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From: cyandle (cyandle(at)top-10.com)
Subject: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Newsgroups: google.public.support.general
Date: 2003-03-27 07:43:31 PST
 

I have a client whose site is in Google's index but when you go to
view the cached copy the page is blank.  I read in Google's Fact &
Fiction section that tells you what they can index.  It says, "File
types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml,
cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri."

Their site is in frames and it is an .html file but the frameset calls
pages that have .tpl extensions.  Does this effect their rankings?

Thanks!

cyandle(at)top-10.com

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From: patrick deese (search(at)electrondesign.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-03-27 18:25:22 PST
 

cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0303270743.4e36f6b8(at)posting.google.com>...
> I have a client whose site is in Google's index but when you go to
> view the cached copy the page is blank.  I read in Google's Fact &
> Fiction section that tells you what they can index.  It says, "File
> types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml,
> cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri."
> 
> Their site is in frames and it is an .html file but the frameset calls
> pages that have .tpl extensions.  Does this effect their rankings?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> cyandle(at)top-10.com

Post......the....URL...

kind regards -

patrick deese

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From: cyandle (cyandle(at)top-10.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-03-28 06:28:13 PST
 

the url is www. caviarchef .com

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From: Ash Nallawalla (anallawalla(at)hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-03-27 20:54:36 PST
 

cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0303270743.4e36f6b8(at)posting.google.com>...

> Their site is in frames and it is an .html file but the frameset calls
> pages that have .tpl extensions.  Does this effect their rankings?

Google has .tpl files indexed, e.g.
http://gbdioc.thinksite.com/pg/city.tpl

It's only going to affect the placement if the pages are linked from
the noframes part of index.htm.  If not, the pages are not known to
googlebot hence nothing to cache.

- Ash
http://crm911.com

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From: cyandle (cyandle(at)top-10.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-08 05:57:14 PST
 

What do you mean?  The frameset already calls the tpl pages.  Google
has reindexed and it still didn't cache those pages.  I didn't design
the site so I am not familiar with tpl pages.

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From: Richard L. Trethewey (rainborick(at)yahoo.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-08 14:13:38 PST
 

cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0304080457.1ec0d5c4(at)posting.google.com>...
> What do you mean?  The frameset already calls the tpl pages.  Google
> has reindexed and it still didn't cache those pages.  I didn't design
> the site so I am not familiar with tpl pages.

Google can index any page that is rendered for the client user agent
as HTML.  The actual filename extension isn't a factor.  It's how the
server sends the data. So even though these ".tpl" pages are being
dynamically generated, the server identifies it to the user as
"text/html" and that's how Google classifies it.

Google is sending the site's main page contents from its cache, but
the page doesn't render within Google's structure for the display of
their cached version.  Its not really surprising in a way, since the
page ends up with multiple <html>, <body>, and other key tags.  Its
one of the many prices you pay for frames.

Google staff rarely participate in these groups.  For more
information, you should probably consult with a search engine
optimization company.  Yes, I couldn't help taking the cheap shot, but
this is pretty basic stuff here that applies generally to all search
engines in one way or another.  If you work for www.top-10.com, you
should know this stuff already or the company is a disgrace.

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From: patrick deese (search(at)electrondesign.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-08 19:40:31 PST
 

rainborick(at)yahoo.com (Richard L. Trethewey) wrote in message news:<e641dd3.0304081313.1c502062(at)posting.google.com>...
> cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0304080457.1ec0d5c4(at)posting.google.com>... 
> Google staff rarely participate in these groups.  For more
> information, you should probably consult with a search engine
> optimization company.  Yes, I couldn't help taking the cheap shot, but
> this is pretty basic stuff here that applies generally to all search
> engines in one way or another.  If you work for www.top-10.com, you
> should know this stuff already or the company is a disgrace.

I sell SEO services, so please take this commentary as biased, if you
must.

I found it fairly amusing that top 10 is currently banned by google.

Also found this little gem on their services page:

http://www. top-10 .com/our.html

"Once you provide us with keywords relevant to your site, we query the
search engines for the top pages for each keyword. Our proprietary
PageAnalyze™ technology then determines what characteristics the pages
have in common and does a statistical analysis of the word frequencies
on each page. Using this information, we then create new pages for
your site that take the best characteristics from the related pages
that we found, and upload these pages to your site. Finally, we create
a special web site that causes all of the search engines we target to
visit and index the special pages we made for you, giving you the best
possible rankings."

