The quick website launch checklist
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The quick website launch checklist
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#2Wow, top of hackernews, never expected this. :)
Here is the spreadsheet I was using to think this post.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqqb8SO...
If you have something, add this here, I will do a follow up post, with additions or update this post.
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#3> 9. Has a robots.txt
> You may have a lot of things you do not want the world to know about. (Eg user uploaded media). Use robots.txt to hide them from search engines.
That's not what a robots.txt file is for. It doesn't hide files, if anything it makes files that you don't want the world to know about easier to find.
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#4> 9. Has a robots.txt > You may have a lot of things you do not want the world to know about. (Eg user uploaded media). Use robots.txt to hide them from search engines. That's not what a robots.txt file is for. It doesn't hide files, if anything it makes files that you don't want the world to know about easier to find.
True, what I want to say is.
If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth).
I should probably re-word that line, but I dont want to get too technical.
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#5> 9. Has a robots.txt > You may have a lot of things you do not want the world to know about. (Eg user uploaded media). Use robots.txt to hide them from search engines. That's not what a robots.txt file is for. It doesn't hide files, if anything it makes files that you don't want the world to know about easier to find.
True, what I want to say is. If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth). I should probably re-word that line, but I dont want to get too technical.
> If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth).
Bandwidth is cheap. Ranking poorly in search engines is not.
If you've got a ton of user uploaded media, you've potentially got a ton of content for Google to pick up on and rank you for.
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#6pingdom store passwords in plaintext: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865206
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#7pingdom store passwords in plaintext: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865206
That's ugly. But who cares? A sophisticated user (read, anyone using Pingdom) won't be using the same password for their Pingdom account and their email. Though the consequences if they did would be ugly.
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#8https://docs.google.com/a/agiliq.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq...
I few folks have emailed me with some great apps to do these things. I am tracking these here, and will publish these.
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#9I know the text says "... or equivalent software," but is there any great advantage between using Google Analytics or a hosted component on your own server?
I feel it's impolite to subject your users to be tracked by Google and other huge companies just because they visited your website.
Is there at least any tracking service that respects Mozilla's DNT[1]?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, what I want to say is. If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth). I should probably re-word that line, but I dont want to get too technical.
> If you have a ton of user uploaded media (and such), you probably want to not want SE to index everything. (For example to save bandwidth). Bandwidth is cheap. Ranking poorly in search engines is not. If you've got a ton of user uploaded media, you've potentially got a ton of content for Google to pick up on and rank you for.
If you aren't able to control user spam effectively, Google will think you are the spammer. (maybe another item should be: use nofollow on user links)