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DerrickH's picture
Submitted by DerrickH on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 10:52.

Hello Everyone:

I use Dreamweaver MX2004 and built a site as a Dreamweaver template. Great for updates. Are there any SEO issues with using the template function in Dreamweaver? I thought I heard somewhere that there was.

Thanks...Derrick.

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Tough to say for sure

kensav's picture
Submitted by kensav on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 13:52.

Tough to say for sure without seeing the actual code. Anything you want to share and I can look at on page SEO stuff?

PM the url to me if you want.

-Ken

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www.twitter.com/kensavage

Dreamweaver templates are

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Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 15:44.

Dreamweaver templates are awesome. Like Ken said - if the template code is clean there shouldn't be any SEO issues. I think Dreamweaver writes better code than any other HTML editor out there.

Thanks guys. Ken, I may

DerrickH's picture
Submitted by DerrickH on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 11:38.

Thanks guys. Ken, I may take you up on that.

I don't know if this means anything, but my site never had a PageRank (I started it during PPC Classroom), but I noticed that the homepage is a PR2 now, while a few interior pages including my blog and main review/shopping pages are PR3's.

Is this an indication that things are looking good and indexing well with the search engines?

Derrick.
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PR2 or 3 means that the site

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Submitted by DutchBIP on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 18:27.

PR2 or 3 means that the site is indexed, Google does not have issues with it, but you still have to do quite some work on it :).

Richard
twitter.com/DutchBIP

Thanks Richard. This is the

DerrickH's picture
Submitted by DerrickH on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 19:06.

Thanks Richard. This is the site I'm planning on tweaking through this project.

Derrick.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

http://twitter.com/derrickh

Home page is PR2 and

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Submitted by kensav on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 04:25.

Home page is PR2 and interior pages are PR3?

I gotta see this. Usually it's the other way around. How many incoming links do you have coming in. I'm betting a low amount but stranger things have happened.

-Ken

got twitter?
www.twitter.com/kensavage

That what it shows

DerrickH's picture
Submitted by DerrickH on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 15:16.

I'm telling you Ken, I am the SEO man! (LOL) ; -)

I thought it was strange too. What's the easiest way to check in-bound links?

Derrick.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

http://twitter.com/derrickh

I use three different

Jeremy Palmer's picture
Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 15:27.

I use three different methods:

1 - Type "link:yourdomain.com" into Google (inaccurate)
2 - Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools and register your site (more accurate)
3 - Use Yahoo Site Explorer (more accurate)

Best,

Jeremy

Thanks

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Submitted by DerrickH on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 16:29.

Thanks Jeremy.

Derrick.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

http://twitter.com/derrickh

Content is what

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Submitted by jaairey on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 21:50.

Content is what matters!!

Using DW templates make sure that your published site is stripped of the template code. The extra code does not usually affect display but it does slow loading down. Faster load is always good.

Have site to be published placed in a new folder and save to there for FTP, and keep the template/editable site in the original folder.

Modify - templates - export without markup

Thanks. I'll try that

DerrickH's picture
Submitted by DerrickH on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 11:24.

Thanks. I'll try that out.

Derrick.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

http://twitter.com/derrickh

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