Monday, 10 August 2009

Redirections

The payment process has been rewritten and now includes captcha. This helps prevent crackers from using the form in some kind of batch attack. I added the facility to upload 3 card images. This was a good step as now its something that is standard and I dont need to get customers to send their images by email. I think the max file size needs adjusting, but we will see how it goes.
After getting everything working, I decided I should do a web site backup, just in case... I used wget, which backed up most of the site. I used Filezilla to get the parts wget couldn't reach.
I set up the Solundrian.com site, because some company was trying to get me to pay hundreds of pounds to get my old domain name Solundria.com. When the domain became available again, for under 10 pounds, I quiuckly bought it. At the moment it has an experimental layout and uses different pages, but its just confusing matters. The SnappyBirthday.co.uk domain is also sitting doing nothing. I need to find out the best way to redirect these domains to solundrian.com
I found the script I needed for the redirect at Sebastion's Pamphlets. This blog looks like it is worth reading as it has a lot of sensible advice on search engines etc. It explains how to implement the redirect so Google will understand you are not trying anything dodgy by using:
meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"
I uploaded the script and it is working well. Here's hoping google finds it ok and that there are no problems.
Next I changed the snappybirthday.co.uk link to work in much the same way and pointed it to the Snappy Birthday Game page.

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