In the coming weeks I`m planning on making the whole Sitebee website secure through the SSL protocol, now the only drawback is that the search engines will see two different versions of the Sitebee website. One on the standard http:// and the other on https:// protocols.
In the eyes of search engine crawlers that equates to duplicated content. We need to tell the crawler to which version of the website to crawl, you can do this using .htaccess and robots.txt
1. Create a robots file and name it robots_ssl.txt in the root directory (public_html).
2. Add the following code on the robots_ssl.txt file:-
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
3. Add the following code to your .htaccess file in your root directory.
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt
That`s it, you have now told the search engine crawler to index only your https: pages, thus removing the chance of receiving a duplicate content penalty. The .htaccess file will now redirect the search engine crawlers to the robots_ssl.txt which tells the crawler to use port 443. (If you have a custom port for ssl just replace 443 with your port number)
There`s a little more going on here, but without trying blow your brain, it`s the simplest way I can explain it.
Here is the expected arrival dates for the Google Page rank updates for 2013. If you followed the pagerank updates in 2012 you will notice that the time- frames are almost the same. The PR algorithm updates are performed 4 time per year.
Now as mentioned they are expected updates, Google may change the dates.
1st Update due around January 28 to February 6
2nd Update due around June 27 to July 7
3rd Update due around September 29 to 4 October
4th Update due around 24 December to 29 December
If you have recently setup a new website and wondering what page rank your domain will receive, I can tell you that most websites will receive a pagerank between PR1 to PR3.
In recent months you may have heard the Buzzword “Growth Hacker” being thrown around in various marketing and business community hubs. With the mention of the word “Hacker” it may put the wind up some people.
What is a Growth Hacker?
A growth hacker is an individual with various skill-sets, predominately in digital marketing (social, on page, off page) and web developer (front end, back end) skills. The role of a growth hacker is to market your products and services to your target audiences in a speedy manageable fashion. They may also suggest ways to improve your products, website and the way you deliver your products.
Seeing as FFMPEG Auto Installer do not give clear instructions on how to install their packages I have produced a easy guide which hopefully should be of some use to server admins and novices alike.
Firstly SSH into your server.
Now run the following commands:
mkdir ~/ffmpeg-packages
cd ~/ffmpeg-packages
wget http://mirror.ffmpeginstaller.com/old/scripts/ffmpeg7/ffmpeginstaller.7.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ffmpeginstaller.7.4.tar.gz
cd ffmpeginstaller.7.4
Im using version ffmpeginstaller.7.4 for this installation, make sure you edit your command to coincide with the current package.
If your a Manchester Business with a website that you would like to promote on the internet then Sitebee can help! We provide local and national SEO campaigns using proven techniques, our SEO campaigns will get your website ranking for your products and services.
What makes us different from other SEO agencies is that we are small and provide the more personal touch. We strive to give you the best possible service at an affordable price. Many small businesses in the Greater Manchester have seen significant increases in leads and sales from the work carried out by Sitebee. (more…)
Do you run a driving school and have a website? Have you been thinking of giving your website a more upto date look and feel?
Then maybe Sitebee can help, over the last couple of years we`ve worked with dozen of driving schools around the UK and Ireland with their websites. We can design and build you a good looking user friendly website that will also be easy to manage.
Please get in touch and we can advise you better plus provide you with a free no-obligation quote.
If your looking for some great resources to help with the development of your own website, Then this list may just be the list your looking for. We`ve compiled a list of various resources that could be useful in developing and promoting your websites.
Including in the list are a list of websites where you can find: stats and counters, free templates, css menus and layouts plus website building tutorials.
Sitebee has ordered another server to host your websites and our development websites, This morning we have leased a top of the range dedicated server with the following specifications.
We have almost outgrown our current server, so now is a good time to upgrade, we will also be installing a range of applications on the new server and tweaking it to our own specifications and requirements. Including FFMPEG and popular media encoding software plus all popular server side scripting languages.
Processor: Intel i3 2130 3.4+ GHZ
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Disk: 2 x 1TB HDD (one for hosting, secondly for backups)
Connection: GigaEthernet
We will be migrating all accounts over to the new server in the next few weeks. You will not see any downtime during the migration process, should you require anymore information please get in touch.
Here`s the latest free html5 / css3 template for you to download.
I was bored this evening and thinking to myself ive not created any free templates for a few months, so I created this theme which I have called: Shades of Grey.
Yes, it was inspired by that book, which ive not read and have no intention too neither. I went for a minimalistic feel for the theme using different shades of grey, hopefully that will allow you to re-style the theme to suit your own needs. I have also marked out each of sections with web designer notes in the html and css so you can find your way around the coding much easier.
Features:
Fully HTML5 validated
Fully CSS3 validated
Google Fonts – Kite One
Feel free to download and use however you like. If you do decide to use this template for one of your own projects, could you please leave an anchor link of www.sitebee.co.uk somewhere within your website?
Ive been working on a gallery for one of my freelance clients today using the open source gallery script called Plogger, I have been trying to figure out how to embed a single album into a static php webpage. Unfortunately the Plogger support forums do not have a great amount of information on how to embed a collection into a webpage.
I eventually figured it out and I will share how I managed to do it with you all so it will save you time trying to search through the Plogger support forums.
1. Make sure the page extension is a php page (will not work in html)
2. Add the following code into the 1st line of of the page:
< ?php
require('gallery/gallery.php');
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_level']=='collections' || $GLOBALS['plogger_level']=='collection' ) {
$GLOBALS['plogger_level'] = 'album';
$GLOBALS['plogger_id'] = 9; // Enter the id# of the album here
}
plogger_init();
?>
3. Add the following code into your head tag:
< ?php the_gallery_head(); ?>
4. Add the following code where you you would like to album to display:
< ?php the_gallery(); ?>
That`s it, your album should now show in your webpage, make sure you set the correct album id to show your specific album.
One last thing, due to the formatting of WordPress, when I was writing this tutorial make sure you remove the space in-between < ? to <?
In recent months you may have heard the Buzzword “Growth Hacker” being thrown around in various marketing and business community hubs. With the mention of the word “Hacker” it may put the wind up some people.