Moonfruit Lounge - Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Comments

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Walt

Walt — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:53:43 +0100

Hi Justin,

The office has been rather hectic of late and Joe has been busy with meetings. So apologies for the lack of response.

You may have already checked your indexed pages using the 'site:' method in Google i.e. typing into the search box: "site:www.qimarketing.com".

You can simply just use the short format e.g. www.yoursite.com/pagename as it will automatically redirect to the fuller version with page ID. However, to ensure consistency you should use the full page URL e.g. www.yoursite.com/pagename/pageID which Google will use as the definitive URL.

So, in a nutshell use the full page URL (or URI) including the page ID in all links pointing at your site. This will mean that the links are consistent with what is currently indexed on Google.

Hope that helps.

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Justin @ Qi

Justin @ Qi — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:17:51 +0100

Hi Walt - no response from Joe on my question posed here in Comment no.35. As you are monitoring this blog perhaps you can respond as I am still unclear on this.

Many thanks - Justin

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Walt

Walt — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:33:31 +0100

Hi Alex,

No this is still fully operational. What is most likely to be causing the page IDs to be missing is that you are forwarding your domain name. Forwarding or masked forwarding positions your site within a frame which has implications for SEO and PayPal should you consider using e-commerce tools. It will also negate the Page IDs we supply.

The solution to this is to contact your domain name provider and set your DNS A-record to 'point' your domain name to our web servers. You've already added your domain names to your account you now need to have them pointed to get the full benefit of using your own domain. Please note this does not involve changing name servers and we do provide instructions in our FAQ. If you need further details on how to do this please contact support by submitting a query and indicate what domain name provider you use and we will see if we can assist further.

Walt

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:23:13 +0100

Hi, was this new feauture removed?? I dont see the numbers on my pages and when I go back in my browser it gets me out of my website to the previous general websited visited, not to my previous page within my site.

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Justin @ Qi

Justin @ Qi — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:23:56 +0100

Hi Joe. Hope you are out there and can pick up on something we have touched on before – but I am now confused about.

I am having some issues with some of my sites Google SERPS and Goolge PageRanks and any comments from you here would help with some of my suspicions. My question relates back to the changes made the Sitemaker URLs (touched on in your comment here – no.13).

Essentially I am confused as to what URLs the search engines index and so what URLs we should use for linking purposes. When doing any deep linking I have always in past linked the page name only EG: www.qimarketing.com/advertising

The search engines index the URL with the 'new' number now, apart from the home page which is numberless. EG: www.qimarketing.com/advertising/4523168691

When linking to my site from another site should I be linking with the number or not? I know both methods will actually find the page but I am talking about the effects here on link building. Will this make any difference in your view?

many thanks
Justin

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:08:23 +0000

Will this URL mod affect my Google listings status? Over the last couple of days, my site has dropped considerably and my sitemap is showing 4 url's restricted by robot.txt and 1 http 403. Seems very strange that my site has almost disappeared from Google?

Thanks Becky

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - James Malou Majok

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Updating page URLs and bookmarking - seocontest2008

seocontest2008 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:36:19 +0000

Hi there! is it better to make blogs like the above now that you have changing url's. was wondering if i should have chosen MF - instead of blogger for my blog!

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - bed and breakfast new delhi

bed and breakfast new delhi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:24:23 +0000

Finally - my inner pages can also get some PR - instead of my home page only !
Thanks MF!

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Paul

Paul — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:22 +0000

Just to say thank you - this is another fantastic improvement...really look forward to it

Best wishes

Paul

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - T1

T1 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:42:20 +0000

Hey guys, the Title tag makes an excellent upgrade and I'd like to see at least a 45 character count so we can be descriptive as possible. Let's keep it going!

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Soulcure.com

Soulcure.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:05:46 +0000

I see this as a really valuable function.

Often I link to pages on my site from my blogs and social networking profiles ... being able to simply copy and paste the link from the url bar makes life much easier.

Proclaima

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - nadadenadie

nadadenadie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:16:50 +0000

Why moonfruit does not work now? I can't edit my website...

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Toronto Home Theater

Toronto Home Theater — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:52:59 +0000

thanks for the update joe... that is very good news and a quick turnaround... when is next release approx. ?

Jeff

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - joe

joe — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:22:56 +0000

Hi Justin,

I've got the answers for you, the 30 character menu name field is actually a database constraint, which means it's much more difficult for us to change. Which is not to say we won't do it, but we can't do it quickly. The page title meta tag is a quick change, so we'll increase that to 120 characters on the next release. Thanks,

Joe

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - 4WardEver

4WardEver — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:39:26 +0000

Hey guys,

This is great news! I won't say any more as it's all been said already - good on ya.

Just wanted to say that we got around this problem of visitors wanting to save the full URL or send it to someone else, by inserting the 'forward to a friend' feature on the most topical pages of our sites. Following another upgrade by MF last year, this meant that the full URL (including our own domain name) could be easily sent on to others.

What some of our regular visitors would do also, is email a page to themselves then cut and past the full URL that showed up in their mail - it is a fairly quick and efficient way for most people; however your upgrade will help visitors who are not particularly PC savvy, and who think that a cut&paste is something to do with hanging wallpaper........!! They will be happy! :-)

Lookin forward to Feb,
Tippa

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - joe

joe — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:06:42 +0000

Hi Justin, yes, I thought you might say that ;-) I'll speak to the guys and see what we can do. This one may be a database issue though. Thanks, Joe

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - Justin @ Qi Marketing

Justin @ Qi Marketing — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:20:57 +0000

Wow - RESULT :-)

V.happy to hear the good news about the Title Tag.

As far as the actual page name goes the 'nasty cropping' you mention happens anyway at the moment on the menu display if you have too many words in a page title, so I don't see the difference of increasing this field from 30 characters to a few more.

The reason being, as you may have worked out already, is that if you create your own menus from inserting Button Links or your own button graphics then you can label the button "ABC" and have the page name as "XYZ". This means that you can create your own menus and then have your URL containing what you want (v.valuable in SEO terms).

I won't push my luck as I am happy with the result on the Meta Name, but expanding the Page Name field would make sense if it provides more options for users and has no practical or technical drawbacks.

Thanks again
Justin

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - joe

joe — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:04:32 +0000

Hi Justin, this may be more difficult for the actual page name, as this is also the name that is used in the menu, which means it would create some nasty cropping if it can't fit. The Page Title tag should not be a problem and we'll change it on the next release. Thanks,

Joe

Updating page URLs and bookmarking - 4WardEver

4WardEver — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:45:59 +0000

Hi There,

Just recently we have noticed that the video player continues play even when visitors move to a new page. This only seems to be happening on the new site we are setting up (www.mikeypowell-campaign.org.uk), the problem does not arise on the 4WardEver Campaign site.

Don't know if other Moonfruiters have noticed this? Please advise!

Regards,
Tippa