Basically they are saying that they make doorway pages on your site to
trick search engines into liking you. Then they put your site on their
link farm and bill you.

However, if anyone selling you SEO say that they do this; run away,
run very very far away from them, and never look back.

Install the Google toolbar, and look at their site. Their own
techniques have banned them.

kind regards -

patrick deese
www.electrondesign.com

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From: cyandle (cyandle(at)top-10.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Newsgroups: google.public.support.general
Date: 2003-04-09 06:50:05 PST
 

We haven't been banned nor have any of our clients.  We simply fell
out of the index due to our main designer always overwriting our
optimization as well as the site staying unoptimized for over a year. 
We have actually spoke with Google about this and it was verified that
we were not banned.  We just resubmitted last week and we should get
back in their index.  Thanks for everyone's help with this issue as it
has helped greatly.

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Message 9 in thread

From: patrick deese (search(at)electrondesign.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-09 20:08:30 PST
 

cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0304090550.7657792(at)posting.google.com>...
> We haven't been banned nor have any of our clients.  We simply fell
> out of the index due to our main designer always overwriting our
> optimization as well as the site staying unoptimized for over a year. 
> We have actually spoke with Google about this and it was verified that
> we were not banned.  We just resubmitted last week and we should get
> back in their index.

"Overwriting our optimization"?

I think that is called S P A M M I N G.

How about these other sites owned/managed by your company:
http://www. rtchosting .com/ (PR 0), http://www. rtcclick .com/ (PR 0),
http://www. pcbeacon .com/ (PR 0) [this must be your link farm, right?],
http://www. rfqhosting .com/ (PR 0), http://www. rtchomes .com/ (PR 0),
http://www.rtcsearch.com/ (PR 0) [actually a mirror/redirect of
pcbeacon, isn't it?], and http://www.roanoketechnology.com/ (PR 0).

Actually the only one with a semi decent PR is www.rtcstorebuilder.com
has PR 5, and I have already figured out that you have a little farm
up on the sites. rtcstorebuilder .com subdomain.

just google: site:sites. rtcstorebuilder .com +com.

I know, your main designer must have "overwritten the optimization"
for these sites too.

Oh, and let me guess, someone emailed google and got this email back:

"Thanks for writing to Google.

We read all of the email we receive and try to send personal responses
to each message.

This note is just to let you know that we've received your letter, and
you'll hear from us soon.  We appreciate your taking the time to
contact us.

Thank you for using Google. 

Regards, 
The Google Team"

And then....

"Occasionally sites are removed from our index, feel free to submit
them again."

I wish GoogleGuy was still posting here, I would *love* to know if
your site was banned or not.

In the meantime, maybe you ought to *fire* your main designer. He GOT
YOUR SITES BANNED!

Feel free to mail me if you need a consultant to optimize
www.Top-10.com.

It needs work.

regards -

patrick deese
www.electrondesign.com

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From: cyandle (cyandle(at)top-10.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-10 14:18:53 PST
 

PageRank is not the only thing Google consisders when it indexes a
website.  It that was the case then
http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/nwoc/ (PR 3/10) would not be ranked
16th for comedians.  In fact, when you review their PageRank page it
tells you this...

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages
mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google
combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find
pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes
far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines
all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages
linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

Therefore, PageRank doesn't solely determine whether or not you have
been banned or justify you having high rankings for your keywords.  As
far as those websites that you mentioned, PC Beacon is no longer owned
by our company, RTC Storebuilder is NOT a link farm.  The sites you
see when you google site:sites. rtcstorebuilder .com +com are actual
sites built in RTC Storebuilder.  That is how the software creates
those exact websites.  RTC Homes is no longer used nor promoted.  The
other websites are infact inhouse websites that have never been
promoted at all as they are new startups for the company.  Due to your
unprofessionalism with this thread I cannot and will not consider your
opinion of any value nor should anyone else reading this as you have
acted very unprofessional without exactly knowing what was actually
going on.

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From: Ash Nallawalla (anallawalla(at)hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-08 15:47:25 PST
 

cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0304080457.1ec0d5c4(at)posting.google.com>...
> What do you mean?  The frameset already calls the tpl pages.  Google
> has reindexed and it still didn't cache those pages.  I didn't design
> the site so I am not familiar with tpl pages.

