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  • Thread Starter ludwin

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    Then, is there a way to change the default category?

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    Well, macmanx, it eventually worked. Three days after I removed that blank line on top of the header.php file, the blog could be found in google. Thanks for that. I know that this blank line was probably the cause of the trouble, because the second of my two blogs had no blank line at the start of its pages, and three days after I installed a sitemap plugin that pinged google, this second blog was listed in google as well.

    One thing is bizarre, however: only the main page of the blog is listed. If I do a research with words which can be found only in the second, third, etc, page, I will not find that page in google. Do you know why?

    Must I just wait a bit more?

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    Adjusting the ul tag? How do I do this?

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    lol… In my previous post, I wrote < u l > without spaces, like a real html tag, and changed the apearance…

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    macmanx, I could not correct the blank space problem from my Apple Mac OS X laptop computer, but now I am in a cybercoffee (using windows), and I could remove the blank line. I don’t know why it did not work from my Mac.

    I also tried the other modifications you suggested, but the problem is that doing so, I modify the appearance. I don’t want to insert

      tags, because this adds space between the lines.

    I will modify the pictures tags, however.

    What consequences could leaving the lists without

      tags have?

    ??

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    Macmanx, the first point you bring to my attention is difficult to solve, because I don’t see the blank line you mention. The source code starts with
    “<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>&#8221;

    And I did not see any blank line preceding the declaration in the header.php file.

    It will be easier to correct the image tags and the list…

    Thanks for your help anyway!

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    lol… macmanx, thanks for that. I had tried this w3 validator, but I must confess that I don’t understand most of the errors I am supposed to have written. I learned html 10 years ago. I still write html chiefly by hand, and in my blog, I insert images manually, writng some code to displayy them. The validator does not agree with the way I do it… “Up to it”, am I tempted to say.

    It is not html any more, it is xhtml, right? Ok, do you think the reason why google seems to disregard my blog is that I don’t have clean xhtml code in my blog? Do you think that if I correct all this, it will be better?

    I am not sure, since the validator also finds many mistakes in my regular website, ludwin.net. But my regular website appears in Google. Only the blog is disregarded.

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    Well, then: I will put the urls of my two blogs here:
    https://ludwin.net/blog/
    https://ludwin.net/bleng/

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    What does link farming mean?

    Thanks Macmanx, I found info about Arne Brachhold’s sitemap generator plugin for google. It is easy to install, and it seems everything worked. There is a sitemap.xml file on my site now. What must I do now? Must I submit my blog to Google again?

    Google has been pinged when the sitemap.xml file was generated. Is that enough?

    I created my blog one month ago, and made a link on my entry page, which is indexed in google.

    But no page of my blog can be seen in google so far. I tried a google search using names existing only in my blog. No result. All the other pages of my site are listed.

    Since I created that blog one month ago, should I wait 2 more months? Somebody said here that google makes a deep scan of all listed websites once every three month. Must I expect then that my blog will be indexed within 3 month?

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    Minna, some browsers offer the option to let the user choose to always use a given set of encoding, background and font color, font fact, etc, but it is not recommended to use that option, except in given cases.

    As far as I know, html encoding is the surest way to always get the result you want. But if the header says utf-8, and you actually type in utf-8 characters, this should be enough, for it works in most cases.

    I worry about the encoding because I write in French living in South-East Asia, editing my blog using cybercoffees. This is an extreme case. In some cybercoffees, my blog looks bizarre if I don’t use html encoding.

    Thread Starter ludwin

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    Yngwin, thanks for your reply.
    Unicode is not yet the default encoding on every computer. It might be the encoding format of the future, but nowadays, I find that html encoding is safer…

    If I chose unicode, my browser must be set to read unicode, if I uses latin-9, the result will be horrific. I must therefore warn my readers: chose unicode encoding…

    The advantage of using html encoding is that it will be read correctly no matter which encoding system has been chosen in the browser.

    There are some javascript codes that prevent a surfer from copying a picture on a website, but there are, of course, ways to go around this… When you write about image theft, you mean people who use pictures of your website without your authorisation, don’t you? The answer is no, there is no way to pervent this. There are ways to make it more difficult, but it will still be possible.

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