Some technical notes

Add url to search engines

One of the goals of this web site was to learn about getting a web site in Google. First problem encountered was adding the url to google (http://www.google.com/addurl.html.). This problem was caused by the method planet is using to give access to a web site. If you are connected via a planet connection, the url is different from the 'normal' url. For this reason I used another server to register the url at Google.

After registering the url, I created a google account and registered the url as one of my urls. This was confirmed by adding a meta tag to the index.html header.

28th of September. Added my site to www.yahoo.com and www.google.com. Had to register again (lost track of the number of users / passwords). After registering added the URL and have to wait for weeks to get the site included.

Search engines (www.famvankoutrik.nl):

Other sites:

Controle HTML / CSS

De HTML source code moet wel voldoen aan de opgestelde regels anders kan het gebeuren dat de pagina's niet goed getoond worden in (alle) browsers. De HTML code kun je controleren via een controle functie van de w3 organisatie. Het nadeel van deze functie is dat je een controle per pagina moet uitvoeren.

Om meerdere pagina's te controleren kun je gebruik maken van deze Multi Page validator, echter dit kan enige tijd duren.

Controle van web links

In HTML staan allerlei verwijzigingen naar andere pagina's en het kan gebeuren dat zo'n verwijzing niet meer geldig is. Via deze website kun je de verwijzingen controleren (Link Validator)

Tevens kun je in de google webmaster applicaties een overzicht vinden van de crawl fouten.

Site maps

Zoekmachines houden van sitemaps en dus gebruik ik http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ om sitemaps te maken in onderstaand formaat:

Na het aanmaken van de sitemaps, deze ook verversen in de google website.

Site icon

How silly it can get, it took me over an hour to display a duck in the favourites. Don't know whether it is the favicon.ico in the root of my web site or the one in the link, but it works. On every page I have added link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="../images/favicon.ico".

Email address

I have created an alias email address and added an send email icon to each page. Hopefully this alias will prevent spam as I can regularly change aliasses (panor96@planet.nl)

Google found me!!!! (March 2007)

Finally Google found my web site. However, it did not find my photos but the only page with text only. So it looks like Google is ignoring the other pages. What I will do is add some more text to one of the photo pages and wait to see what will happen

Redirect old pages

I checked the google results by using the command : site:home.planet.nl/~fkoutrik in google and found some old pages on my site which were deleted. I created the pages again, but redirect to the correct page now. The < and > are missing in this example, otherwise it would redirect this page as well. 


<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" 
  content="0;URL=http://home.planet.nl/~fkoutrik/200607_bourg_doisans.html">

Content type

On using a validator to check the content of my web site, got an error message about the charset used.

  
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

Statistics and counters

In lycos you can add a counter to some pages and you can maintain statistics of visitors. This is accessible via www.famvankoutrik.nl/stats. However this is only accessible if you have the right password.