I haven't gone back to see this site, but the point is that spiders
need the links in the NOFRAMES portion as well as the human-readable
links you have in the FRAMESET.  .tpl are template pages used by PHP. 
For this discussion they might as well be .htm.

Cached pages tend to be several weeks old and provided that googlebot
has been permitted to cache, you should see something in the cache
eventually.  I have not kept tabs on how many weeks, but it's been 3-4
months before I noticed my own pages in the cache.

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From: wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com (wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-10 13:31:47 PST
 

anallawalla(at)hotmail.com (Ash Nallawalla) wrote in message news:<b4254c41.0304081447.3e544a24(at)posting.google.com>...
> cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle) wrote in message news:<65b541d0.0304080457.1ec0d5c4(at)posting.google.com>...
> > What do you mean?  The frameset already calls the tpl pages.  Google
> > has reindexed and it still didn't cache those pages.  I didn't design
> > the site so I am not familiar with tpl pages.
> 
> I haven't gone back to see this site, but the point is that spiders
> need the links in the NOFRAMES portion as well as the human-readable
> links you have in the FRAMESET.  .tpl are template pages used by PHP. 
> For this discussion they might as well be .htm.
> 
> Cached pages tend to be several weeks old and provided that googlebot
> has been permitted to cache, you should see something in the cache
> eventually.  I have not kept tabs on how many weeks, but it's been 3-4
> months before I noticed my own pages in the cache.


In responce to patrick dreese, how funny of you to put in your two
cents worth of " I AM AN SEO COMPANY"  Dude if your an SEO company why
do you have such a crappy website ? What legitimate business is going
to send you any money when you post ON YOUR "SEO" website " patrick
turned 35...damn im old"  PROFESSIONAL PATRICK !!! That makes me as a
business owner want to send you my money. Look before you give
opinions on this board go out and write a website that ACTUALLY LOOKS
like a business site. OR STAY IN THE GEOCITIES THREAD FIELD. cause
thats where you belong...what a moron.

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From: Ash Nallawalla (anallawalla(at)hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Newsgroups: google.public.support.general
Date: 2003-04-11 05:41:42 PST
 

wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com wrote in message news:<83bc8007.0304101231.343d2d3(at)posting.google.com>...
 
> go out and write a website that ACTUALLY LOOKS
> like a business site. OR STAY IN THE GEOCITIES THREAD
> FIELD. cause thats where you belong...what a moron.

Find some other newsgroup to show your ignorance.

Awaiting Patrick's "responce" (sic) with glee.

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From: Ash Nallawalla (anallawalla(at)hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-11 05:44:36 PST
 

wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com wrote in message news:<83bc8007.0304101231.343d2d3(at)posting.google.com>...

> In responce to patrick dreese, how funny of you to put in your two
> cents worth of " I AM AN SEO COMPANY"  Dude if your an SEO company why
> do you have such a crappy website ? What legitimate business is going
> to send you any money when you post ON YOUR "SEO" website " patrick
> turned 35...damn im old"  PROFESSIONAL PATRICK !!! That makes me as a
> business owner want to send you my money. 

Dave,

If you must go to the extent of getting a new Hotmail account called
"WilsonCalifornia" (presumably far away from Roanoke Rapids, NC), then
at least use a different IP address!  Power down your cable modem and
fire it up again.  That should achieve a measure of protection next
time you are tempted to flame.

From: cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle)
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Date: 10 Apr 2003 14:18:53 -0700
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From: wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com
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Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
Date: 10 Apr 2003 13:31:47 -0700
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An interesting old post: http://snurl.com/1526

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From: patrick deese (search(at)electrondesign.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-11 10:26:17 PST
 

