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5/25/2010 4:07:10 PM
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Search Engine Optimization

Hi everyone

I've just created www.libriegiochi.it using mojo and redirected using 301 perennial redirecting my index.asp to mojoportal, but I was unable to see my site on google, even after having submitted my sitemap, set keywords on home page and written my google account for API (I'm using the tiny editor). Asked google they answer back :

"webado has posted an answer to the question "I've submitted my sitemap (www.libriegiochi.it) but my site isn't indexed yet . How long does it take ?":
The first 301 redirection has to be amended to redirect to http://www.libriegiochi.it/mojoportal/ (with trailing slash). You have left that out and so the server does a second 301 redirection automatically in order to append the trailing slash.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libriegiochi.it%2Fmojoportal%2F  "

AND I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THAT
 


The pages have an incomplete doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
You should replace those 2 tags with:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

I'M QUITE CONFUSED...I'M NOT ABLE TO SEE HTML PAGES WITH Tiny EDITOR. WHAT I HAVE TO DO IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THAT ?  

Thank in advance

5/27/2010 9:38:49 AM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Hi,

mojoPortal is not an editor for html files, content comes from the database and skeleton markup such as the DocType come from the layout.master file of the skin, so you could change the DocType there if you want.

The w3c validation error you got about invalid script is caused by the defer attribute which should only be used with external javascript files. This was a minor bug in a previous version of mojoPortal but was fixed quite a while back so you must have an older version of mojoPortal installed. Changing the DocType will not fix that but upgrading to a newer version of mojoPortal will fix it.

I think you made a bad choice to install mojoportal in a sub folder named mojoportal and redirect to it. You should have installed it in the root of the site. Even if you have an old classic asp site running in the root, you should be able to install mojoportal on top of it, there is not likely to be any file collisions. Then you would just redirect from index.asp to Default.aspx and add Default.aspx as a default document with a higher priority than index.asp

I also think you are confused about how to get google to index your site. It has nothing to do with any API key, that is only for google analytics which is useful for you to track site traffic but has no affect on google indexing your site. 

To get google to index your site you need to submit your site map(s) to google webmaster tools as described here:

http://www.mojoportal.com/search-engine-optimization.aspx

but if it were me I would not do that until after you move the site to the root. Having mojoportal as part of your url is not as good for SEO as it would be if you run as a root web site.

Hope it helps,

Joe

5/28/2010 2:39:04 AM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Thank you for your readiness, Joe, I'm astonished...

I'm a newbie, just using tools on aruba (Italian provider) for Mojo (article is in Italian) :

http://www.onecms.it/25/02/2010/rilasciato-mojoportal-2339/

Version available with Aruba should be 2.3.3.9, however I'm checking directly with them

Is that version stable and updated enough to fix my problems ? Anyway I'm going to rename my root, the folder mojo was created directly from Aruba using the tool

5/28/2010 7:40:09 AM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Hi,

2.3.3.9 should be fine, it is a fairly recent release.

You can find out what version you have installed by looking under Administration > System Information

Hope it helps,

Joe

6/3/2010 2:22:00 PM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Hi Joe

Version of Mojo is 2.3.3.9, and I have moved the site to the root, my main page with higher priority is deafult.aspx. After that I have submitted my sitemap.xml file to google webmaster tools for www.libriegiochi.it :

- <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/sitemap.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/searchresults.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/register.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/login.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/default.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/home.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/default.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/sitemap.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/help.aspx?helpkey=search-help</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/searchresults.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/secure/register.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/secure/pagenotfound.aspx?skin=printerfriendly&amp;c=en-us</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/recoverpassword.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/secure/login.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/home.aspx</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/secure/recoverpassword.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/secure/pagenotfound.aspx?skin=printerfriendly&amp;c=en-us</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/home.aspx?skin=printerfriendly</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.libriegiochi.it/</loc>
<lastmod>2010-06-02</lastmod>
</url>

but nothing happens, my site isn't indexed yet, and when I look at the crawling errors it looks that crawler can't find pages under mojoportal folders, that doesn't exist any more !  I'm quite in trouble, I have submitted my sitemap but I'm not succesful in showing google my site, even in the bottom position of search egine !

Thank

Davide

6/4/2010 6:19:55 AM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Hi,

Looks like you have manually created an xml file and the pages you list are not pages that are helpful for search engines, you don't need them to crawl login and registration pages or help files and I have no idea why you would use skin=printerfriendly. You are making it harder than it really is, you don't need to create any xml files.

If you understand the documentation about search engine optimization, you would know that you do not have to create an xml file manually, you simply submit the url for the built in google site maps that mojoportal generates for you to google webmaster tools. 

http://www.libriegiochi.it/SiteMap.ashx

http://www.libriegiochi.it/Blog/BlogSiteMap.ashx (only submit this if you are using the blog feature)

Hope it helps,

Joe

6/4/2010 11:36:24 AM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Well

just submitted sitemap.ashx

let see what happens...Davide

6/16/2010 3:13:47 AM
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Re: Search Engine Optimization

Hi Joe

It works !!

That's great, finally google cached my site and now is visible on the search engine.

I know that's just the first step, but finally my site is visible online.

Thanks for your support !

Davide

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