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Website grader couldn't find my site hosted blog at www.siebenthalercreative.com/blog/. I have the folder set to 'cloak' in dreamweaver; does this render it invisible to crawlers?

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Looks like Website grader doesn't much like your splash screen, either. – Nathan Lowell Jan 14 at 15:00
That I know about - obviously swf, which I'm not changing for now. I'm just now finishing conversion from frames to page, tables to css, and will work out individual dscp as time allows. My main market is advertising to the powersports market. Google search gets me page one, number two, yahoo a couple pages in, so I'm okay with that. thanks – John Jan 17 at 19:52

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It has nothing to do with cloaking. You are missing your blog feed link on your home page. You need to add the feed link in the section in the homepage html in order for the crawlers, like hubspot website grader and google, to be able to fetch your blog. Otherwise you have effectively "hidden" it. The other option which is less desirable is to put the feedlink in your sitemap.

The syntax is:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="put your blog feed URL here" title="RSS" />

Example - this is the one for my homepage.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KlocworkNewsfeed.rss" title="RSS" />

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Really appreciate your taking time to finesse this for me. Code added per yr site, just under the css link: <link href="../css/2col-800px.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="siebenthalercreative.com/blog/?feed=rss2"; title="RSS" /> so will see what happens next. Thanks again to both for your time and interest. – John Jan 17 at 19:36
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HI John,

Website Grader is not the tool you should be using, HubSpot has another tool called Blog Grader, and it can be found here:

http://blog.grader.com/

David Aimi

Directory of Technology - iiCREATiVE - Communications that WORK! - http://www.iiCREATiVE.com

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Thanks! From my results, not sure I understand what the next step shoud be based on the following: Feed vs. Web We detected that your feed doesn't reflect your real website. This affects your blog visibility to search engines and gives false message to your readers. I've implemented the blog rss href on my home page per above - will that work? – John Jan 17 at 19:34

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