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My site on Google is on old version

If Google continue to list an ‘old’ version of your site (i.e. to list www.my123site.org despite the fact that your site now lives at www.my456site.org ) you need to update the links that are pointing to the sites.

Since Google robots jump from page to page via hyperlinks, someone must still be linking to the defunct page. Once others correct their links, Google can too.

Once your new site is live, you may wish to place a permanent redirect (using a “301” code in HTTP headers) on your old site to inform visitors and search engines that your site has moved.

Excerpt taken from Google Webmaster Info

Google shows out of date site content

When you update information on your site it does not automatically update instantly in Google’s index. Rather, Google’s index is updated approximately once a month after the Google robots have crawled more than 8 billion web pages.

This process is totally automated, so updated or outdated link submissions are not necessary. Changes to your site’s content will be noted by the next crawl. Due to the volume of sites in the index, it is not possible to manually update pages on an individual basis.

Excerpt taken from Google Webmaster Info

How to manage meta tags using FrontPage

Adding and maintaining your META TAGS with FrontPage is easy! Follow the simple steps below to ensure your web site is fully optimised.

Step 1) Right Click on your home page and choose “PAGE PROPERTIES” from the Popup Menu.

Step 2) Click on the TAB that says CUSTOM

Step 3) Under the UserVariables section click ADD.

For the name type “keywords” and for the value, enter keywords applicable to your page.
To keep your page search engine friendly type 15-25 significant keywords that describe your site.

Step 4) Under the UserVariables section click ADD again.
For the name type “description” and for the value, enter a description applicable to your page.
To keep your page search engine friendly, the recommended maximum of characters for you keywords tag is 200 characters.

Step 5) When finished you will see the two new custom META tags showing (as below)

Step 6) Save your page and publish your web site to the server.

How to Create, Add, Check and Analyse Meta Tags

This meta tags tutorial is designed to help you make the best use of your meta tags. Meta tags are still important in the majority of search engines – make sure your meta tags are configured well to maximise your search engine positioning.

Meta tags should always be placed in the head section of the HTML document between the actual <HEAD> tags, before the BODY tag. This is very important with framed pages, as a lot of webmasters tend to forget to include them on individual framed pages.

Remember, if you only use meta tags on the frameset pages, you may be missing a large number of potential visitors.

Meta tags are important. Do not underestimate their importance in today’s modern search engine algorithms.

What is the general format for meta tags?

Meta tags generally follow the format as detailed below:

<html>
<head>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”This page ….” />
<meta name=”description” content=”This page ….” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow” />
<title>…</title>
</head>
<boy>

Essential meta tags for the Search Engines

The TITLE tag is not actually a META TAG but it is the most important tag for search engines:

<title>These are my most important keywords up to approx 8 words / 64 characters</title>

The title tag is what most search engines display and what your potential visitor will see first before selecting which site to view from the list so make sure it is effective.

Using the META description attribute, you can add your own description for your pages:

<META NAME=”description” CONTENT=”Sony Digital Cameras Online – Supplier of Sony Digital Cameras at the Lowest prices! Cornwall, Plymouth and Devon.” />

Use a minimum of 85 characters and up to a maximum of 200 characters, and make sure that you include several of your keywords in the description.

Keywords are very important since it is through them that people will find your site.

<META NAME=”keywords” CONTENT=”digital,camera,cameras,supplier,devon,plymouth,cornwall,sony” />

Use a minimum of 150 characters (20 keywords) up to around 600 characters (90 keywords) and put the most important keywords as close to the top of your page as possible. By the way, don’t think you can spike the keywords by using the same word repeated over and over, as most search engines have refined their spiders to ignore such spam. Instead, use each keyword only once (include both singular and plural forms if appropriate).

Tell the robots which pages to index – and which not

<META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”index,follow” />

The default for the robot attribute is “all”. This would allow all of the files to be indexed. “None” would tell the spider not to index any files, and not to follow the hyperlinks on the page to other pages. “Index” indicates that this page may be indexed by the spider, while “follow” would mean that the spider is free to follow the links from this page to other pages. However, “noindex” would tell the spider not to index this page, but would allow it to follow the links and index those pages. “nofollow” would allow the page itself to be indexed, but the links could not be followed. As you can see, the robots attribute can be very useful.

Optional Meta Tags

You can also specify the distribution of your pages for indexing. It can be global, or restricted to certain countries.

<META NAME=”distribution” CONTENT=”Global” />

To help the robots classify your site, you have the possibility of assigning a rating for your pages:

<META NAME=”rating” CONTENT=”General” />

If you are making revisions to your site or updating frequently, it is helpful to ask the robots to revisit your site after a certain time. It is recommended that you use a time frame between 3 weeks to 6 months.

<META NAME=”revisit after” CONTENT=”30days” />

Meta Tag Generator

Now you are armed with the knowledge it is time to build your new meta tags with our meta tag generator, then simply incorporate them into your site and within the time the engines will pick up your new tags.

Visit the Meta Tag Generator

How to upload your website using DreamWeaver

Setting up a Site in Dreamweaver

The first step and probably the most time consuming part is to set up a site in Dreamweaver. If you have done this already, and your FTP settings are correct, then proceed to the next section, otherwise, continue reading on.

  1. In the Dreamweaver main (design) screen, press F8 and you will see in the right-hand pane, the Files section will open up.
  2. In the Files section, you will see a set of menus, click on the “Site” menu. In there you need to click “New Site…”.
  3. Enter in a name for your site. Make it something meaningful so you can easily identify it from other sites you may be working on.
  4. Next you need to find your site’s root folder. To do this click on the folder icon and browse to where it is located on your computer.
  5. Now you need to type in the full URL of your website in the HTTP Address box. This is so Dreamweaver can check your links.
  6. Once you have done that, click on “Remote Info”. This can be found in the list on the left.

  1. This is where you set up your FTP settings. At the moment you will see a single menu, click it, and choose “FTP”. A few new boxes will appear.
  2. In the FTP host box, type your domain name.
  3. In the Host Directory box, type /var/www/html/.
  4. In the Login and Password boxes, enter your FTP username and password.
  5. Select the Use Firewall option if you are connecting to the remote server from behind a firewall.
  6. If your firewall configuration requires use of passive FTP (which lets your local software set up the FTP connection rather than requesting the remote server to set it up), select Use Passive FTP and this will make your connection more stable.
  7. When you are sure all the settings are correct, click “Ok”.
  8. Click “Ok” and then click “Done”. You are now ready to upload your site.

Now that you have set Dreamweaver up correctly, you can finally start uploading your site to the web!