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[trixie Friend trixieJoin date: April 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#132600

I used the JA Dravity Template but Google is picking it up weird. When I do a search for – the following description comes up instead of the index page –

Which destroys any search engine value for my customer. Anyone know why?

Thanks!
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[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267198

well, its not a template issue as this has not happened to anyone else.

your site is down so I can’t see anything

did you install from quickstart
did you edit your htaccess file
did you install any seo components or plugins

[trixie Friend trixieJoin date: April 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#267223

i’m sorry – the customer asked it to be closed so I will reopen it now.

1. Yes I installed the quickstart
2. I didnt edit the htaccess
3. I didnt install any seo components
4. I did install a youtube module – as you can see.

(I broke the link to avoid this thread coming up in searches. Sorry)

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267240

your meta tags are not formatting correctly either

when your enabled SEO, did you also enable mod rewrite and change your htaccess.txt to .htaccess (with a dot)

are you hosted on a windows server or linux?

did you register your template with JA?

[trixie Friend trixieJoin date: April 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#267270

Yes, I enable the mod rewrite and I changed the htaccess accordingly – I just did that today.

I am hosted on a Linux server running Apache.

I did not register the template with JA – how do I do that?

Thank you!

XOXOXO :-*

<em>@mj1256 75828 wrote:</em><blockquote>your meta tags are not formatting correctly either

when your enabled SEO, did you also enable mod rewrite and change your htaccess.txt to .htaccess (with a dot)

are you hosted on a windows server or linux?

did you register your template with JA?</blockquote>

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267273

these templates are not free, you need to buy a membership for them to work and to get customer support, but you also should not have been able to access this forum without a membership.

go to here.

[trixie Friend trixieJoin date: April 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#267274

The template is from my Membership so I assume it’s registered. I did not get it for free, it was through a paid membership so that shouldn’t be the problem.

I have this Membership and then one that is paid.

<em>@mj1256 75864 wrote:</em><blockquote>these templates are not free, you need to buy a membership for them to work and to get customer support, but you also should not have been able to access this forum without a membership.

go to here.</blockquote>

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267276

OK, you do need to go to your member linik and enter the domain URL into the form to register it.

OK, linux is good
changed to .htaccess
enabled mod rewrite.

do yo have error login enabled?

these look like site server headers, but why is google getting that?

I really don’t know what caused it at this point, I’ve never had it happen to my sites

I’m going to post over at SEF and see what they say

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267278

also, seeing this happened at google, go to your google webmaster account and see if they report any errors there, also run their verification tools

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267279

its actually getting the stats for the apache environment – HTTP Headers Information on your server

I just posted it at SEF, someone there will figure it out by tomorrow

1 user says Thank You to mj1256 for this useful post

1. trixie

[trixie Friend trixieJoin date: April 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#267301

I really appreciate it. 🙂

<em>@mj1256 75870 wrote:</em><blockquote>its actually getting the stats for the apache environment – HTTP Headers Information on your server

I just posted it at SEF, someone there will figure it out by tomorrow</blockquote>

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#267391

ah duh! google indexed this page, remove it and wait to be recrawled (do not submit, never ever submit to a search engine)

hotmoppedshowerpanliners.com/test/php/test.php

I was looking for everything but the obvious. There is no rule that says that a search engine is going to crawl and index your index page as your main page. It will pick what it thinks is most relevent. One of those factors for ranking is incoming links, and that link you posted in the forum linking to that page made IT the most relevent page on your site.

also, remove that link from your post and lets hope that on the next pass google indexes your index page. you just have to wait and see.

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