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Re: The Board
Posted: 14 May 2010 19:21
by SandChigger
Omph, dude, you really need to rehost this on T(A)U or here on Jacurutu:
It takes fucking forever to load any thread you've posted in now.
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 14 May 2010 21:16
by SandRider
Welcome. Your Water is Ours.
>> Freak -
time to get around to changing the tag line that shows up in Google searches ...
the fucking SyFy board with TEN FUCKING POSTS is still number two behind Merritt,
and the dune buggy forum is apparently huge and probably, in a fair contest, would
be number one ...
anyway, need to get OH, or "most active Dune board" or something in the
search results instead of "General Dune Discussion Can't find the appropriate forum for your topic? Post it here! "
FED2K is ahead of us ... this is BULLSHIT and cannot stand ...
Re: The Board
Posted: 14 May 2010 21:50
by Omphalos
Sorry. Will do this weekend.
Re: The Board
Posted: 14 May 2010 22:52
by SandChigger
Sorry, normally it wouldn't be a problem after the first load or so, but for some reason his banners don't want to cache or something.
(I can generally tell when he's posted in a thread on T(A)U from whether the page loads or not.
)
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 16:05
by Freakzilla
SandRider wrote:
>> Freak -
time to get around to changing the tag line that shows up in Google searches ...
the fucking SyFy board with TEN FUCKING POSTS is still number two behind Merritt,
and the dune buggy forum is apparently huge and probably, in a fair contest, would
be number one ...
anyway, need to get OH, or "most active Dune board" or something in the
search results instead of "General Dune Discussion Can't find the appropriate forum for your topic? Post it here! "
FED2K is ahead of us ... this is BULLSHIT and cannot stand ...
OK, how?
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 20:45
by SandRider
what, change the text that shows up in the search results or bump up the ranking ?
the first, I'd suppose you'd search for the text that shows up, figger out where it is, change it ...
the second, the only way I've read about that bumps up Google rankings is to have a site
linked to from other sites - and in the site itself, too; posting links in comments doesn't do it ...
I guess the googlebot trawls and scoops up links and tallies it - so like, there's a link to here
on the ChiggerBlahg and where else ? you need a link on big-ass sites, SyFy or even IO9 ...
major corporate sites - a link from Merrit's board to here would boost the ranking, if you can
believe that ....
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 21:03
by A Thing of Eternity
I've mentioned this before, but I could talk with the guy who runs the website/webstore for the company I work for and get some tips for ranking higher in search engines. He knows what he's doing, we rank higher on google than some of the brands own websites when you type in that brand, and even if not, we're always the first retailer that comes up in the list.
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 21:08
by SandChigger
Another thing is to get Ragaboo to edit the board templates and fill in these:
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<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
Keywords: Dune, Dune novels, Frank Herbert, (what else?)
Description: The only truly active and uncensored forum for Dune discussion currently online!
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 21:10
by A Thing of Eternity
SandChigger wrote:Another thing is to get Ragaboo to edit the board templates and fill in these:
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<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
Keywords: Dune, Dune novels, Frank Herbert, (what else?)
Description: The only truly active and uncensored forum for Dune discussion currently online!
Forum should be a key word also?
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 21:15
by Freakzilla
Jacurutu - The Cast Out • Index page
General Dune Discussion Can't find the appropriate forum for your topic? Post it here!
Moderators: Omphalos, Freakzilla: 259 Topics: 11648 Posts: Last post ...
It's the name and description of the "General Dune Discussion Forum". It's half way down the page but I guess the words "Dune" and "Discussion" set it off?
Maybe I should try changing the forum description at the top of the page to "Dune
Discussion Forum for Orthodox Herbertarians"?
Re: Hearty greetings to the Cast Out!
Posted: 15 May 2010 21:25
by Freakzilla
A Thing of Eternity wrote:SandChigger wrote:Another thing is to get Ragaboo to edit the board templates and fill in these:
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<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
Keywords: Dune, Dune novels, Frank Herbert, (what else?)
Description: The only truly active and uncensored forum for Dune discussion currently online!
Forum should be a key word also?
I'll email him and ask him to do it.
I added "Dune Discussion Forum, Dune Message Board" to the keywords.
I don't like that description though, it's kind of negative or something. How about...
"The most active and open forum for discussion of Frank Herbert's Dune novels online!"?
Re: The Board
Posted: 15 May 2010 22:36
by Freakzilla
I'll wait until morning (EST) to send it in case anyone has any other good suggestions for keywords or the description.
Re: The Board
Posted: 15 May 2010 22:42
by Nekhrun
Freakzilla wrote:I'll wait until morning (EST) to send it in case anyone has any other good suggestions for keywords or the description.
