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TypePad: Remember The Publicize Tab

As most of you know, I run a few different blogs,  some with WordPress.org, and some with TypePad.  I just had one of those "Duhhhh..." Moments with one of the newer blogs on TypePad.

I was tweaking stuff, and in the process, I happened to look at the source code and saw this:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

Huh?????  I certainly wouldn't intentionally tell a search engine robot it wasn't welcome.  Then I remembered.  Usually when I'm first building a site with TypePad, I leave the "Publicize this Weblog" option checked "no".  I'd forgotten to change that to "yes" when I finished the building part.  Ooops.

With TypePad, the "Publicize this Weblog" tool is found under Weblogs -> Configure -> Publicity

 

And you want to be sure you choose "Yes" under "Publicity Preferences".  Scroll further down on the "Publicity Preferences" screen, and you can edit keywords and meta tags, too.

Checking "No" at "Publicize this Weblog" generates the "nofollow" code.

Guess I'll need to wait a little longer before that new blog shows up on anybody's radar :-)

9 comments • Cheryl Johnson • April 19 2008 03:02PM

Comments

Nice blog about whatever it is.  I have no idea what you were discussing.  Maybe you could enlighten me because it sounds like a toll to use for blogging, MAYBE?  There are so many of us who are new to all this and old enough to remember that a Type Pad was a note tablet you doodled on when you were contemplating something like "omphealoskepsisism".
Posted by L. Wayne Denton I HAVE A HANDLE ON YOUR MARKET! ! ! (Denton Properties, Inc.) about 4 years ago

Wayne -- TypePad and Wordpress are both blogging platforms used to create individual blogs outside of Active Rain.  There are pros and cons to both ... and staunch supporters in both camps.

There is a very active WordPress Group here on Active Rain.  And a not-so-active TypePad Group and don't miss the "My Other Blog Is" group

 

omphealoskepsisism  .... Ok... It didn't Google ...l What is it?  :-)

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA about 4 years ago

Hi Cheryl 

I just stopped in to say hello. I haven't even thought of approaching typepad.  Wordpress is headache enough.  Which do you prefer? 

Posted by Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Downing-Frye Realty, Bonita Springs, FL) about 4 years ago

Chris, Hi!

Truth to be told, for me, TypePad is more logical and much easier.  For example, you ever try to hack a WordPress Theme to make wider columns? ... like this  http://activerain.com/blogsview/465469/Modifying-A-WordPress-Theme  ...

Well, hell, the same thing can be done in TypePad's  custom templates with about three clicks, and no coding.  

With coding, I can make TypePad jump through all kinds of hoops. 

What TypePad doesn't do, though ... is run PHP .... for example, if I wanted to randomly shuffle my contributor list on http://www.nelalive.net/ like Greg does on http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/  I'd be SOL.  But I decided NELA could live with a static contributor list.

 

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA about 4 years ago
Hi CJ, That is a great guideline and one I would bet most people miss the first time around. Or at least until the blog doesn't show up and they begin the hunt for hours and hours to figure out why. I remember just a year ago when I would have asked the same question that L. Wayne asked. Isn't it just amazing what we have learned. Even a year ago, I suspect that most of us were still learning at a rapid rate. In a year or two when most of the others will start blogging. I wonder what they will need to learn and how long it will take them to do the many things we are learning in the here and now.
Posted by San Diego Real Estate Voice authored by William Johnson GRI CRS e-Pro CDPE (RE/MAX Associates) about 4 years ago

Hey, CJ  I missed the part where you can edit meta tags and keywords.  It's not real obvious to me where that is.

One thing about the "Advanced Templates" on TypePad is that you can't just plug in any old widget as you can do with their pre-designed templates.  You kinda have to know code and CSS.  Not everybody is so savvy.

I'm a TypePad user, though, and perfectly happy. 

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Ooops!  Sorry, CJ. I went back and looked and saw the meta tags and keywords edit box, 

Posted by Ken Montville -- the MD Suburbs of DC (RE/MAX Advantage Realty) about 4 years ago

Ken --

Yeah, the keyword box is down at the very bottom of that screen, easy to miss.

 

BTW -- With Advanced Templates you can just copy and paste the widget code into a sidebar.  Open up the current design template list, click on one of the sidebars....

......  and paste in the widget code  (FYI this is Google Adsense code)

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA about 4 years ago

I HATE TO BOTHER YOU BUT WHEN I TRY TO MAP MY DOMAIN WITH TYPEPAD I DONT KNOW WHAT IM DOING WRONG CAUSE WHEN I TYPE MY DOMAIN NAME IN THE ADDRESS BAR ALL I GET IS THIS WEB SITE COMING SOON HERES MY EMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU WANT TO GET BACK TO ME zaftig_zaf2000@yahoo

hope to here from you

Posted by AMPARO about 4 years ago

Amparo,
 
Sometimes it takes a few hours for the mapping to process ....  GoDaddy's instructions say up to 24 hours .... did you just recently do the mapping?


If case you didn't see it, here's a pdf of my step-by-step that was posted in Active Rain a long time ago.  Maybe a small step by missed somewhere along the line? 

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA about 4 years ago

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