Why doesnt my website open to the homepage?

rhino1616 · #1 11-Aug-2003, 14:25

Good day,

I'm a website rookie & I think I made a small mistake (hopefully small) in designing a website with FrontPage2000. Once I uploaded the finished website, I noticed that when you search for the website with google, yahoo or whatever engine you use & type the websites name in the search engines parameters: "United Distributors of Canada"
The links it returns are incorrect. When you click on the link it takes you to the: "about" section of the website instead of the index page

IE: http://www.uniteddistributors.ca/aboutus.htm

I would like it to go directly to:

IE: http://www.uniteddistributors.ca

have I done something wrong in Frontpage2000, and can i fix it?

jrobbio · #2 11-Aug-2003, 14:58

Google doesn't index redirects and your forwarding to the aboutus page straight away. If you want http://www.uniteddistributors.ca/ to appear, then I suggest you create an index.html page, which doesn't redirect.

Rob

rhino1616 · #3 11-Aug-2003, 15:15

I have created an index.html page which I labeled as the homepage, but Im not sure what you mean "iindex redirects and your forwarding to the aboutus page straight away"?

Thanks

jrobbio · #4 11-Aug-2003, 15:30

The index.html page and aboutus.htm page look exactly the same. In the side menu, HOME points to aboutus.htm so I thought there must be some sort of redirect. Oh and Google discounts pages that look exactly the same indexing only one of them.

If you type in allinurl:www.uniteddistributors.ca you'll see what pages you have indexed in Google.

Rob

rhino1616 · #5 11-Aug-2003, 15:36

Thanks jrobbio, I'll look into it.

BobbyDouglas · #6 12-Aug-2003, 00:02

Log into your Control Panel, if you have one. Else look for a script on your server named. postinfo.html

Click the edit button in your Control Panel. Or Download the file, and edit it in notepad.

Look for this:

version="0.100"
BaseUrl="http://yourdomain.com"
XferType="FrontPage"
DefaultPage="index.php"
FPShtmlScriptUrl="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc"
FPAuthorScriptUrl="_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe"
FPAdminScriptUrl="_vti_bin/_vti_adm/admin.exe"

Where it says DefaultPage="index.php"
Change the index.php to whatever page you want your "homepage" to be set as.

Lemme know how it goes.

JdS · #7 12-Aug-2003, 06:55

When Googlebot visits your homepage this is what it's seeing:

HTML Code:


<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>United Distributors of Canada Home Page</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
</head>

<frameset rows="113,65%,*" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0">
  <frame name="top" scrolling="no" noresize target="middle" src="banner.htm">
  <frame name="middle" target="bottom" src="aboutus.htm" scrolling="auto">
  <frame name="bottom" src="footer.htm" target="_self" scrolling="no">
  <noframes>
  <body topmargin="0">

  <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>

  </body>
  </noframes>
</frameset>

</html>

Not much is it?

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