I've been searching through the forums and haven't found my problem. I've just finished my website in VSD, www.woodbridgerenovations.com, I'm using godaddy's Site Optimization tools and it seems that as it spiders the site, it references my home page and index.html as the same. Are they the same? Is it OK to delete the index.html file. Some of the errors it's giving me are two pages with the same name etc.

Another issue I'm running across is I built the buttons using the CC Menu builder, are there known issues with the search engines being able to read them. Again Godaddy is citing Navigation Issues and I'm wondering how much work to put into fixing these problems, or to just let them go.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jason,

Your home page is your index.html page. Without actually seeing what GoDaddy is reporting, it is difficult to know why it is reporting the way it does.

Which menu builder are you using? I don't know that it makes a lot of difference, but there are two different menu builders. The Flash Menu Builder produces a flash file that Google may be able to read, but reading flash may not be all that easy. The DHTML Menu Builder produces a JavaScript file that is generally unreadable as well.

If you want a spider to locate everything on your site, you should have anchors on your site. One way might be to include the anchor links as a footer on your site.

Something you can do that will help is make a change to this code that is on your page:

Remove the / at the end of that code and you may help GoDaddy. It will likely help some browsers such as Firefox that is closer to standards compliant than IE. That bit of code is valid for XHTML but your site is HTML and that end / is not valid for HTML.

Thanks Bill,

I am using the flash builder. Would I add the code to every page?


And when you say footer. I don't recall seeing a footer section in the HTML code Box. Do I just place it at the bottom of the screen. I've been wondering about that as I have seen the footer section referenced in other posts.

Jason,

There are different ways to get around the issue of Flash not being able to be spidered.

One is to create a set of links and place them at the bottom of every page on your site, and this set of links is in what is generally called a footer since it is the bottom part of the document.

Another is to create a sitemap and provide the xml file to Google. One way to create the site map is to use the CoffeeCup Sitemap program.

I found that code, and removed the last /. It was in the Edit Header under the Edit tab.

Bill R.

I had to buckle down and make a buttload of text links. It was one thing my site was missing. After lining them all up at the bottom.. trying to eyeball it and make it look centered It looked alot more professional.

After that I used the CC sitemap maker and then submitted the xml file to google as per the easy instructions.

After that.. I copied and pasted the links to all my pages.. since I really don't want to screw with CSS at the moment.

I felt so good.. I even added a RSS feeder to two pages just cause it was to spite any work involved with CSS.

Then I scrolled down to this message ..and felt glad that your suggestion matched what I just fricken did..

JR,

Yes, it feels good when things work the way we want them to work.