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Overview of Upload Your Own HTML

The Upload Your Own HTML module combines the freedom to build your pages in an HTML editor with the power of SBI!'s database and its traffic-building systems. You work on the creative side of things (Look & Feel, content) and let SBI! look after the technical side.

Please keep in mind, however, that you are responsible for the HTML coding on your pages. Like any Web host, it's not possible for SiteSell Support to act as HTML or javascript (etc.) consultants.

There are three steps to successfully uploading and building each of your pages...

Step 1 -- Preparing Your Page

Step 1 is, by far, the most important. And it doesn't happen in SBI!. It takes place on your computer and in your HTML editor.

In order to make best use of both your editor and SBI!, you need to follow a set of requirements for using the Upload Your Own HTML module.

Be sure to read all the Step 1 help before you start building your first page, since this is where you learn about these requirements, and the various features this module offers.

The requirements are listed in the Integration Guidelines. There you'll read about the types of files you can upload, the folder structure you need to use, and how to add tracking to outgoing links.

Next you'll learn about each of the various features and how to use each one. They include...

• The ***NAVBAR*** and ***TOC*** tags, for adding the SBI! NavBar to your pages, and for adding the Table of Contents to your home page
• SBI! Includes
• The ***SOCIALIZEIT*** tag, for adding Socialize It! to your pages
• The ***RSSIT*** tag, for adding the RSS box to your pages when using a custom NavBar
• MailOut Manager's E-zine Opt-in Form
• Form Build It! Forms
• Form Build It! Thank You Pages
• Content 2.0 Invitations
• The Content 2.0 Utility Page

Step 2 -- Uploading Your Page

Step 2 asks you three questions that will affect each page. Then it walks you through the selecting/uploading process.

Page Information and Options include the following...

• What you need to do if this page is your home page.
• Choosing whether you want to add this page to your NavBar and/or TOC (only if you plan to use the ***NAVBAR*** and/or ***TOC*** tag). This makes the uploaded page a TIER 2 page.
• Choosing whether you want this page included in your RSS feed and your Blog It! page (this option appears only if you've set up RSS/Blog It!).

The help for selecting and uploading a page provides tips on naming your page file, and how to upload it to the SBI! server and database.

Step 3 -- Uploading Images and Supporting Files

In Step 3, you upload any images and other files associated with this page. Other files include CSS files, javascript files, PDFs, and media files (audio and video files).

The Canonical Tag

There can be several different "versions" of each of your pages, at least in the eyes of the Search Engines...

• www.domain-name.com and domain-name.com
• www.domain-name.com, www.domain-name.com/ and www.domain-name.com/index.html
• and other combinations.

So Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search) and Ask have all adopted a way for you to ensure that only one version of each of your pages is indexed and ranked...

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain-name.com"/> for the home page and
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain-name.com/file-name.html"/> for TIER 2 and 3 pages.

You place this tag on the one page that you want the engines to index. The good news is that SBI! automatically adds this tag to each of your uploaded pages. There's nothing for you to do.

Unless...

If, for some reason, you have several versions of the same page (or almost exactly the same), you can manually add (in your HTML editor) the canonical tag for the page you want indexed into the head section of all the duplicate pages.

If, for example, www.domain-name.com/a.html is the page you want indexed, you would add <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain-name.com/a.html"/> into the head section of...

• www.domain-name.com/b.html
• www.domain-name.com/c.html
• www.domain-name.com/ab.html
• www.domain-name.com/bc.html
• etc.

This will ensure that only www.domain-name.com/a.html is indexed and ranked by the engines, thereby increasing that page's rank, since the content's ranking is not being split among several pages.

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