How robots can keep your site from being indexed on Google, Yahoo, top search engines

Yes, robots can keep your website from being indexed in the top search engines like Google and Yahoo… no, this is not a movie idea!  Don’t worry, you can fix it, there is an easy solution.  …Just to clarify first though, we are talking about robots – as in a robotx.txt file – in the root of your website, i.e. www.your-website.com/robots.txt .

If you want your website to be indexed – all of your webpages – make sure you don’t have a robots.txt file uploaded to your server – the easiest solution is to just delete the file if it exists in the “httpdocs” or “www” folder on your server (i.e. the root).  The robots.txt file tells search engine robots what pages not to spider and index.  Respectable search engines like Google and Yahoo will honor your request and not index those webpages on their search engine.  In fact, if you have this in your robots.txt file, the search engines will not list any of your webpages:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

“User-agent” field is for the list of search engine names (separated by commas) - “*” denotes all search engines.  “Disallow” is for the list of webpages not to index (separated by commas), “/” denoting your whole website.

Note that the robots.txt file doesn’t force search engines to comply with your request, and also that your website robots.txt file is viewable to the public in the internet browser.  So, it is best to use other methods to restrict access to your website or certain webpages of your website – our favorite is the members app and page access tool in Ultimate Web Builder software!  We use php to do the behind-the-scenes work for you.

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Win A Free Ultimate Web Builder Software Contest begins now…!

The Ultimate Web Builder Demo has been upgraded to latest release of Ultimate Web Builder software, version 2.6, hosted accounts have been upgraded, and the download file in the Downloads Section has been updated….  We have added more tutorials to the User Manual for the new upgraded features (and adding more)…

And… the Win A Free Ultimate Web Builder Software Contest also begins now!  Check out the Contest details, how to enter and how to win, on the Contest tab of the Ultimate Web Builder website.

Enter YouTube Contest to Win!It’s Easy (and fun)!

1) Create a YouTube video showing:
      (A) Why you want to use Ultimate Web Builder and,
      (B) What website you want to create with it.
**Make sure to include Ultimate Web Builder and
http://www.redesigns.org/web-builder in your video description on youtube.com to qualify.
 
2) Then, fill in the entry form to enter… 

Voters on submitted videos will choose the winner!

Who Will win? Anyone ages 18+ can enter! Top winner gets Ultimate Web Builder software FREE, next top 10 win 50% off coupon!

For details, go to the Ultimate Web Builder Contest page: http://www.redesigns.org/web-builder/contest.php

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Social Networking Website App / Members App Upgrade!

The Ultimate Web Builder 2.6 software upgrade is here!  Check out the built-in social networking website app and expanded members app now on the Ultimate Web Builder Demo online! 

Hosted accounts: We will be upgrading accounts in the next few days!
Those upgrading their own accounts on their own servers: We will be releasing the software upgraded version for download in the Downloads Area in the next few days!

Want Ultimate Web Builder software for free?  We will be rolling out the anticipated contest this coming week…so be sure to Like us on Facebook and subscribe to our mailing list to get the news!

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Want website builder software FREE? Enter contest to win!

Are you looking for free website builder software, but not happy with the quality, the limitations, the low level of flexibility of the free software available online?  For those looking for top quality free, RE Designs is planning to launch a contest soon, for one lucky person to win Ultimate Web Builder software for free, voted by the community.  The next 10 people with the highest votes will win 50% off Ultimate Web Builder software.

We are planning to start the contest after the release of the next Ultimate Web Builder software upgrade.  To hear about the contest rules and details, and when the contest starts and ends, join our mailing list, or follow us on this blog, or on Facebook.

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Software Built-In Members App/Social Networking App Upgrade Coming Soon!

Ultimate Web Builder software will be releasing an upgrade soon, expanding the current built-in Members App, and adding a built-in Social Network App.  Now, it will be even easier to have your own social networking website! … Again, no programming or coding experience required!  And your website doesn’t have to look like everyone else’s because you can customize!!

