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VietSon
MD user level 5
Joined: May 01, 2004
Posts: 94
Location: http://www.nhipcau.net
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Sep 15, 2004 - 09:41 AM |
 
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| Post subject: What do you do to promote your Md-site ? |
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any ideas are welcome! |
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dpottier
MD user level 5
Joined: July 17, 2004
Posts: 261
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
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Sep 15, 2004 - 05:25 PM |
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| Post subject: Re: What do you do to promote your Md-site ? |
VietSon
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| any ideas are welcome! |
Make sure you register your site with DMOZ as most of the search engine BOTS check this site periodically.
There is an expensive commercial program, Web CEO that has just released a free version. You can get a copy of the Free Web CEO here. It will take care of search engine registrations for you and a lot more. It is an amazing SEO package.
Search Engine Promotion offers a great Key word Density checker here
Hope these help
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PeteBest
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Joined: Oct 06, 2003
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Sep 15, 2004 - 11:02 PM |
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testuser
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Joined: Nov 18, 2003
Posts: 117
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Sep 16, 2004 - 05:50 AM |
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Here are my few pennies to this.. I've been trying to promote my site as such for the past 8mo and have found out a few things..
Do not buy traffic ie. those sites that promote "buy 1000 visitors for xyz.."
Get as much links to your site as you can (Arellis can help)
Encourage your users to promote your site for you.. affiliate programs, referer contest, etc
Create (or have someone create) banners for your site (check ebay for banner creators)
Join a banner exchange (at least 2)
My quest continues for more traffic as well  |
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dpottier
MD user level 5
Joined: July 17, 2004
Posts: 261
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
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Sep 16, 2004 - 08:30 AM |
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Pete
I was just the site report card for a site and one of the major code faults found appears to be "45 Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute" Any idea of what is causing this, is this caused by a fault with the News module?
Second relates to ContentExpress and many of the URL's in CE Menu blocks not getting converted to short URLs by the current release of phtml.htaccess 106 Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&ceid"
Nigglies but ones that can affect site ranking in the SE's
Final one and worst was load time and a part of this is MD or the News module not following the configured setting for only 5 news articles on the main page.
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PeteBest
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Sep 16, 2004 - 08:54 AM |
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David,
Yeah, I noticed that about my site as well. Can't say that I'm too bothered by their warning as my site now meets W3C 4.01 strict (frontpage only ATM) and that didn't mention anything about the summary tag in tables.
The setting for articles on the main page has been covered here before I think. Basically, the settings in the news module to show the max amount of stories just relates to new users (and unregistered users) existing users have to be modified manually in the db |
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Naphta
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Joined: Aug 01, 2003
Posts: 517
Location: Berlin - Deutschland
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Sep 16, 2004 - 09:01 AM |
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| I was just the site report card for a site and one of the major code faults found appears to be "45 Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute" Any idea of what is causing this, is this caused by a fault with the News module? |
This is not caused by the news module, but by your templates using tables for layout. The summary tag isn't neccessary but useful regarding accessibility.
>>The summary of a table is never displayed in visual browsers; it is exclusively designed for screen readers and speech browsers. It is exactly what it sounds like: a summary, a longer description than the caption.<<
More about the summary tag
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dpottier
MD user level 5
Joined: July 17, 2004
Posts: 261
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
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Sep 16, 2004 - 09:36 AM |
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| The summary of a table is never displayed in visual browsers; it is exclusively designed for screen readers and speech browsers.More about the summary tag |
Many thanks for educating me on this aspect. When I started using PC's my first "teacher" was visually handicapped. Can the "summary" process be automated so that a summary=description is included in each table in MD Pro or any other CMS once the command has been added to the tables?
Or will simpy changing a table description to <Table summary=> get a summary included?
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dpottier
MD user level 5
Joined: July 17, 2004
Posts: 261
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
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Sep 17, 2004 - 04:21 AM |
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| The setting for articles on the main page has been covered here before I think |
Did a cursory search in Forums, not much luck - 7+ pages of results. Checked my tables but no clue there. Could only find field for one parm for stories shown on page. C'est la vie.
One thing needed in Forums - a descent search tool that will actually find a string and possibly rank results. Much less time and frustration.
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PeteBest
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Sep 17, 2004 - 04:46 AM |
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Hmm, I can't seem to find it either. Ah well, nevermind. The section in the DB is in the md_users table and the field you need to change is pn_storynum IIRC |
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dpottier
MD user level 5
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Sep 17, 2004 - 05:25 AM |
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Pete
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| The section in the DB is in the md_users table and the field you need to change is pn_storynum IIRC |
Thanks for the tip. It done and that would explain why I could not find it in the stories tables
Dropped to 6 to balance main page side blocks. An inportant area of control and should be selectable from settings
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PeteBest
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Sep 17, 2004 - 05:32 AM |
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Yeah, I know. Sadly I've missed the boat for 1.0.7, so this is another thing I'd like to see added for 1.1 |
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dpottier
MD user level 5
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Location: Victoria, British Columbia
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Sep 17, 2004 - 08:01 AM |
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Pete
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| Yeah, I know. Sadly I've missed the boat for 1.0.7, so this is another thing I'd like to see added for 1.1 |
We will just have to hack it until then and i at least know what to hack now. It will make a nice improvement area for 1.1.
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