do you know how they do this. I have only just found the link and it seems that they have linked to one of my sites by claiming they are me. i have the details so will contact ebay and see what they can do

cheers for this. i may teach myself a new system to build websites in. thanks for your help. i will go through and read all these.

hi, i have this one here, http://www.in2town.co.uk/Showbiz-Gossip/max-clifford-denies-sex-abuse-allegations  the showbiz-gossip use to be celebrity news category, but since trying to have the celebrity news redirect using 301 to this page http://www.in2town.co.uk/Showbiz-Gossip  the category has decided to change its name to showbiz gossip and now causes a 404 error

not sure how to solve this, i am reading the info as enclosed but not sure why it has happened and how to sort out the other categories in the correct manner

i tried everything that it said on the info, but i came across a problem. The problem is, i am now getting 404 errors. so for example

http://www.in2town.co.uk/Holiday-News/easyjet-offer-low-cost-flights-from-newcastle-to-amsterdam

the above article, the section it was under was news travel   but since i redirected the blog section of news travel to holiday news which is here http://www.in2town.co.uk/Holiday-News    it comes up with a 404 error and changes the section to holiday news.

this has happened with many other articles, instead of just trying one section as a 301 redirect in the htaccess file i decided to change four sections, pointing the blogs to the main sections. Now it seems i have hundreds of 404 errors. i have deleted the 301 redirects but they seem to stay redirected.

it is strange this has happened as i have not read it happening to anyone else

keri, yesterday i pressed good answer. now it seems to me there is a problem with your system as i pressed good answer yesterday and it came up that i pressed good answer.

I really think you need to sort out what is going on and while you are there, when is the rank tracker going to be fixed as all members are paying for tools and we should all get a rebate if one of them is not working, just saying.

Thank you for this, this is amazing help and will solve my problem.

Hi, i have a serious problem. I work in joomla and sometimes it can be annoying. When you set up a category, you need to give it a name and maybe this is a huge error on my part as i did not really think about the names beforehand.

The situation i have now is, all my sections are in front page mode, but because you have to name the categories in order to write articles, i am now left with a load of blog sections such as http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news

Now i have a main section called Benidorm news so i have duplicate sections, i want to know if i can redirect the http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news to go to the main benidorm section or if there is a better way of doing it.

i have left this blod layout the way it is to show you, but the others i just have it where it shows the title and then goes to the article.

I work in k2 and would be grateful if anyone can let me know the solution to this as semoz is showing that i have many duplicate titles and content

many thanks

i think the trouble i have is, i do not mean for the keywords to appear so much but because they appear in the articles and i show a brief view of the articles on that page, they have the keyword of gastric band hypnosis and gastric band hypnotherapy in them.

It is like i cannot win. i want to have the keywords in there in h2, and for the titles as that is what the page is about, maybe it maybe a good idea to get rid of the bottom section of about gastric band hypnotherapy

I have a question. I was going through my links and i have found a number of links from ebay on pages of products that it seems they are trying to state they belong to our company.

I would like to know if anyone has come across this and what can be done about it.

thanks for this. i have taken out the meta name. can you let me know how many times you should have a keyword in your page. i need to look at this and reduce the number of times that the keywords are mentioned.

I have the areas in as i was stating that it is being used in all the major cities in the UK but i will change this.

not being funny irving but why have you come on here irving when for starters i have given them a thumbs up and secondly you are wasting space on a topic that i find important. if you have nothing to give to this topic then i would ask you not to come on here with statements that have no relevance to the topic

just added a new one as i work in k2 http://www.in2town.co.uk/component/option,com_dmk2googlenewssitemap/lang,en/

hi, i did not have the google news sitemap with my google webmaster tools. i use to have one but i got rid of it when i was no longer in google news.

i work in joomla so i have just downloaded one now but came across an error which i have posted on the joomla forum as below

Hi, i have downloaded the google news sitemap generator which is here http://googlenewssitemap.com/#downloads but for some reason when i put it into my google webmaster tools it comes up with the following

Errors

Missing XML tag

This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.

1

Parent tag: urlset
Tag: url

4

Dec 21, 2012

can anyone please let me know what i need to do to solve this. here is the google news sitemap

http://www.in2town.co.uk/component/option,com_gnsg/lang,en/view,GNSG/

do you feel it is just the sitemap that is the reason why i have been turned down again and again for google news

cheers for this i will re look at it and see what i need to do

Hi, when we had the old design, we were in google news but then when we upgraded our site, we had a major problem which forced us to have to redesign our site. Since then we have not been included in google news and we would like to get back in.