I'd suggest using a number of FH terms like: Bene Gesserit, Fremen, Melange, Dune, Arrakis, etc. Maybe we could include the link in @thekja and @dunenovels posts on Twitter and see if his followers can find their way over
Re: The Board
Posted: 15 May 2010 23:36
by Freakzilla
I don't know nothin' 'bout no Twitter links.
But this is what I've got so far:
Keywords: Dune, Dune Novels, Frank Herbert, Dune Discussion Forum, Dune Message Board, Arrakis, Desert, Spice, Melange, Fremen, Sandworm, Crysknife, Sietch, Atreides, Harkonnen, Emperor, Guild, Landsraad, Bene Gesserit,
Description: The most active and open forum for discussion of Frank Herbert's Dune novels online!
Re: The Board
Posted: 15 May 2010 23:55
by SandChigger
It looks like there are two files to edit:
simple_header.html and
overall_header.html
In the prosilver theme/style these are located inside the
template directory, so I assume that's the same for all of them.
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 00:07
by Freakzilla
SandChigger wrote:It looks like there are two files to edit:
simple_header.html and
overall_header.html
In the prosilver theme/style these are located inside the
template directory, so I assume that's the same for all of them.
Thanks, I'll include those filenames.
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 08:13
by Freakzilla
Anyone notice the description for Dunenovels?
Forum - dunenovels.com :: Index
This forum is for those message board users who prefer to speak of Frank Herbert's classic
Dune series only and wish not to discuss the prequels. ...
forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/ - 22 hours ago - Cached - Similar
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 09:21
by Freakzilla
I just read that Google ignores the Meta Keyword tag.
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 11:19
by DuneFishUK
Freakzilla wrote:I just read that Google ignores the Meta Keyword tag.
That is true. Description tags still work though, and would neaten up the result, plus a few meta keywords can't hurt if you have the file open anyway
(Google mainly focusses on actual content, and we have plenty of that
)
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 11:25
by SandChigger
Cockblocked by the Fish!
Yeah, well fuck Google all the way to hell and back anyway.
But the description meta tag is still worth filling in, it seems.
Which explains this:
HAIRY TICKS OF DUNE
The new Dune books are crap and Kevin J. Anderson is a hack.
http://www.hairyticksofdune.net/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - Cached - Similar
That's funny, though, because it means all that time that they had KJA's name twice in the DN keywords (before Frank or Brian Herbert's names) and even Wordfire listed, it really didn't mean shit!
I just checked over there, and they don't have any meta tags except the bare minimum (charset). But they do have all this shit:
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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/themes/dune/styles/framework/reset.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/themes/dune/styles/framework/text.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/themes/dune/styles/framework/960.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/themes/dune/styles/framework/debug.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/acquia/cck/theme/content-module.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/acquia/date/date.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/acquia/filefield/filefield.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/acquia/lightbox2/css/lightbox.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/aggregator/aggregator.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/node/node.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/defaults.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/system.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/system-menus.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/user/user.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/modules/ctools/css/ctools.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/modules/nice_menus/nice_menus.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/modules/nice_menus/nice_menus_default.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/modules/panels/css/panels.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/modules/tagadelic/tagadelic.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/acquia/cck/modules/fieldgroup/fieldgroup.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/all/themes/dune/styles/styles.css?U" />
All that shit has to load before the page displays. NO WONDER the fucking site takes goddamned FOREVER to load! FUCKING IDIOTS, APPEARANCE OVER REALITY was it, Ralph Corrino?!
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 11:45
by DuneFishUK
"Nice menus" eh? WTF is all of that?
SandChigger wrote:HAIRY TICKS OF DUNE
The new Dune books are crap and Kevin J. Anderson is a hack.
http://www.hairyticksofdune.net/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - Cached - Similar
That makes me laugh every time I see it.
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 19:28
by SandChigger
What CMS is it they're using? Drupal?
Yeah, "Drupal" appears in the source code of the front page. Never bothered looking into it. Nekhrun, you're more into this stuff. Whatcha know about Drupal?
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 20:27
by Nekhrun
SandChigger wrote:
What CMS is it they're using? Drupal?
Yeah, "Drupal" appears in the source code of the front page. Never bothered looking into it. Nekhrun, you're more into this stuff. Whatcha know about Drupal?
It's Drupal. I know enough about it to say that they've fucked it up and that there would be better ways to set up that site. It's awful. Other Drupal sites I visit load at least 3 times faster for me on a broadband connection. Even Chrome takes awhile to load DN.
You know me though Chig, I'm more of a Moodle guy
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 22:25
by Omphalos
SandChigger wrote:Omph, dude, you really need to rehost this on T(A)U or here on Jacurutu:
It takes fucking forever to load any thread you've posted in now.
How's that, my bug?
Re: The Board
Posted: 16 May 2010 23:13
by SandChigger
Have to tell you later.
(On a fast connection now.
)