[jimi_d2006]

Hi, I'm a total noob. I made a website (http://www.utdesign.co.uk) for a recording studio that I'm getting work experience at. I used the 'Wix' website creator (http://www.wix.com) but the studio already bought a domain (or whatever) from 'www.JustHost.com'. So I copied the embedding code of the website I made and pasted it into the editor on the just host account using their 'add HTML' tool. The website showed up fine

The problem is that you can't find the website on search engines. JustHost uses website builders BTW. So in the 'Config' section on the builder/website editor, there is a option which says 'SEO Friendly:' with a dropdown box that has two options:

1. Link Add-on
2. Don't Use

There is a help box next to it which says to select 'yes' if you want your site to be SEO friendly. It then says to use this feature be sure that you server has 'mod_rewrite' modulle instaled. This is the only thing about search engines that I've found! I have no idea what to do?

On a side note, the 'Config' section has four tabs, Configuration, Meta tags, Analytics, and Access.

Please help oh wise ones!

P.S. What is the job title of someone who works in website designing / coding. Also, JustHost is utter cack and not easy to use. Thanks in advance.

[opensesame]

jimi_d2006, on 06 December 2011 - 12:36 PM, said:

Hi, I'm a total noob. I made a website (http://www.utdesign.co.uk) for a recording studio that I'm getting work experience at. I used the 'Wix' website creator (http://www.wix.com) but the studio already bought a domain (or whatever) from 'www.JustHost.com'. So I copied the embedding code of the website I made and pasted it into the editor on the just host account using their 'add HTML' tool. The website showed up fine

The problem is that you can't find the website on search engines. JustHost uses website builders BTW. So in the 'Config' section on the builder/website editor, there is a option which says 'SEO Friendly:' with a dropdown box that has two options:

1. Link Add-on
2. Don't Use

There is a help box next to it which says to select 'yes' if you want your site to be SEO friendly. It then says to use this feature be sure that you server has 'mod_rewrite' modulle instaled. This is the only thing about search engines that I've found! I have no idea what to do?

On a side note, the 'Config' section has four tabs, Configuration, Meta tags, Analytics, and Access.

Please help oh wise ones!

P.S. What is the job title of someone who works in website designing / coding. Also, JustHost is utter cack and not easy to use. Thanks in advance.

Its talking about rewriting dynamic urls to SEO friendly urls.

What its asking is does the server which hosts the site have mod_rewrite turned on, if it does then it will use the htaccess file to create the rewrite rules, if it does not then the htaccess file cant be used.

Open the config tab and tell me what's inside of it roughly.

Just to clear up what exactly it will do:

This url: yourwebsite.co.uk/posts.php?=web_design_london

will be rewritten to: yourwebsite.co.uk/posts/web_design_london/

Google does not read query strings.

[rallport]

jimi_d2006, on 06 December 2011 - 12:36 PM, said:

Note for future, don;t use website builders if you want a site will function as expected and be taken seriously.