Statistics show......that.

[Amencorner]

This is how this is posted on my website.When you run your own website as I do, there is normally a control panel that comes with the hosting package. And in that control panel there is a program called "awastats", so regularly I check to see how many people are visiting, on each site I run. There are six sites all told combined into one main site, so I check each individual site, which are on sub domains except for the main site. It came to my attention Christian.journal77.com was having the best percentage of people staying on each visit.It suddenly struck me what was happening, it was the title of the site, Christian, I wasn't getting any time wasters because I was up front with what the site was about, a Christian Blog for writing.So I decided where I could, and that was every site, to put, that it was a Christian site.It will be interesting to see how it goes, Alan

[bdh]

You are so right. Attracting people to a site because they will see what they expect to see will always result in longer visits.

[Amencorner]

Thank you, looking back in hind site if I had looked at your comprehensive help section when signing up for a website I could have moved on further. But never the less it has been and hopefully will continue to be an adventure learning as I go, much like life really learning by ones mistakes.Reading some of the other posts here at website stuff I could do with an add-on domain name which would then bring who or what the site is about right into context with what people are searching for on the search engines. I think my problem from the start has been I'm good with my hands practically speaking being a joiner, but slow taking in written information. And I do understand to be able to supply hosting at such low prices as Webnet77 do, there has to be certain amount of do it your self.Having said all that the software packages from softculas ( probably spelt that wrong) are really easy to install on a site, you can then be up and running in a very short time.Alan

[Amencorner]

Hello, I purchased a domain add on at the week-end, and have now installed it into the add-on domains section in the control panel.I have then gone to my ftp up loader in serif page plus 9 software and up loaded a copy of my main site with the new domain name on the site. (This being the purpose of the new domain) On uploading I had to put my main website name (journal77.com) and password ( not the add-on name)then to the folder /public_html/Christian.com ( this being the new domain name)
I then checked to see if it came up in a browser search and it did. I then went back to the control panel, and then into awstats to see if it was there. It was there but it showed up as Christian77.journal77.com....and on entering the awstats statistics, activity showed up.
Does this look or sound right? Alan

P.s. if you can understand what I am saying me thinks I'm doing well

[bdh]

I think I understand.

It is all as it should be:

a. On the physical server, it is a folder only of your main site - public_html/Whatever-you-made-it. Whne you upload to this site, you upload to public_html/Whatever-you-made-it on your main domain.
b. on the Web (http) public_html/Whatever-you-made-it refers to christian77.com
c. As far as AWSTATS is concerned, public_html/Whatever-you-made-it is a sub.domain of the main domain (this is purely a technical thing and the way AWSTATS sees the domain)

[Amencorner]

Hello, yes you have understood perfectly,and this in turn has helped my understanding, thank you, Alan

[Amencorner]

Hello again, There is one question I would like to ask, to do with search engine details such as Google. Can individuals or hosts of internet services, such as yourself for an example, post stories they might want to post in the midst of the search engine findings? For instance a visitor to my sight left a comment,saying you must have friends in Google, the way they have promoted your sight, she said I found your site in the midst of a place you shouldn't be, I was looking in a place entirely unrelated,( this comment sounded false to me?) possibly the truth but a spam comment, Alan

[bdh]

Google usually uses the META DESCRIPTION tag to list the site in a search. However, depending on the search terms used, the often try to contextualize the listing and ignore the META DESCRIPTION tag. I've never figured out exactly what triggers that change.

As far as influencing Google - or any other - I don't think there are any legal ways to do that... and the Search engines are getting pretty good at spotting and penalizing sites that try the illegal ways (hidden text, a jumble of words etc)

Lastly, you will often find porn sites linked to Christian sites - this is a trick ponmongers use to try to grab traffic for people looking for something Christian when "surprise! ... it's a porn site!". This happens often actually. Nasty, but it happens.

[ikester7579]

Hello again, There is one question I would like to ask, to do with search engine details such as Google. Can individuals or hosts of internet services, such as yourself for an example, post stories they might want to post in the midst of the search engine findings? For instance a visitor to my sight left a comment,saying you must have friends in Google, the way they have promoted your sight, she said I found your site in the midst of a place you shouldn't be, I was looking in a place entirely unrelated,( this comment sounded false to me?) possibly the truth but a spam comment, Alan

There are bots that are programed to say that when they post among other things to worry you. I have one that constantly says the same exact thing when it posts. Trying to get me to waste my time fixing spelling errors that don't exist. I have found a couple but I have spell check. And there are bots programed to hit on Christian sites. I have my blog separated with Christian theology on one part and creation vs evolution on the other part. The bots only hit on the pages that have Christian words or phrases. So I did a little experiment to make sure this was the case and it was not random that just happened to be hitting those pages. So I turned off all comments on the theology pages and it stopped. Which proved to me there is a bot war against Christian sites. The things atheist do that's ironic when they claim there is no God.