Here are some of the features the Ultimate Web Builder sftware upgrade is scheduled to include:

1) Registration Form / Edit Profile Form Features:
a) Choose which fields to include in the initial registration form, and which fields to just include in the edit profile form.
b) Easily add a countries menu, or a date field with month/day/year menus.
c) Choose how to denote required form fields (you already can specify which fields are required in the software)
d) Choose whether to allow Username changes or not
e) Specify unallowed Usernames, set username minimum and maximum lengths
f) Specify password minimum and maximum lengths
g) Require Email confirmation when member requests email change on Edit Profile form
h) Use member avatars / profile pictures.  Upload avatars that members can choose from; members can also upload their own avatar/profile picture.
i) Privacy Options – Set which member profile form fields have privacy options, and what is the default privacy setting.

2) Member Public Profile Page
a) Use the default public profile page, or customize your own formatting using provided Placeholder Text for each field, i.e. profile picture, username, etc., and display member’s fans, and who member has fanned.
b) Members can Fan, Email, Block, Report member on the member public profile page if you have turned on these features
c) Choose to also display member Join Date, Login Date, and if they’re online (includes optional privacy setting too).

3) Fans Feature
a) Members can be a Fan of each other.
b) Display member fans / who member has fanned on Public Profile Page
c) Provide option for member to be emailed when they get a new fan.

4) Email/Private Messaging Feature
a) Members can email/private message each other.  Easily set-up member’s inbox page and sent box.
b) Members can reply to messages. and forward messages, star messages, mark messages as unread/read, create folders, move messages to different folders, and report messages/block users from the Inbox/Sent Box Pages
c) Display new messages icon when logged in member has new unread messages
d) Provide option for member to be emailed when they get a new private message.

5) Email Notifications
a) Set up email notification options for when member gets a new fan, or receives a new private message, and more.

6) Timezone / Date Formatting
a) Choose to allow members to select their timezone and when logged in the display times will be according to their selected timezone
b) You can choose different date format options, including displaying dates in a duration format, i.e. user logged in 30 minutes ago.
c) Manage timezones, which timezones to use, and date order/date language.

7) Page Commenting/Rating Feature
a) Activate a Comments section on any of your webpages, where members, or optionally website visitors, can post comments, and also ratings.

Everything us customizeable … from the formatting to the language used… to the icons … to the styling… all from your Admin Panel.  Sign up to our mailing list to get emailed when the Ultimate Web Builder upgrade is released!

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Get the latest software coupon codes & discount news by joining the mailing list!

Find out when there’s a special promotion, sale, or coupon code for Ultimate Web Builder software by joining our mailing list!  It’s free!

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Easiest website builder with lots of features vs “drag & drop” website builders

Easiest website builder with lots of features – That’s how you can describe Ultimate Web Builder.  If you know how to use Word for creating a document, you can certainly create your own awesome website with Ultimate Web Builder software.  No programming necessary and no experience required.  Want people to be able to send you email through your website?  Create a contact form and copy/paste it into your webpage where you want it in minutes.  Want to allow website visitors interested in your product or services to subscribe to your mailers?  Create a mailing list form for your website in minutes.  You can create, send, and save html mailers without knowing html.  Want a membership website, a community website, a social networking website?  Allow members to register with a customized membership form … in minutes.  Have photos to show off?  Create an awesome photo gallery or photo slideshow for your website in minutes – even if you have lots of photos, because there is a batch upload tool… and even if you want your photos watermarked or have a copyright logo on the photos, because there is a batch photo watermarking tool too.  Want to be on the first page of Google and Yahoo?  Use the built-in SEO (search engine optimization) tool to get the top Google Page Rank.  Need to make some money off your website traffic?  Add Google ads or Yahoo ads to monetize your website in minutes.  Set up an affiliate system for your e-commerce website to increase sales in minutes.  All this without any web programming knowledge or experience.  Ultimate Web Builder has so many built-in apps and features, and best thing is that you don’t have to pay for each app/feature individually – it’s all included, and all apps & features work together seamlessly.

Wondering if you should lean towards a software labelled as a drag & drop website builder?  Drag and drop means you can drag what item you want, and drop it in where you want it.  Sounds simple enough, but what functionality and design features are you sacrificing?  Where do you configure and customize??  Where can you exercise your creativity and uniqueness?  You don’t have to settle for easy website builder software that is too simple in the sense that you are so limited both in functionalities and design.  On the Ultimate Web Builder software Admin Panel there is copying/pasting of elements on the Add/Edit Pages, where you can play around with elements, and there are lots of configuration/customization options that you can choose to take advantage of.  You can’t drag and drop specfic language you want to use on your website – you want to type that.  You can color pick everything.  Format everything.  So many options, and so easy to use.  Don’t limit yourself with the so-called self labelled “drag & drop” website builders – with Ultimate Web Builder you can feel confident that the software can be used for ANY TYPE of website – no matter how complex.  If necessary, you can add code – any type of code – not just edit html/css for styling – if you want.  If you want a Facebook App for example, just add the Facebook Connect code.  Ultimate Web Builder software saves you lots of time and money in the website development process.

