A long time ago I mentioned my task of rewriting my Rapidweaver site in Freeway Pro. At long last, I’ve got around to a front/splash page. I have made a large Graphic in the front page point to the existing site, and it works when previewed in browser. Trouble is, it has its own index.html file which at the moment (I think) will clash with the existing index.html file on the existing site. I want to upload the front page and have it load the existing site. I am only allowed one site. Any tips please.
before I try your suggestion, a thought, won’t every link bank to the ‘home page’, ie with href to index.html, take me to my splash instead of my home page. I could find and replace all refs to index.html, with indexb.html, but with Rapidweaver there are proprietary files that I dare not mess about with. I think I will stick with the external splash page, just in case. Thanks a lot for your input.
In this case, all you need to do is have your domain name point to the splash page, which you can call index_b, then have that re-direct/link to your normal site. This way, when someone goes to http://own-a-slice-of-wales.co.uk/ they will always end up on your splash page.
What might be better, if Bob would like a little Welsh imagery, is to start with a page that has his image … with no buttons or anything (but with some SEO text) then to use the Timed Redirect action to go to the main pages after say 3 or 4 seconds. He gets his splash and his SEO and doesn’t have to worry about which index file to use.
Timed redirects are a huge no-no for SEO, since the search engines do not run Meta-refresh or JavaScript redirects. You would be entirely stuck with whatever was on the splash page, unless it basically duplicated all the links present on your home page – and then you’re right back to where you were just landing on the home page.
Walter
On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:22 PM, grantsymon wrote:
Good point.
What might be better, if Bob would like a little Welsh imagery, is to start with a page that has his image … with no buttons or anything (but with some SEO text) then to use the Timed Redirect action to go to the main pages after say 3 or 4 seconds. He gets his splash and his SEO and doesn’t have to worry about which index file to use.
I seem, on reflection to have been wasting my time --David and Walter’s point about lack of SEO searchable items with what is essentially 100% graphics, is VERY justified.
With my existing site, a search on Google for ‘own a slice of wales’ puts my site, and its sections, top, and I don’t want to jeopardize that.
When I was Senior Patents Examiner and assisting Appeals Boards, there was lots of talk about ‘Form’ verses ‘Content’ in Patent claims, search-wise, and like SEOs the ‘Content’ was deemed much more important than fancy ‘Forms’…
Back to the drawing board, but that’s how one learns.
Right. The search engine “clicks” that link (follows it, really) and finds the real home page. But it’s a dangerous game they play with their rankings. If they have interstitial ads on all their pages, I would imagine their SEO mojo would plummet. Odds are that they have lots of pages and vanishingly few interstitials by comparison.
I don’t believe that Google or any other major bot follows a meta-refresh and I know for a fact they don’t run JavaScript (although they do sniff for it and try to identify sites that use it to alter their rankings by manipulating the apparent content of the site).
Walter
On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:01 PM, grantsymon wrote:
So all those sites with ads and a button saying ‘skip this ad’ get around the SEO issue, by making you click a link?
What about internal pages with a timed redirect? If the splash makes you click, then you go to a timed redirect. (My site).
