was created with Dreamweaver CS4. After using some search engines, I found that on some of them, some of my pages were appearing on the first page - however, none of them are the home page. Of the pages that do appear, some of them don't even contain the keywords that I typed in to the search engine.
Here's my question: what do I need to do to get my website higher up on search engines?

Hi,
first: the "magic word" to google is: SEO (search engine optimization). Here you will find how to try to carry out your plans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/de//web masters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
German (but still useful) links:
http://suchmaschinenoptimierung.michaelsattler.de/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchmaschinenoptimierung
Forum:
http://www.seochat.com/c/b/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/
Hans-G.

How can I make the cursor more visible?

I have seen in some training videos a ring around the cursor to make it more visible. How can I get this ring around my cursor in Photoshop CS 3?
Anyone knows? /Tommy

This should do it:
1. Go to systems preference and click it. (it'll be under the top L hand side, click the apple logo and "System Preferences" will appear in a drop menu)
2. Go to Show All
3. Click Universal (round blue shape with a person logo)
4. Click Mouse
5. Go to Cursor size (at the bottom of the page) and adjust the size from normal to large. Watch your actual cursor on screen so you can see how big or small you're making it.
voila: a change of arrow or cursor size.

How can my website searchable by search engine?

Hi all
My website is running with Dynamic DNS and I would like to know how can my website be searchable by search engines like Yahoo, Google? Do I need to register my site with them or it is not possbile with DDNS websites?
Also, I have seen website (like Yahoo) that if you bookmark it, you will see a little logo on the left of the bookmark in IE. Does anyone how to add the logo on the bookmark?
Thank you very much!
Edmond

Add the following code to each of your web Page
<LINK REL='SHORTCUT ICON' href='A.ICO'>

Keywords, what is more important search engines

Which is more important for search engines: keywords in meta
tags, words in
title pages, words in alt tags, text on page.
I thought I had read that keywords in meta tags was being
deprecated but I
could be wrong.

That's ImageGalleryMagic from the wizards at PVII.
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Adobe Community Expert
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> Hi yea Murray,
> What extension did you use for the pics gallery is that
one of p7s, I was
> amazed to see the larger pic only load when the
thumbnail was clicked.
>
> regards
>
> kenny
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> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> The major search engines are said to ignore keyword
meta tags. I can't
>> tell you for certain that they do, but I can tell
you this: a site I
>> brought live in April is now #1 (out of 12,300,000
hits) in Google for -
>>
>> wild horse image
>>
>> a search phrase that would seem pretty generic, and
the linked page
>> doesn't have any keywords (in fact, none of the
pages on the site do)....
>>
>> www.wildimages.biz/wi_gallery-wild-horses.shtml
>>
>> The pages are well coded (if I do say so myself)
with extensive use of
>> title, <h#> tags, linked filenames, and good
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>>> Which is more important for search engines:
keywords in meta tags, words
>>> in title pages, words in alt tags, text on page.
>>> I thought I had read that keywords in meta tags
was being deprecated
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What do I do so that search engines find me easier?

Hello,
I was told by a friend that I could put a list of words relating to my business into my website somehow so that search engines would find me easier when they are typed in to the search bar but I dont know how to go about it.
Ive had my website for 6 months and still 'google for instance' cant find me unless i use only my title "Crafty Balloons" and even that only showed results in the last 2 weeks.
I would like to be found using search words like "balloon twisting" "balloons" "entertainment" "party planning" etc...
also I would like my images to show up when people type "balloon dragon" etc into a search engine can this be done too?
please help
ps I love this support site. you guys are the greatest

Actually you need to do a bit more tweaking than has been discussed.
First you need to add meta description tags in the <head> section of each of your pages. Write a brief to the point description of what services you are offering such as:
Balloon twisting in Mandurah, WA. We provide all kinds of balloons for all kinds of balloon ocassions, birthday party balloons, festive, fete and corporate function balloons, store, promotion and wedding balloons.
Next you need to get some of the important keywords into correctly marked up html on your page.
<h> tags will be seen as more important by the Google spider so you should try and somehow incorporate the important keywords into those tags.
On your home page you have the following inside a <h2> tag which is good
Birthday Parties
Festivals and Fetes
Corporate Functions
Store Promotions
Weddings and Gifts
but youre not providing any of the above youre providing balloons for those ocassions. So you should re-write something like below:
<h1>Welcome to Crafty Balloons based in Mandurah, WA</h1>
<h2>We provide all kinds of balloons and balloon twisting for birthday parties, festivals, fetes, corporate functions, store promotions and weddings.</h2>
Then you can add the two paragraphs that already exist.
Also your keyword list should have a comma between each entry - balloons, balloon, crafts, party, parties, etc
If you make those changes to each page and wait a few days before typing into Google - balloon twisting in Mandurah Wa or - balloons for corporate functions in Mandurah then you have a good chance of being listed.
Most people when they search for something such as balloons will search locally first so having your location as a prominant keyword is always a good option.
Try to get listed in as many good FREE dircetories on the web as possible. It has been proven that the more inbound links you have to your site then Google finds it more 'interesting' and will elevate you up the rankings.

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