Play around with the Ultimate Web Builder software Online Demo and take your free test drive – a free software trial without having to provide any contact or billing info… certainly no credit card info!  You will be amazed how much you can do with the best, easiest, and fastest website builder software on the market.  Check out our CNET reviews!

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Wild Apricot membership website builder review – Paid SEO, Security Issues, Lack of Flexibility

Wild Apricot targets non profit organizations, clubs, and associations wanting an easy and affordable website builder they can use to organize events and register members – i.e. a membership management software / website builder.  But how affordable is the website builder?  If you opt to use the Free Plan, your website not only must display two lines of multiple advertising links to Wild Apricot and its features at the bottom of each of your webpages, but you also don’t get to use your own domain name (www.your-organization.org), and you don’t get SEO (search engine optimization).  You also don’t get many of the membership website builder features unless you pay $25/month…. want all of the features, but still restricted with size limits, you must upgrade to what’s listed as their most popular plan, the Community Subscription Plan , where you must pay double that at least $50/month… Even at the top Enterprise Level at $200/month you only get 1..6 GB overall storage disk space.  You will not find the same amount of flexibility on a hosted website builder software vs a website builder software where you can choose your own web host.  Compare Wild Apricot to Ultimate Web Builder web hosting (which you are not forced to use but can choose to use with the software) – for $20/month you get UNLIMITED storage disk space.  You also get free professional installation of any software updates, so you don’t lose on hosted website builder software services.  While on Wild Apricot you save money because there is no set up fee and you don’t have to pay for the website builder software itself, as it is a hosted website builder service, you are paying for it each month, actually costing you more, and giving you less.

Visibility is very important for any website, you want to be found.  If you can’t stay in business without customers and web surfers finding your website and knowing about you, you need to be found.  Organic search engine results (website visitors find your website by typing search keywords/phrases vs clicking on a search engine/website paid ad) are especially important for non profit organizations and small clubs and associations that don’t have a huge budget to advertise and promote their great cause and services.  Everyone wants to take advantage of the SEO (search engine optimization) to do’s – why pay ten cents or a dollar for every click to your website when you can get it for free.  Unfortunately, a huge red flag with the Wild Apricot website builder free subscription plan is SEO!!  You get no search engine optimization with the free Wild Apricot website builder plan except for the page title meta tag and the actual text content of your website.  No page keyword meta tags, no page description meta tags, and most visible to website visitors on your website: No unique domain name and no unique page urls.  Every page on your website will be: http://…/Default.aspx?pageId=[a bunch of numbers].  Who wants that?  If you check out the Wild Apricot website, you will find that Wild Apricot company doesn’t want that either!  The Wild Apricot website page URLs are unique for each page, filled with SEO keywords.  The Wild Apricot website has meta keywords and meta description too.  Is your website less important?

With Ultimate Web Builder software, you get to choose not just your page meta title, but also your page meta keywords, page meta description, AND your page URL!  One-time fee for the website builder software, and use it on any web host you choose that satisfies the server requirements.   Ultimate Web Builder software has a built-in SEO tool – the same SEO tool we use and the SAME website builder software we use on our own website and on our client websites.  Quality is Quality.  Read more on SEO: SEO Friendly URLs – Better Search Engine Ranking.

Some webpages you want to be found, some webpages, or documents, or photos you don’t want to be found, you want to keep private, or members only access…or perhaps even select members access only.  Unfortunately, while you can set webpages on your Wild Apricot website secure and private, you cannot be so sure with documents or photos you are linking to on those webpages.  In fact, if someone goes to the url for those “secure” and “private” documents and photos, and do not have the specified member access, it’s okay – they will get access.  Probably not OK for you.

