Bloody slack
Bloody slack, that's what I am. No offense folks, just taking one thing at a time with my new site, namely content. Have been intending to get into typelists and nominate other bloggers I read. Time to get out and about a bit, acknowledge a few kindred souls, I have been visiting. This list can now be found in the sidebar under BLOG ROLL. Original eh ? Actually it's a working title, yet useless me can't.....oh, forget it. I'd like to add a Sydney Blogs list also.
Still intend do a full re-design, in time, though I am happy enough with the recent banner. I loved the images of the Bridge and Darling Harbour, and thought they'd sit well with a Sydneycentric blog. Though I'm first to acknowledge, window-dressing means nothing without decent content.
Has anyone got any suggestions for search engine registration ? I had intended to register with search engines, etc., but now I find a charge involved. Already, I receive a half-dozen hits per day from search engines, (sometimes top of the list or, usually on the front page) so i think, do I need it ? What with all the comment spam and such.
Also, if you want to syndicate this site then the whole post is now available, rather than a short excerpt. Apparently, readers and aggregators prefer it that way. Otherwise, if any readers are having technical problems with any aspect of the site, or have suggestions for improvements, please let me know.
Search engine registration is a crock. A search engine will generally find you all by itself, and TypePad's default templates are constructed pretty well.
A good start would be to use a real HTML file for your frameset instead of the fragment you have at the moment -- then you can add a title, keyword info and a descroption/summary. Search engines will still follow the frames, but it doesn't hurt to pack some of that info into the frameset page too.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Man of Lettuce</title>
<meta name="description" content="Daily blogging from a Sydney cab driver." />
<meta name="keywords" content="put your keywords here" />
</head>
<body>
<frameset rows="1" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="http://jafablog.typepad.com/man_of_lettuce/" noresize />
</frameset>
</body>
</html>
I'm pretty sure typepad will natively handle your domain name now too.
Posted by: Raena | January 29, 2004 at 04:46 PM
Thanks Raena, just as I suspected. I'll get the backroom techo onto it. You're a star.
Posted by: jafa | January 29, 2004 at 04:55 PM