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View Full Version : Need Geocities Pagebuilder help tnplh2002 03-27-2003, 09:41 PM I signed up for the geocities business account and I'm using Pagebuilder. I have inserted some HTML meta tags using pagebuilder however when I "view source" they appear to be placed at the mid-bottom of my page. Is there a trick to getting them at the top. Do you have any other tricks to promote my site? I would like to have all this squared away before my inventory comes in this weekend! Thanks for your help! Christy Xiphias 03-27-2003, 11:22 PM I'm pretty sure page-builder will add all tags where it wants and that is after whatever they want in the body. indianbean 03-28-2003, 01:12 AM Can you edit the html manually and cut and paste the meta tags back up near the top? tnplh2002 03-28-2003, 01:25 AM to HTML....So, since I'm not that educated w/ HTML...this is a problem for me. I tried that last night and had to rebuild my whole page through pagebuilder. indianbean 03-28-2003, 01:51 AM I'm not too educated in it either but if its that page on your "www" button I cut the meta tags and pasted them back up to the top. I'll paste all the code below. Also have you considered not using Pagebuilder for this and just uploading the .html file? I don't know how Yahoo and Pagebuilder work maybe its not possible. If you'd like, in Notepad, I could make it an .html file and send it to you. Here is the code... <html> <head> <title>index</title> <meta name="generator" content="Created Using Yahoo! PageBuilder 2.61.76"> <!-- meta tag description --> <meta name="description" content="A baby boutique dedicated to bring you quality children's and baby's clothing along with infant bedding and other gift ideas"> <!-- meta tag keywords --> <META NAME= "keywords" content="baby clothes, baby clothing, boutique, layette, Nannette, baby paris, good lad, vitamins, petite ami, baby boutique, infant, apparel, toddler, easter, christmas, costume, pageant, boys, girls, shop, shoppe, store, christening, baptism, gifts, gift, bedding, sheets, blankies, lovies, blankys, loveys"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" text="#000000" > <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=606> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td><img src="http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif" height=1 width=1></td> <td><img src="http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif" height=1 width=3></td> <td><img src="http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif" height=1 width=1></td> <td><img src="http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif" height=1 width=1></td> <i>I had to cut the text short it was too long for the forum</i> :) tedley 03-28-2003, 03:10 AM I've had similar problems trying to move a page I made using Pagebuilder to another host I have. It's been awhile since I looked into the Meta stuff, but as I remember the rules that people beleive you need to follow for it to be effective vary depending on who you're asking(I forget which protocol I chose to beleive). I did copy your code from the index.html page on your site, and moved it to my own and tweaked it around a little hoping I could be of some help. I saw how your meta infomation had become strewn out across your page, even way down in the body section inside of table tags. -->> I copied your meta info and returned it to the head section -->> I left the tables intact, with nothing in them where your meta info had been -->> I removed the pagebuilders info and it's automatic meta info from the head -->> On my geocities acount I clicked on 'File Manager', then 'Open File Manager', then 'NEW'... Then I erased the tags on my new blank html page... so it truely was blank and pasted in your code, named the new file 'scarlet_ribbon.html' and clicked "SAVE". It seems to look about the same. You can veiw it here: http://www.geocities.com/hangfivefred/scarlet_ribbon.html Veiw "source" on my sites version of your page to look at the code, and try to ignore anything that they may have added in there, like the part for the ad they put on my site. If you do do this, try it first by naming it indextest.html, and don't try to edit that file using pagebuilder, as a matter of fact, close pagebuilder before opening that file, access it from filemanager only. Hope I helped a little!! tnplh2002 03-28-2003, 11:33 AM It looks like it's going to work! I'm gonna grab some breakfast and get to work! Thanks so much! I'll let you know how it works out for me! I'm so excited! Christy tnplh2002 03-28-2003, 12:02 PM If I edit the html of any page that I originaly built in pagebuilder, it won't ever let me use pagebuilder again for that page. So, I'm sort of bummed about that. I'm not well read on HTML, nor do I have the time right now to educate myself on it. ugh! lol. BUT I do have meta tags at the beginning of my document now! hummm Does anyone know if it's immediate that the search engines are able to grab my information...or does it take a few days or weeks to index? Do you know if there are other ways to get more traffic? I heard that linking works...can the links be on any page or do they have to be on your index page? Thanks! Christy Dude128 03-29-2003, 05:27 PM some (a lot of) search engines require you to manually submit your site for it to be indexed. other search engines (including google, which means yahoo and AOL, also, since they both use google results) periodically crawl the internet. so that may take weeks or months to happen. |