We only want to be in google news for the following page http://www.in2town.co.uk/Latest-News-Headlines

But for some reason, no matter what we do we keep getting knocked back.

I would love to know what we should be doing to get into google news and see what the problems are.

We have moved to a bigger dedicated server to increase speed so i know it is not that.

Any help would be great

Also is there an alternative to google news that i can get our site into to generate traffic and to get our news stories straight out to people

Hi,

Thank you for your note.

We appreciate your interest in sharing your content with us. However, when we reviewed your site, we found that we cannot include it in Google News at this time.

We have certain guidelines in place regarding the quality of sites which are included in Google News. Please feel free to review these guidelines at the following link:

http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40787

We know it can be frustrating to not have more information about this but we appreciate your efforts and understanding. We will log your site for future consideration. Please keep in mind that we will be unlikely to review your site for at least 60 days following this email.

Thanks for your understanding and your continued interest in Google News.

Regards,
The Google News Team

Hi, i am working on a page at the moment and i am trying to work out why i do not rank well for the keyword gastric band hypnotherapy or gastric band hypnosis.

The page is http://www.in2town.co.uk/Gastric-Band-Hypnotherapy

any help on what i need to change to start ranking well would be of a great help

thank you for this. been reading this a few times but i am still puzzled on how to do it. i use joomla and now sure how i can impliment this, any more advice would be great

sorry not showing properly below

http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-newsandhttp://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2

this is the problem i have here

Issue: Duplicate Page Title

<dl>

<dt>Page Title</dt>

<dd>Benidorm News</dd>

</dl>

Sample URLs with this Duplicate Page Title

http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-1

http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2

|

hi i am just checking my errors on my site and it is telling me about duplicate pagination results, so i am just wondering if pagination is bad for seo

for example

http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2

i also have page 3 and page 4.

should i stop my site from having this to help with seo

thanks for this, i have read about the brand but never really understood it as some people say it works and other people say it does not work.

My brand is in2town which would not bring me traffic, the keywords that would bring me traffic is lifestyle news, online magazine, lifestyle magazine etc

i have about 2000 old links pointing to different sections in my site, these have been put in my htaccess file, i have about another 2000 that are not pointing anywhere.

I lost around 4,000 links because of the problem upgrading, long story but it is on the forum of what happened.

should i be pointing the other links that are doing nothing to my home page or put them in the correct sections. if i point them all the the home page then the home page will have around 2000 links with so many different anchor text as a lot of the old links are story articles.

many thanks for the advice

Hi. my site www.in2town.co.uk  is currently number five in google for the search word lifestyle magazine, sometimes it moves to four but for over a year it has not got past four. before we had to do the site from scratch due to a major problem upgrading, we were number one in the search engines and our traffic was around 30% higher than it is now.

For the keyword lifestyle news, we are on the fifth page of google and would really like to improve this.

I would like to know what i need to do on our home page to try and improve our rankings for these two words. the most important word for us is lifestyle news.

any help in my goal to improve our rankings would be great.

We have improved our design which we are still working on, and we have upgraded to a bigger dedicated server to improve the speed.

cheers for that. i will keep away from them. was just wondering if anyone had any experience with them. so now i know i will keep away. it was just for a new site

Hi, i am just wondering if anyone does any seo or anything with their twitter page to gain more followers.

I have justover 19,000 followers and since launching the twitter account we are getting about 500 followers per week and i am just wondering if there is anything we should do to improve this.

I am not sure if we should be putting keywords into our twitter page or anything else to let people know about our twitter page.

any advice would be great.

also, when we set up our twitter page we decided to use the following twitter name

@2celebritynews

just wondering if you are allowed to change this at any stage as we should really have got the twitter page of @in2town

if it is not possible to change it then maybe we will need to start over again

Hi, i receive around ten emails a day claiming they can help you get your site in the top ten in google, now i know most are a load of rubbish but i am just wondering if anyone has used any of these companies for a new site or an old site.

I am about to launch a new site after xmas and i am just wondering if any of these companies are worth looking at to help promote the new site instead of doing all the ground work myself.

