Site Restored!... sort of....

Ok, got the site back up but all the page names have changed... part of what caused the problem in the first place.

With the site migration I was going to have to change all the page names anyway, about a good day's worth of work, but worth it because of the benefits for indexing the site and getting noticed on Google.

Put together two more pages with music and will be requesting permission from the artists tomorrow.

Rebuilding my site map now...

CRASH!

So I completely lost my web presence today.... and my site, which I'm waiting to see if I can recover it right now... waiting for a copied portion to upload to mobile me and see if it works or not... VERY scary. I'm looking at somewhere around 500 hours of work.

Started getting publishing errors and I couldn't correct them. Restarted computer, rebooted iWeb many times, then I created a new site to see if that would publish and unwittingly published it OVER my old site on-line... completely wiping out what was there before!

Now I'm transferring one page at a time over to this new site and attempting to publish that... which seems to be happening except... it's not finishing the process... yet... seems frozen.

Spent all day updating all my links and transferring the site to a new server... good news is it is stored there as of about 2 PM today... bad news is I've been working on it all day... sooooo I shouldn't have any possibility of losing the 500 hours... just the 8 from today.

Crossing my fingers.

Gotta walk away from the computer and breathe...

All things for a reason.

1/15/2011 - New web host needed...

Spent the last two days with my son and woke up this morning realizing I need a new website host. Google, for whatever reason, is not crawling my site and it looks like it is a mobile me problem. Changing hosts is going to take me HOURS of rewriting all my links; boring and tedious work. Hoping to complete this all today. 

Drawing up spreadsheets first.

1/12/11 Editing and SEOing top three site pages...

Two clients this morning so I only logged 13 hours. Started the day by realizing my header tags hidden behind pictures were showing up in a font so large it spilled out and looked horrible. Took 2 hours to fix on all the pages but I consider that a gift as I'd found something that said italicized and bolded words may get preferential treatment viewing by browser bots... so it gave me an opportunity to bold all those too.

Next I edited the top three pages of the site:
http://www.onecommunityranch.com/OneCommunity/Why_Now.html
http://www.onecommunityranch.com/OneCommunity/What_Is_It.html
http://www.onecommunityranch.com/OneCommunity/Join_Us.html

"Editing" means I researched key words, added meta tags, added title tags, added image tags, and rewrote the whole thing. End result is outstanding in my opinion and I feel really good about it. Sent them off to Nanice.

Tuesday with my son

Tuesdays are with my son. Today we went to Griffith park and spent the day at the playground, mixing and matching parts on his animal morphs, and enjoying nature.  Good Times :) Back at it tomorrow.

Working on increasing my web ranking...

Gotta get my web ranking up. Typing in "One Community Ranch" in Google doesn't even bring up my page and "One Community" with associated terms like self-sustainability, eco, green, etc. is even worse.

I've created a site map, placed links to my page on prominent sites like the CHEK Institute and others, and now I'm looking into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools... looks like Rage Software has the one I'm going to use because it works well with iWeb.

Let the learning begin :).... More later...

Found out this is part of the problem: Google sees http://www.onecommunityranch.com/OneCommunity/HOME.html
as very different from
http://web.me.com/jsabol/OneCommunity/HOME.html

Something to do with Java... which I know nothing about. What I do know, is that page one, linking to page two, linking to page 3, and then linking back to page 1 is apparently VERY important in the eyes of Google... so I'm now updating all pages to have the first HTML string rather than the second and making sure that the first three levels of my pages all link back to each other and page one.

Writing this now rather than later as it seems the process has crashed my iWeb and I've gotta wait for it to uncrash so I can reboot and hopefully the problem will go away :(

Recreated facebook image to this:

Creating This

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11PM now... spent all day (sat down at 8 AM, finishing now) updating all my links and researching keywords for the community, resulting in 7 new pages on the website that will become articles also for Digg and eZines. Spent hours creating header tags, and getting organized for the keywords in relation to meta tags, image tags, and title tags. 

By the time I'm done I'll have some pretty solid ranking I think.

Exhausted now and I've got Hakan tomorrow so turning in... all in all a good day even though my computer crashed three times :) Good think I save frequently lol 

Back to logging my activity...

Ok, I'm going to start logging my activity again in case someone ever needs to see the process of setting everything up.

Spent about eight hours today. Primary focus was on completing the One Community brochure that can now be downloaded here: One Community Brochure, fixing the Community Member Interest Form that can be downloaded from the Community Member Page, updating all the One Community Website links with the newly finished and finalized edited brochure, updating a few more pictures on the site, adding the background to all the blue water drop pages, and researching and posting my first eZine article that I am now waiting for approval on.

Other notes of interest were Nanice removing herself as a "Creator" of One Community and choosing to be a consultant instead due to all the stuff going on in her life. Edited Team Page to move her to the bottom and bump John up.

I updated the pictures on the following pages:
http://www.onecommunityranch.com/One-Community-Member.html
http://www.onecommunityranch.com/Community-Retiree.html


Added a couple questions to the FAQ page and updated the anchor links.

Spoke with John about the financial format and spreadsheets I'll be running as well as Nanice's new role.

Signed up for a Digg account to increase page ranking.
Started researching Facebook and how to popularize the new One Community Fan Page.


Realizing now that I need to change the image for Facebook so it is all visible on links like this....