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Website Do's Don'ts, Never Do this to your site!

 

 

Website Design Do's Don'ts, Never Do this to your site!

 

If your site has been around for a while, or you are looking to make a new site, never do this... Never change the file name that is currently on your site.
Somewhere, some place, some time around the web, around the world, someone will have read an older page. This page is probably listed somewhere.

If you later rename or even worse, delete the page, it will create an ERROR 404 message. This is bad.

What is a 404 message?

This message is when the browser pings your site for a page retrieval and receives no corresponding page or loading information. The browser then returns a blank page not from your site with words like. Page Not Found. This is very detrimental to your overall site. Any time a person can not access your page, your rank and online time is affected.

Dont keep old content, re write the page with modern, relevant texts, pictures etc.
But dont delete the page.

If you are redesigning the entire site, update the page with your new website designs and keep the same file extension and file name. Example. If your old page is listed under a folder that is very badly named, and the file itself is also badly named, e.g. root/My Best Folder/My%20Page%20is%20OLD.htm it is still better to rework the viewable page to you new design. NEVER rename or delete. Some one has it stored in their cache or search engine or link inside a forum.

 

Remove the old content, update to a new CSS skinable design, add the latest xhtml coding or whatever you intend to do, but NEVER remove the old page filename.

 

Why?

Keeping your site modern If your site has gone under a new development or theme, you can always redesign the site including older out of date content pages. And/or, leave the page as is. The Search engines will find those older pages and place no importance on them. In this way, should you later find time to redevelop your older web pages, It is listed, linked, stored and created ready for editing.

We have also earlier made this critical mistake when redesigning sites in the past and have paid dearly for the error. A removed page will quickly incur an Error 404 message and lower your overall ranking very quickly. TIPS: A poorly named page that exists is better than a new page that doesn't yet have a page rank. Make new fresh content is the rule on an older page.

A quick way to update an older page. You can do this to update an older page without renaming or deleting the page.

A: Create a new page with new content. Then using a text editor such as Notepad, cut and paste the source code of the new design into Notepad.
Then, Select all and paste this into the code view of your old page. Save and upload to the web server.

This will make your new design and new content without losing the file name.

B: Create a new page and Save As the same name. Remember, when you overwrite the page, the old hyperlinks will be broken.

To find old pages, look at your web directory. Look at the dates modified. If longer than 6 months, open the page in the browser to check if the file is working correctly.

New content must be made every 8 months, let the search engines revisit existing pages to gain a TOP 10 Web Site.
 

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Summary

If you delete pages from your web server, someone will get an Error 404 message.

 

New content must be made every 8 months, let the search engines revisit existing pages to gain a TOP 10 Web Site.

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