[ic] PVT PVT I had this in html before - goofed,

[DesertMoon9]

Dear Phillip,

Resending, this, I am not subbed but goofed and had this in html when I sent it.
Could you protect my identity? And post this to the forum?  It's NOT THE FORUM
that I ask the protection from, as much as the postings are public on the net and I 
live in a HIGHLY conservative, smaller community. 

Some of our family work in higher profile positions and deal with potentials of a 
lot of judgement as it pertains to religous and spiritual differences in philosophy.

We need some help badly with the site.  It's been up for a couple of years and I
wondered if a domain might moves things along.  It's gotten good traffic at times
and all but one search engine has something on it listing or a link to it.

Thanks ever so much for any help you might consider.
Lar Shackelford
DesertMoon9@msn.com

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: DesertMoon9 
To: interchange-users@icdevgroup.org 
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:20 AM
Subject: checking in with a forum question


Dear Phillip,

I found some of your wisdom on a Google search in which I was trying to search for information 
about a 301 permanent change.  

You wrote, (quoting Google Guy) "301 is the only way if your going to redirect and expect rankings."
I continue to read this same opinion on the net in forums amongst web masters but I am still having 
trouble.  Could I presume upon your understanding and experience to ask a question or two?

We have nice placements in all the search engines, with our site on Angelfire.  We want 
the crawlers or spiders to eventually show us at our new domain.  I had read that some spiders 
didn't keep a listing of a site, when moving a web site from one spot to another, if the HTML (change) 
was done in the meta tags.  I wish I'd bought a domain name from the beginning.  Live and learn.

Would using a 301 change vary in a free site as I'm not getting it to function?  For one 
thing the editor won't even let me save a .htaccess but it will a htaccess (note the lack of the ".")

Below are the directions I used: 


1) Create a file in Notepad called htaccess.txt and store it in same directory on your hard drive as your index.html file. 
2) put lines like these in it: 

Send a permanent redirect from our old files to our new files and to handle 404 Errors 
errorDocument 404 /page-not-found.html 
Redirect permanent /old-missing-page-1.html http://www.your-url.com/new-replacement-page-1.html 
Redirect permanent /old-missing-page-2.html http://www.your-url.com/new-replacement-page-2.html 

3) save the file to your hard drive 
4) upload to your root directory on your host server. 
5) rename the file to ".htaccess" (without the quotes) 
6) test it to make sure it works! 


I had no luck, though I did find myself trying a lot of things in this formula, as I felt my take on it was 
different than the author meant it to be.  I was either having early senior moments or an attack of
dyslexia, heaven knows but the result or answer won't come through my tiny brain. ;)  I'm self taught
and perhaps too much a point and click, visual learner.  I tried such variations as 
/biz/6/desertmoonprofiles etc and nothing would help shake this into gear.  I couldn't tell where 
I should be typing this code for sure either, in the body of the page or the meta tags?

The current site is:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/desertmoonprofiles/

The new site is:

a domain set up ready to go, desertmoonprofiles.com

Thanks so much for your help and your time! 

Web Site Creator
DesertMoon9@msn.com