Ronnie Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Wow I've not seen a pointless and counterproductive splash page in what feels like a decade. I have a good reason for having my splash page Is there a good reason the font on your website is so tiny and the article closing image of that (I assume) Pokemon is so huge?
Serebii Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 To reduce your Google ranking? To deter visitors? It's actually because of the google ranking. Google has ignored that page and gone straight for my news page. If I were to shift the news page to the Splash page's URL, I'd not only lose people who bookmarked, I'd lose my google position
bob Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Guys we're supposed to be bashing Facebook here, not Serebii.
Charlie Posted March 8, 2013 Author Posted March 8, 2013 It's actually because of the google ranking. Google has ignored that page and gone straight for my news page. If I were to shift the news page to the Splash page's URL, I'd not only lose people who bookmarked, I'd lose my google position It's ignored that page because it is a splash page that serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. If you were to change index2 to index then you could implement some features that would make it pick up the linkjuice. As for people who have bookmarked, that's a pretty simple fix... Long story short, your site has fantastic content and is a great resource but is SEO hell. Great content can easily equal great SEO if you were to implement even just permalinks for your news articles.
Serebii Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 It's ignored that page because it is a splash page that serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. If you were to change index2 to index then you could implement some features that would make it pick up the linkjuice. As for people who have bookmarked, that's a pretty simple fix... Long story short, your site has fantastic content and is a great resource but is SEO hell. Great content can easily equal great SEO if you were to implement even just permalinks for your news articles. The site does well enough, SEO-wise :p Top of most Pokémon related searches, just off top otherwise (due to google's prioritising of wikis
Charlie Posted March 8, 2013 Author Posted March 8, 2013 The site does well enough, SEO-wise :p Top of most Pokémon related searches, just off top otherwise (due to google's prioritising of wikis But it could be doing better! I bet other rival sites (i.e. Bulbapedia, who I assume you're referring to) will be catching you due to their superior on-site SEO. Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm telling you this, you don't seem to listen to advice given.
Ike Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 All those issues can be sorted with a simple mod rewrite.
Serebii Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 But it could be doing better! I bet other rival sites (i.e. Bulbapedia, who I assume you're referring to) will be catching you due to their superior on-site SEO. Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm telling you this, you don't seem to listen to advice given. Perhaps, but it'd require significant rewrites
bob Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 I heard all it would take would be a simple mod rewrite. Anywho, i've got the new Facebook yet, has anyone?
Shorty Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 (edited) Afaik you'll only have it if you put yourself on "the list". Back to Serebii... Mod rewrite your urls, or 301 redirect, it wouldn't be a problem. A splash page is SEO suicide and straight out of 15 years ago. Just because you do well in SEO doesn't mean you should become complacent... I'm following this derailment because I couldn't care less about Facebook and G+ :p Edited March 8, 2013 by Shorty
mcj metroid Posted March 11, 2013 Posted March 11, 2013 I'm set to listen to everyone have yet ANOTHER shit attack about how they hate it/will leave facebook/will murder their families etc etc in the next coming weeks so.... lovely
ReZourceman Posted March 11, 2013 Posted March 11, 2013 Serebii, you should change your website to a porno site.
Debug Mode Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 Serebii, you should change your website to a porno site. It went pretty well last time
Cube Posted March 30, 2013 Posted March 30, 2013 So, Facebook has issued a change. But it's not this one. The timeline is now a single steam of updates on one side, with extra information on the other side (so, just like Twitter an Google+). So they've listened to all the complaints of having to alternate sides as you moved down the page. It's a bit odd that when you reach the end of the left bar, it starts following you down the page.
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