Would love to know your thoughts

thanks for this

hi, i have some urls that i am either going to put on hold or thinking about pointing to one of my sites.

what it is, i am looking at re-designing the pages but not until next year, so i thought i would point some of the urls to a site that i am happy with to different pages, but not sure if i am allowed this or not

so for example, if i have a site on cars, and one of the url is www.rovercars.co.uk i was thinking about pointing it to the page that is about rover cars.

can anyone let me know if this is allowed or not please

thanks for this. been having for a long time trouble with a site map. the reason is, i use joomla 1.5 and i am not sure the best way to have it set or which is the best tool to use.

my articles change all the time and not sure how many of the articles i should have in the site map or to have just the sections.

on an old site i had all the articles, well up to 2,000 and that gain me a lot of traffic but with the new site i took that down

Hi, just doing some seo on my site and i am not sure if i have my robots file set correctly. i use joomla and my website is www.in2town.co.uk.

here is my robots file, does this look correct to you

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/

many thanks

thanks for this, i will learn today how to set it up and then put it on the site, many thanks

Hi, i am wondering if anyone uses rss feeds to bring visitors to their site. My site is www.in2town.co.uk and i am not sure if it would be worthwhile in using rss feeds to bring visitors to my site.

I must admit i have never subscribed to any rss feeds so this has got me thinking, do many people subscribe to them these days.

Thank you alex i will have a look now. Cannot believe that different tools are bringing back different results

thanks for that, will have a look now

Hi, i have just made some changes on my site by adding some redirects and i want to know what affect this has had on my site www.in2town.co.uk

I have been using tools such as Pingdom tools, http://gtmetrix.com  but these always give me different time reports so i do not know the true speed of my site and give me different advice. So i am wanting to know how to check the true speed for my site in the UK and how to check for the errors to make it better

any advice would be great on which tools to use

hi, is anyone having problems with rank tracker. I have been trying to use it but it comes up with problems

Thanks for that. i have notified them and it is running faster, so i will keep an eye on it. one of my major problems at the moment in the speed tool is it keeps coming up with  Specify image dimensions  which i have done in my joomla website and it also comes up with Optimize images, which i do as i use photoshop so i am a bit puzzled why it is saying these two things. But i am happy the speed is faster now after getting a new server, will keep testing it over the next few days.

thanks everyone

hi thanks for this i will try them out, are they as good as pingler.com and do you know how i can solve my ip problem. really miss using pingler. Have contacted pingler but got no reply from them

thank you for this, i have sent them a message and hopefully they will get it sorted out, will keep you updated.

Hi, i have bought a new and improved dedicated server but something is not right. The first two days it was fast, but now i am having trouble doing tests on it using

http://gtmetrix.com

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/tOBLrm0fR/www.in2town.co.uk

gtmetrix is having trouble accessing the site and when it does it comes up with 14 seconds and more.

here are the results

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.in2town.co.uk/NqOj98OV

everytime i contact the hosting company about it they say it is running fast and they do not see a problem but refuse to look at the history of this tool.

can anyone please let me know if my computer could be causing these problems or is it my hosting company that is at fault.

my site is www.in2town.co.uk

Hi, i always used pingler.com to drive traffic to my sites but for some reason in the past couple of weeks i cannot get onto the site, i think there could be something wrong with my ip address, not sure.

I have spoken to virgin nearly everyday and all i get off them is to turn off my internet for one week to get a new ip address and see if that works, now there is no way i can turn the internet off for one week. So i am now trying to find another service as good as pingler.com as i cannot see anyway of getting this problem sorted unless if someone has any ideas.

I would like to know if anyone uses services that offers what pingler.com offers and if they could please list them here

many thanks

cheers for that, i will try that. Will have to go to a friends house and use their computer to get the email address

it may be blocking my ip address for some reason and if so how do i solve it.

just tried to hide my ip address and it works so not sure what is going on

just tried it again and cleared my browser and cookies on my mac but still not getting to use it.

I receive the following message

The connection has timed out

The server at pingler.com is taking too long to respond.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
    moments.
  If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
    connection.
  If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
    that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Hi, i have always been a fan of pingler.com but today i have found that the site is not working and would like to know if anyone else has noticed this. I have heard they have stopped the product being available, can anyone confirm this.

If the product is not available, can anyone recommend a product that does the same thing

can i check if the following dedicated hosting package is any better than the ones i have listed

Intel i3 540 3.06 Ghz HT 4MB S-Cache

500GBStorage6GBRAM10TBBandwidth

thanks for this, yes rack space is very expensive and i have read many horror stories relating to 1 and 1 and did speak to them and was not confident with what they had to say, i have had a site vanish on me this week, they have today got it back but lost the template so i have to re enter the template.