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hi there, i just try weather display and i’m impressed by his functions!
i been able to setup a html page > with weather display.
but i noticed that, most of the informations are given as pictures.
as i know a bit about search engiens, i like to get a good position there for my country.
for this i need text text text informations.
so as i understand thats posibble with tags and xml.
i been able to get xml running, downside is that firefox is not able to phrase the information and the data will stay blank.
so i like to try the tags, BUT it seems like, that my knowlege of understanding is limited. i search the forum and read a lot about it, but i don’t get it.
sorry for that…but as i see othere people facing the same problem, i like to get a solution, what everybody can understand. :wink:

i read http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/wdhelp/ and i like to take this : Create your own custom page(s)

[i]Create a text file called wxlocal.htm in the folder that contains Weather Display

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Check out owntemplate.txt in your wdisplay directory for useful info about custom pages. [quote]Select

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hi

Weather Display will automatically create the wx.html from your wxlocal.html.

The switch on the “custom web page/individual dials” screen in “FTP/internet” setup from the control panel needs to be set to “ON”.

hope this helps

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Hi
some of the online help is out of date
I have just updated the list of tags, from the upto date file, owntemplate.txt, which is inluded in your files that come with WD

which online help web page is showing some incorrect information
(i.e about wxl.html), so that I can update that
thanks

also, if you use the customise internet and file creation setup (recommended), then you just simply set times to create and upload the wx.html file (you can set the remote file name too)
and you also set times to create and upload all your files too

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ok, i found and have fixed that help page
(i.e the mistake of the name of the wxlocal.htm instead of wxlocal.html (i have always wondered why people have got that wrong (I did not write that particular help page ))
:wink:

i am also gradualy writing a new help file:
http://www.weather-display.com/WDHELP.doc

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hi again and thanks for your reply!
i been able now to get the costums page done with tags!!!
it is so smart!!!
i will post my page + all informations, as i have done some work on it.
for now i test all tags and placements.
spend nearly all night on it
:lol:
but it is realy great and i hope i can help some other people later.
best regards
so long
vossen

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we look forward to seeing your custom webpage :slight_smile:

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so> after some time, i been able to show you some results.
as i said > it was importend for me to get a good ranking in the search engine google.

as i promised i will explain how you will get a better postion for your weather station, so that other people can find your webpage with the search engine.
here we go:
first see> what people search for.
i use this tool to find this out:
Keyword Suggestion Tool
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
type in the Phrase: for me it was > Mauritius
then Market: i used United Kingdom

click next and enter the code

for me i find out > that the best keyword combination was Weather in Mauritius. please be aware > keep the words are shown. not mauritius weather > wheater in mauritius!
wordtracker> takes his result from google> but it shows for free only the top10 result.
so as i know > i need to optimize on weather in mauritius.
i startet to setup the costums tags with wx.
as a search engine can’t read pictures, but the costums tags he can.
importend points are> look for the proper page title > i called the page weather in mauritius.
then make one h1 or h2 tag as title in the page. use the words again weather in mauritius, or weather in flic en flac mauritius.
at least all the words are in.
then on the body > add again a h2 tag with the word phrase.
put not a other h1 tag, as this will be to much.
and then add some links from your other weather page in it > link all of them together, a spider likes to spider, don’t let him stop :wink:

then place your weathersite on other pages, what are allready in his index from google.
then just wait, it takes some time, it took me ~a month?

so if you search today in google, for weather in mauritius, you will find my page on ~position 12 from 1.2 million.
http://www.google.com/search?q=weather+in+mauritius&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

please be aware> this position is not fixed and there is no garantie, on what i explaind.
but i believe when you do the basic as explained, you will get a better ranking.
all the best
and good luck
regards
vossen

ps. here is my page> http://www.info-mauritius.com/weather-wetter/wx2.html
pss> see my url too> try to get keywords in the url too!

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Wow - lots of good information here -
Can we also put this thread in the “creating web sites” forum?

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thanks, snowman, i hope people find it usefull.
the h1/h2 tag, as it is very big> you can bring it down with css, as i dit it, so it looks like normal text.
but seo is a big job, like a other hobby :wink:
but i can help to point to the right webpage, where you can learn more about it.
even this forum here is not search engine friendly, but you can do it and each topic will be able to get spidert and people will find this forum here under different keywords.
best regards
stefan