jpinkerton wrote:
As always - comments and corrections always ppreciated.......
1 - cool URLs _never_ change, this is the second time that you
changed the "news" URL resulting in a 404 for GoogleBot
and all other visitors of my sites (incl. the mirror which
might be frozen by its hoster soon, and even if it isn't I
update it rarely)
2 - cool URLs _never_ change, people use bookmarks if they like
a page, and they delete the bookmark when it's broken, they
NEVER come back, the WWW is big enough to ignore anything
for minimal reasons (e.g. I'd never link to pobox after the
big oops destroying why and wizard for my browser, I'd
never link to the FUBAR RIDICULUS SPF adoption roll, etc.)
3 - there was once a single page with all relevant SPF tools,
that was what I needed and wanted. It's gone... :-(
Now I'm forced to copy your forms hidden on new subpages
of new pages and roll my own SPF tool collection instead
of linking to you, is that what you wanted ?
4 - using more than one to separate items doesn't work,
a single space is good enough. For important separators
between anchors try ...</a>   <a ... Don't ask why,
it's not your fault, it works, but not always with
5 - don't use <font size=7> instead of <h1>, GoogleBot hates
this idea, Lynx ignores it, try <h1><big>text</big></h1>,
or better accept the size=6 for <h1>text</h1>
6 - don't use <font size=4> instead of <h2>. Same reasons, see
<http://purl.net/xyzzy/strikedel.htm> for font size issues.
7 - don't use <font size=3> instead of <h3>, see also 5) and 6)
8 - don't use long lists of <br><br><br>, it has exactly the
same effect as one <br> by definition with every browser
supporting an absolute minimum of Web standards. A long
list of <br><br><br> immediately before the </body></html>
is pointless.
9 - avoid <center> like hell unless you intend to close it by a
</center> later. Maybe try <div align="center"> and close
it with </div> at the correspoding end. In the case of a
table try <table align=center><tr><td>...</td></tr></table>
10 - validate your markup and use a text editor to create HTML.
Windows is shipped with a nice HTML editor: notepad.exe
[No, this is _not_ a joke]
11 - fix your <meta keywords> and <meta description>, GoogleBot
ignores these meta constructs, but it may use this stuff to
identify spam. More than 10 comma separated keywords, and
you're disqualified. The correct format for keywords is
<meta name="keywords" content="one, t w o, 3, ..., 10" >
The most simple fix is probably to remove it, but YMMV.
<meta name="description" content="at most 100 char.s" > is
the idea for this construct, more => disqualification by
GoogleBot. Use notepad.exe and a HTML validator, see 10)
So far I found no other serious HTML problems in the 24 lines
of <http://spf.idimo.com/check_your_records/> - oops, problem
#12 is the URL, stick to spf-help.net, and use relative URLs,
see also 1) and 2)
kernel panic: flame thrower out of ammu, buy more fuel today
Bye, Frank