What kind of security do you get with Ultimate Web Builder software?  If you want to keep your downloadable files secure, you can really keep them secure.  There is no url for website visitors to enter and be able to access your secure files – they have to have your specified member access or they will get an Access Denied message, which like the rest of your website you can customize.  How is this possible?  Ultimate Web Builder software doesn’t store your secure files in the Files Manager of the server.

Ultimate Web Builder software has been built as an all-in-one software with one price for all the features – it is not just a membership website builder software, it is also an e-commerce website builder software, a photo portfolio website builder software, and an anything you want it to be website builder software.  Ultimate Web Builder software can be used as the base and foundation of any type of website, from social networking websites to Facebook apps too.  You will save lots of time and money and enjoy QUALITY, FLEXIBLIITY, and a DYNAMIC website.

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Flashy photo galleries and slideshows that work on ipad & smart phones too!

You want all that Flash.  You want your website to be interesting.  But you want your website to be user friendly, and accessible to website visitors on any type of computer they are connected to the Internet with – including the newest “computers”, ipad and smart phones.  And, you don’t want to sacrifice SEO (search engine optimization) – i.e. top Google/Yahoo search engine ranking.  You can still have “all that jazz” with Ultimate Web Builder photos app.

You can easily create and configure flashy photo galleries and slideshows that not only look interesting and awesome, but also work on ipad and smart phones, and are great for SEO!! Plus quicker page loading than the standard Flash website.  How do we do it?  Clean coding with javascript runs the engine – the better alternative to Flash.  Use your Ultimate Web Builder Admin Panel batch upload photos tool to easily upload hundreds of photos to a photo category – you can even securely batch watermark the photos if you want (and batch reverse watermark).  Use the Add/Edit Photo Category pages to configure the photo gallery / slideshow.  You can choose the sizing, formatting, options to use thumbnails, the thumbnails layout, thumbnails sizing, choose to have a controls menu, auto play, play photos in random order, or play photos in the order you specify, choose whether the photos enlarge with a overlay pop-up window, or to redirect the page to another page, or the photo’s e-commerce item page, and of course perhaps most fun of all, choose the animation!  There are several photo gallery / slideshow animation types to choose from, including a video animation that makes your photos looks like a video.  Customize the speed of the animation and the transition duration.  With all the configurations available, there are unlimited possibilities.  Awesome for photographers, designers, architects, contractors, anyone wanting an awesome way to display their portfolio … anyone wanting an awesome website!

Related: User Manual, Photos Management/Slideshows & Galleries Tutorial

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Photographers: protect your photos on your website easily with Ultimate Web Builder watermarking photos app!

If you are a photographer wanting to sell your photos online, then you especially will want to protect your photos on your website.  If you heard that there is no way to protect your photos online – don’t worry – it’s not true.  You can dynamically and easily – on a batch basis, with easy reversal too – watermark your photos with the Ultimate Web Builder photos watermarking app.  And website visitors will not be able to unwatermark your photos by finding the url of your photo without the watermark – the unwatermarked photo is not accessible to website visitors through this process – you can only access the original photo via your Admin Panel, if you choose to save the original photo during the watermarking process, for easy watermarking reversal.  The watermarking app allows you to choose the watermark position on the photo, the transparency of the watermark, and the watermark image itself.

Say you want to make your original unwatermarked photos accessible to customers to buy and download online automatically – even with such a streamlined e-commerce downloads setup you do not have to risk your originals being accessible to users without purchase.  How is it done?  Just create an e-commerce item for each photo you want to be downloadable without a watermark after purchase.  Display the watermarked image in the Item Description.  Upload the original unwatermarked photo into the After Purchase Access Download File section.  After a user’s purchase is confirmed via PayPal, they can automatically download the file.  You can also set up the e-commerce process so that it is manual, confirmed by the Admin (does not require PayPal).

Another great feature of the Ultimate Web Builder photos app is that you can create awesome photo galleries, and automatically link each photo to its Item page – makes for a very interesting homepage and category pages!  Moreover, these photo galleries/slideshows will work on ipad and smart phones too!  We use javascript for Flask like animations – great for SEO (search engine optimization) too!

You want to show you are original – best to use the original website builder Ultimate Web Builder where YOU build your own “template” – don’t risk someone else’s website looking like yours!  Security – Flexibility – Easy & Dynamic – Style & Function – Ultimate Web Builder is the website building – and designing – software for you!

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