I have had posting disabled for over a month on those pages and I'm getting 98% less bot posting spam etc... I may get 1-5 a week when before it was that much in one day if not more.

[Amencorner]

Hello, just like to say thank you for you insight into these matters. The Webnet77 team have been a great help when one of my sites was over run with spam, I'm talking in the thousands. I have that all under control now, this post is in amongst my Google search results for my website. Could it be something to do with the fact that Google pick up all the links and iframes I have on my site, one or two of them are Bibleforums, there is a word for what it's called, I had it earlier on to-day, anyway the word will come back to me. Alan

[ikester7579]

Hello, just like to say thank you for you insight into these matters. The Webnet77 team have been a great help when one of my sites was over run with spam, I'm talking in the thousands. I have that all under control now, this post is in amongst my Google search results for my website. Could it be something to do with the fact that Google pick up all the links and iframes I have on my site, one or two of them are Bibleforums, there is a word for what it's called, I had it earlier on to-day, anyway the word will come back to me. Alan

You probably have several phrases the spam bots search for as to the reason they came to your site. But if you got it under control I would not worry about it. I have wordpress blog and that was where they were posting only on the Christian areas. As far as e-mail spam goes I have my filters set pretty good, so not much gets through.

[Amencorner]

Re: Statistics show......that.

Hello, just like to say thank you for you insight into these matters. The Webnet77 team have been a great help when one of my sites was over run with spam, I'm talking in the thousands. I have that all under control now, this post is in amongst my Google search results for my website. Could it be something to do with the fact that Google pick up all the links and iframes I have on my site, one or two of them are Bibleforums, there is a word for what it's called, I had it earlier on to-day, anyway the word will come back to me. Alan

P.S. that's the word optimization, a way of having more visitors, by using links on your site.

[Amencorner]

Google usually uses the META DESCRIPTION tag to list the site in a search. However, depending on the search terms used, the often try to contextualize the listing and ignore the META DESCRIPTION tag. I've never figured out exactly what triggers that change.

As far as influencing Google - or any other - I don't think there are any legal ways to do that... and the Search engines are getting pretty good at spotting and penalizing sites that try the illegal ways (hidden text, a jumble of words etc)

Lastly, you will often find porn sites linked to Christian sites - this is a trick ponmongers use to try to grab traffic for people looking for something Christian when "surprise! ... it's a porn site!". This happens often actually. Nasty, but it happens.

thank you for your insight into the world of the internet,Alan

[Amencorner]

Google usually uses the META DESCRIPTION tag to list the site in a search. However, depending on the search terms used, the often try to contextualize the listing and ignore the META DESCRIPTION tag. I've never figured out exactly what triggers that change.

As far as influencing Google - or any other - I don't think there are any legal ways to do that... and the Search engines are getting pretty good at spotting and penalizing sites that try the illegal ways (hidden text, a jumble of words etc)

Lastly, you will often find porn sites linked to Christian sites - this is a trick ponmongers use to try to grab traffic for people looking for something Christian when "surprise! ... it's a porn site!". This happens often actually. Nasty, but it happens.

hello, about 12 months ago or so, I received an e-mail of a person running a web site. The person said I was using a system called optimising, which I was quite unaware s of.Basically I had loads of links to other Christian websites, so improving my ratings with the search engines like Google. So this person was asking to join our sites together by sharing links with each other,her site was a good site but I decided against it.
I think because I have a link with Bibleforums this produces good activity on the search engine results, thus this post( which we are writing now) is put amongst my web site search results on Google, which is good news.Alan

[ikester7579]

hello, about 12 months ago or so, I received an e-mail of a person running a web site. The person said I was using a system called optimising, which I was quite unaware s of.Basically I had loads of links to other Christian websites, so improving my ratings with the search engines like Google. So this person was asking to join our sites together by sharing links with each other,her site was a good site but I decided against it.
I think because I have a link with Bibleforums this produces good activity on the search engine results, thus this post( which we are writing now) is put amongst my web site search results on Google, which is good news.Alan

More spam. E-mails that say link to me, or I'm using the new fantastic program, networking or way of doing this or that that will help you etc... It's nothing but spam and will bring you more headaches then it's worth even if it's free. Never ever download anything from them or click on their links. Curiosity will destroy your pc with a virus. I know because I click on one once and got what I deserved for being curious instead of using the delete button.

If you cannot resist clicking, do it on some old pc you no longer care about or use.