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My husband originally made javascript buttons for my navigation, but I deleted them after learning they weren't good for spiders. However, they're still showing up on my stats as error codes. Plus, when I run my site through netmechanic, it shows up as javascript even though the buttons are no longer there.
Another question I have is that when I look to see where people visited on my site (in my stats), it shows all of these htm pages I originally was going to use - but never did, plus the javascript buttons are being shown as files requested. How do I get these deleted out of my site permanently?
My goal is to build hundreds of wedding articles and to drive traffic to my wedding store from them. So my next question is this: The images I used, some of them I just right-clicked and copied and pasted into the site from another site (I'm allowed to use them). Should I have saved the images first in MyWebs or is it okay to just stick them in there as a cut/paste?
Thanks so much ahead of time!
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[edited by: tedster at 4:31 pm (utc) on May 7, 2006]
It sounds like you haven't actually cleaned out the javascript, at least not from all the pages. Perhaps you just removed the button images, not the code itself?
Another question I have is that when I look to see where people visited on my site (in my stats), it shows all of these htm pages I originally was going to use - but never did
When you check the log files, are they showing as gone (404 error), or still there (200 - page found and delivered)? At any rate, it sounds like you still have links pointing to them.
You should take a really close look at the pages with a text editor like Wordpad, and see if you still have code that needs to be removed. A tag checker would probably help too, and running things through the W3C tool for validation is good.
[edited by: Stefan at 3:12 am (utc) on May 8, 2006]
For analyzing, I edited my post to add a couple of things - a tagchecker (you can get them freeware) and the W3C which is free.
if I remove the Javascript section, it screws up my page
That's not good. Number one, a lot of people don't have javascript enabled (such as myself right now using Firefox - I only turn it on for certain sites), so your site would always be messed-up for me. If you have pages that require javascript, you should at least be able to detect users who don't have it and then deliver alternate pages that render properly. You might have to think of redesigning things, eh. Do you have any friends who are good at html code who could help you? You could do some reading up on coding, etc, until you twist someone's arm to pitch in (preferably for free :-)
