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Completely out of curiousity, what is the reason you cannot post a URL on the forum? I didnt post my URL because I noticed everyone who does has it snipped
# Please don't drop promotional urls (we do not allow sig file urls). Signing your name is fine, however commercialized posts will be edited. We tend to err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of the system by reducing flippant commercialized posts. Affiliate based URLs are not allowed any where on the system.
1 1 Missing DOCTYPE declaration at start of document (explanation...) <HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"CONTENT="0"></HEAD>
1 50 end tag for "HEAD" which is not finished <HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"CONTENT="0"></HEAD> (explanation)
But this is the head from the actual page when I view it's source. I've removed our title, desc and keywords, but everything else here is as the page is when I select view source from the internet exlporer menu:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>Page</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="products">
<meta name="description" content="Page">
</head>
Why is the validator coming up with a completely different head than ours? I've never had any formal training in HTML (hence Frontpage) so please forgive me if I am missing something obvious.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
Then run it through the validator and clean the code (especially some of those strange meta tags you have).
Also I recommend you capitalise the first letter in yoru Keyword (not keyword) and Description (not description) tags. Perhaps even putting the descrip above the keywords.
Not sure if the latter will help but should.
Those strange meta-tags get added by Frontpage, and it is impossible to get rid of them without manually editing the page in notepad or something afterwards.
I still don't see any reason it should be getting a meta-refresh of 0 from that header?
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
;)
(Hey, no offense... ;))
But that would be another topic in another forum...
Just forget it.
But on a more important note, again IMHO, I think you need more text on you pages to give the spiders some words to chew on.
Just one man's opinion.
Your page produces js errors in Opera 6 Linux.
Are you sure you are not cloaking, Google's cache has a meta refresh?
>I recommend you capitalise the first letter in yoru Keyword (not keyword) and Description (not description) tags. Perhaps even putting the descrip above the keywords.
This shouldn't be a problem at all, case is not important, order too.
/added
Checked with telnet, it may be a Google bug, it also issues a 301 permanent redirect to almost the same page (& becomes &, but it's basicly the same).
Someone with a T3 (such as myself) could probably sit there waiting for the page to open and be downloading megs and megs of refreshed pages!
Weeeiirddddd.
I think what was happening is because the default pages on my web-server must be set up as "default.htm,default.asp" or something like that, when it didn't find the default.htm it would send a meta-refresh to get the next page in line. Well that's my theory. Hopefully it corrects itself now.
Thanks for your help. I did mail google, and the response I got was fairly unsatisfactory. It looked like a cut-and-paste response, which didn't even address the issue. Anyway, it's all good now and I am happy again :)