anallawalla(at)hotmail.com (Ash Nallawalla) wrote in message news:<b4254c41.0304110139.39f707f3(at)posting.google.com>...
> wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com wrote in message news:<83bc8007.0304101231.343d2d3(at)posting.google.com>...
> 
> > In responce to patrick dreese, how funny of you to put in your two
> > cents worth of " I AM AN SEO COMPANY"  Dude if your an SEO company why
> > do you have such a crappy website ? What legitimate business is going
> > to send you any money when you post ON YOUR "SEO" website " patrick
> > turned 35...damn im old"  PROFESSIONAL PATRICK !!! That makes me as a
> > business owner want to send you my money. 
> 
> Dave,
> 
> If you must go to the extent of getting a new Hotmail account called
> "WilsonCalifornia" (presumably far away from Roanoke Rapids, NC), then
> at least use a different IP address!  Power down your cable modem and
> fire it up again.  That should achieve a measure of protection next
> time you are tempted to flame.
> 
> From: cyandle(at)top-10.com (cyandle)
> Newsgroups: google.public.support.general
> Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
> Date: 10 Apr 2003 14:18:53 -0700
> Organization: http://groups.google.com/
> Lines: 28
> Message-ID: <65b541d0.0304101318.125ca80a(at)posting.google.com>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.148.80.131
> 
> From: wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com
> Newsgroups: google.public.support.general
> Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
> Date: 10 Apr 2003 13:31:47 -0700
> Organization: http://groups.google.com/
> Lines: 26
> Message-ID: <83bc8007.0304101231.343d2d3(at)posting.google.com>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.148.80.131
> 
> 
> An interesting old post: http://snurl.com/1526

LOL Ash. didn't even catch it.

Let me just close by saying that if you look in the "hiring section"
of Top-10, it brags about how their *sales* people make $65,000 in
commissions. This place is just cranking out any old SEO they can. I
am sure your company has helped a lot of people, because most times,
sites are created with "Untitled Document" as their title page.

And I was going to leave this alone, but if all those sites I
mentioned up in the thread don't have anything to do with your company
why are they linked on the homepage within a box labeled "find out
about our other services". How do you think I found out about them? I
certainly didn't hire a private investigator.

Finally, you seem to be confused as to what PR is. Page rank is your
cumulative score for incoming links, content etc. If your site is PR
0, and it has been in the "wild" for more than 3 months it means one
or a combination of the following:

1) you have no incoming links, and google has never indexed you.

- or -

2) your site is has been banned.

My "geocities" site is in the first page results for "website design"
at yahoo, and ~15 for the same at Google.

I couldn't find your site in Google. What search terms does yours show
up for?

Have a nice day. Give me your mailing address and I will send you a
packet of kleenex.

patrick deese
www.electrondesign.com

 

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Message 16 in thread

From: patrick deese (search(at)electrondesign.com)
Subject: Re: client's site not being cached...
 

 
 
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Date: 2003-04-11 10:03:08 PST
 

wilsoncalifornia(at)hotmail.com wrote in message news:<83bc8007.0304101231.343d2d3(at)posting.google.com>...
 
> In responce to patrick dreese, how funny of you to put in your two
> cents worth of " I AM AN SEO COMPANY"  Dude if your an SEO company why
> do you have such a crappy website ? What legitimate business is going
> to send you any money when you post ON YOUR "SEO" website " patrick
> turned 35...damn im old"  PROFESSIONAL PATRICK !!! That makes me as a
> business owner want to send you my money. Look before you give
> opinions on this board go out and write a website that ACTUALLY LOOKS
> like a business site. OR STAY IN THE GEOCITIES THREAD FIELD. cause
> thats where you belong...what a moron.

Thanks for your opinion. Everyone has one.

In fact I have gotten 3 clients this morning due to my crappy website.

I inject a lot of personality into my comments here and my website.
You know why? Because I have a personality. I happen to live in
Mexico, and because of this, I have to maintain a "long distance
relationship" with a lot of my clients. 7 of them I have never met in
my life.

I am actually a funny guy. I like to laugh and make people laugh. I
could make a corporate website that makes it look like I have offices
in the top floor of the Empire State Building, but why? I make
conservative "play it safe" sites all day long. Look through my
portfolio. At least with my own domain, www.electrondesign.com I get
to have a little fun and be irreverent. I've got electrondesign.com
tattooed on my back for crissakes. Does being irreverent cost me the
occasional client? Maybe. Do I care? No.

Anyhow, if you are impressed by a corporate looking website and then
they end up employing trailing edge spam techniques that give you page
rank zero, well, what good is that?

Maybe I am a fool and should redo my website and sell SEO to major
corporations for thousands of dollars, but I don't. I live in Mexico.
Do you know why I live in Mexico? I get to work for myself, and I can
afford to pick and choose my clients and tell uptight jerks to go to
hell.

I'll get right to work on that Geocities site. Thanks for putting me
in my place.

Have a nice day.

Patrick Deese
www.electrondesign.com

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