Upload Your Page
Contents
Set Up Page Information and Content
Integrate SBI!'s Built-in Functions
Upload Your Page
The first section lets you choose navigation and marketing options for your page. You can decide to...
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make this page a Tier 2 and then name the navigation button/menu item and put it on your NavBar (if you use ***NAVBAR***) or horizontal menu (if you use ***NAVBAR orientation=horizontal***)
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include this page in your RSS feed and on your Blog It! page.
Then you move on to upload the page.
When you upload your index.html page, it overwrites the original home page built via BlockBuilder, if you built one.
What if you want to revert to your original one? No problem. SBI! stores it in a database. Here's how to make the switch...
Go to Page Manager in Site Central. Click on the index.html file and select delete. Your BlockBuilder-built home page will replace it.
In the unlikely event that you change your mind once again, click on Upload Your Own HTML Page in Site Central and upload your index.html page.
Put This Page in Your Navigation?
SBI!'s NavBar displays buttons that link to Tier 2 pages. The horizontal navigation displays menu items that link to the Tier 2 pages. This is where you decide whether to put make the page a Tier 2 page by putting it on the NavBar or in the horizontal menu.
If you plan to use custom navigation, you should still mark it as a Tier 2 page, but don't name it. Marking it as a Tier 2 page gives it a higher priority in the XML sitemap SBI! creates for your site. This tells the engines that this page is more important relative to all the Tier 3 pages on your site.
The content of a Tier 2 page focuses on one of the profitable keywords from your Master Keyword List. It has another defining characteristic, though...
A Tier 2 page is a two-way or "hub" page. It links to and from your home page (Tier 1). It can link to related Tier 3 pages, other Tier 2 pages, and/or an income-generating destination (e.g., a merchant-partner's site).
In other words...
A Tier 2 is "one click" away from the home page, giving it higher visibility and easier access. A Tier 3 page is two clicks away from the home page.
- Add a check to the checkbox to make this a Tier 2 page.
- Name the button to create a button to add it to the ***NAVBAR*** navigation or to the ***NAVBAR orientation=horizontal*** navigation to create a menu item. If you use custom navigation, do not name it.
To make the page a Tier 2 page, add a check to the checkbox. If you want it to be a Tier 3 page, do not add a check.
Name the button/menu item. If you don't, the button/menu item will not be added to the navigation.
If you don't name the button, there will be no way for your visitors to navigate to this page (or its related Tier 3 pages) unless you use custom navigation. Once you've named the button, preview it to make sure that the name fits into the space provided.
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Make button names as compelling and as short as possible.
Add This Page to Your RSS Feed and Blog It! Page?
Your next option is whether to add this page to your RSS feed and Blog It! page.
If you're only making minor changes to the page (e.g., adding an image, making a simple format change, etc.), ignore this option. If this is a new page, or you added some valuable content, then you'll want to add it to your feed so that your RSS subscribers know about it, and so that your Blog It! page displays a link to the page.
- Add a check to the checkbox if you want this page added to your RSS feed and Blog It!.
Important Note: If you're making minor edits to an existing page, and want it left in the feed but do not want to update the feed, leave this with a check.
Then remove the checkmark from Update your RSS/Blog It! feed? on the success page.
If you plan to change an existing page to have a "noindex" meta tag, remember to remove it from your RSS feed by removing the check from the RSS feed and Blog It! page checkbox.
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If you require more information about RSS, visit the RSS section of TNT HQ for an overview. For more on how RSS/Blog It! works, return to Site Central and click on the RSS/Blog It! button and review the help pages there.
Set a Breadcumbs Label fo This Page
If you used the Breadcrumb Trail Library to build Tier 2 and Tier 4 breadcrumb trails, you can customize the crumb text (label) for each portion of a trail.
- Type or paste in the text you wan to use for this portion of the breadcrumb trail.
You do that here, by typing or pasting in the crumb text you want to use. Keep it as short as possible, while also being clear about what each page in the trail is about.
Disable Lazy Image Loading on this page?
Large images, or a lot of images, can slow down the loading of a page into your visitor's browser. And load time is a ranking factor at the search engines.
- Tick the checkbox to disable lazy loading of images.
If you activated lazy loading of images in the Site Optimizations tag of Site Central's Dashboard, you can turn it off on a page-by-page basis.
If you do not want to lazy load images on this page, tick the checkbox to disable it.
Disable Lazy Video Loading on this page?
Videos can slow down the loading of a page into your visitor's browser. And load time is a ranking factor at the search engines.
- Tick the checkbox to disable lazy loading of videos.
If you activated lazy loading of videos in the Site Optimizations tag of Site Central's Dashboard, you can turn it off on a page-by-page basis.
If you do not want to lazy load videos on this page, tick the checkbox to disable it.
Upload Your Page
The uploading process is straightforward...
- Click the Browse (Choose File in Safari) button to select the file to upload.
- Click on Upload Your HTML File to upload the file.
Use the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari) to select the correct HTML file from your hard drive. You'll see the file name displayed beside the button. Then click on the Upload Your HTML File button.
SBI! will transfer this file to our servers, scan it for SBI! Includes and present you with an upload success page. If the upload is successful, you'll go to the page that allows you to upload SBI! Includes, images and supporting files.
If there are problems with the uploaded file, you'll see one or more messages with steps to correct the problem(s).
Correct any problems and click on the Go Back & Re-Upload button. Upload the page again. If there are no problems, you'll go to the Includes, images and supporting files upload page.
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Before you browse and upload your HTML page, give one last thought to its file name. The name of the file (e.g., "specific-keyword.html") will not be of much interest to your human visitor. But the search engines might give you a ranking point or two if you word your file name correctly. (Your home page must have the file name "index.html," so this discussion does not apply to it.)
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Name your file with a single word (composed of only letters, numbers, and dashes -- no other characters and especially no dots or spaces), followed by the extension ".html" only. Include the Specific Keyword for this page, or some minor variation of it.
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And if your keyword is a two-or-more word phrase, join the words with dashes, or run them together (e.g., anguilla-beaches.html or anguillabeaches.html). You cannot use the same file name twice, but you can make it different by removing the dash.
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Naming a file is worth doing right. Develop the habit. It takes no extra time, and some engines just might add a few points for relevance if you do this.