| LED Digest 2443: Going Offline - Print Catalogs |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom www.GetWebContent.com/LED : the LED's Key Sponsor The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. www.SEOToolSet.com/training/ : the LED's Premier Sponsor Bruce Clay's Search Engine Optimization Training & Certification ================================================== Guest Moderator: Published by: John Audette LED Digest john, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. July 3, 2007 Issue no. 2443 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ===== NEW ====================== --== Offline Action: Print Catalogs? ==-- ~ Chris Allen "Has anyone converted their website into a paper catalog?" --== Sketchy Incoming Links ==-- ~ Sandra Combs "...someone is putting [our] links at the bottom of link farm pages." --== Virus Preventing Google Access ==-- ~ Eva Rosenberg "It completely hijacked my access to the Google search engine." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Domain Naming ==-- ~ Nathan Holley --== Image Protection "Curtain" ==-- ~ Pieter van der Vyver ~ Al Toman ======== NEW ====================================== From: Chris Allen Subject: Online -> Offline Interaction: Print Catalogs? To open a new topic, I'm interested in folks' experience with paper catalogs. We (www.gentlemansemporium.com) are an online-only store, and have been since inception. However, we consistently get catalog requests from customers, and I presume because we don't publish one, we're losing out on potential sales. Has anyone converted their website into a paper catalog? Are there services / software for producing these catalogs you would recommend or that we should avoid? Is it worth doing? Comments / suggestions welcome, and thanks in advance. Chris Allen Comment? -------- new post - new topic --------- From: Sandra Combs Subject: Low Quality Incoming Links We have a website for the visually impaired and have not submitted our URL to any link farms. But someone is putting VisionAWARE links at the bottom of link farm pages: Take a look at http://www.zscarinsurance.info/436426-91-0.html -- see the visionaware links at the bottom of the page? Similarly: http://www.kwcarinsurance.info/544411-91-0.html and http://www.kaonlinedegree.info/508892-91-0.html We have a lot of these kinds of links in our June statistics for links to us from outside. I'm afraid this will hurt our site with search engines because of the low quality links. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Sandra Combs http://www.visionaware.org Comment? -------- new post - new topic --------- From: Eva Rosenberg Subject: Post - need help Hi LEDers, I need some help. Clearly, this would be a post for the old HelpDesk, but I've let it go dormant. So I am hoping that some clever brilliant person here can help me. Last week, somehow, my computer got hit with a virus that did three things. 1) It slowed the computer down to a glacial crawl. 2) It completely hijacked my access to the Google search engine. I cannot access it, or Adsense, at all. 3) It kept resetting my home page to www.google.com Well, through a variety of virus / hijack software, I solved problems 1 and 3. But I can't solve #2. One clue I did find - in one of its virus checker paths, the CA Technologies Virus checker found TIBS C on the system - and said it was infected. The virus checker did not say it was removed or quarantined. And I can't find anything that will actually remove it. (My best source points to CA as the tool to remove it, but, I don't think it did.) Note: subsequent scans does not show the virus present. But I still cannot access Google. Any ideas? Thanks Eva Rosenberg One your Humble Guide. www.TaxMama.com www.TaxQuips.com Comment? ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Nathan Holley Subject: Domains - Multiples Pointing to Site > As soon as we start adding typo-similar > domain names don't we multiply the number > of 'duplicated' pages in the Google imagination? - DL Neil, LED Digest 2442 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1848/190/ There's a lot of misunderstanding about domain redirects and duplicate content filtering. The short answer is you can have as many different URLs pointing to your main site as you want. Just make sure they're redirected properly in your DNS so the URL field in the browser bar changes to reflect that. And don't worry too much about duplicate content penalties. This is really more of an issue for large, dynamic sites that end up with thousands upon thousands of stubs and template pages. For smaller sites, rewrite should be used as well but it's a "best prac" kinda thing not mission critical. A few have mentioned Google's Webmaster console -- yes it does allow you to select your preference for "www" and non versions. But that doesn't mean you ONLY need to do that. If you're going to make that selection, go ahead and take 2 minutes to add the proper code to your htaccess file. And while your at it, redirect all those other versions of your home page or disallow access to them with robots.txt. Cheers, Nathan Holley Comment? ============ Sponsor Message =========== Speaking of July 4th, did you know website content is a lot like fireworks? It either lights up the (cyber)sky, or it doesn't. Do your articles, product pages, and blogs have more fizzle than sizzle? Is your home page copy a dud? Visit http://GetWebContent.com/LED and get maximum bang for your buck. ============ Sponsor Message =========== -------- new post - new topic --------- From: Pieter van der Vyver Subject: Image protection Thank you for the feedback regarding a "No Copy" image preventer here: No right click script II (on images) http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/noright2.htm This alternate version of the no right click script targets only images, so right clicking is diabled only when attempting to save an image on the page. However, i am still looking for a.Psd curtain that I can put up in front of an image so that if a browser "save as" it will only be 1Kb of nothing (.psd). I have seen it on many web pages but for the life of me cannot recall at this moment Please spend some of your valuable time to let me know Waiting in anticipation to hear from your goodself :-) Regards Pieter van der Vyver Comment? -------- new post - same topic -------- From: Al Toman Subject: Transparent Curtain for Images Pete, This is how you 'curtain' your images. Though, keep in mind, anything that you digitize can be had very easily. Go to http://studio9.ws/scripts/mypicture.html The top image is Pete hard at work set into a table. The bottom image is Pete hard at work set into a css div tag. Your choice. Click on the web page to see the source document to get the code. In either case the pictures that you see are background images called mypicture.jpg. However, if you right click to save as or check the properties, you'll notice that the image that is being saved is called myimg.gif. Myimg.gif is a transparent image, hence, your curtain and that's what your image takers will get. This does not prevent anyone from screen capturing your image. Ho hum. Now, the picture taker can hyperlink to your image instead and use your bandwidth. So, if your web host permits it, create an .htaccess file such as: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule \.(jpg)$ - [F] Replace the mydomain.com with YOUR domain. Place the .htaccess file in the appropriate directory. That's that. No more hyperlinking. If you want the hyperlinker to get a dirty picture message you can serve them up a dirty picture message using: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/angryman.gif [R,L] Again, replace mydomain.com with YOUR domain and create and upload a picture called angryman.gif or anything else that you prefer. That's that. Al Toman studio9 web design Comment? ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by: GetWebContent.com The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. 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