Change DNS configuration and make it resolve to the Nabble server?

[enviroman]

Hi Hugo,

I am now preparing to publish a post or perhaps two regarding Nabble.com at
http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com/
and if you can provide some input it would be great for eg as to what you may like to see in that post

From what I see when the nabble forum is at sub-domain not in an iFrame, nabble only allow us to edit the CSS for fonts and colors but we can't add stuff like sidebar header footer right?

Peter

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]> wrote:

When I ping your "forum.mymalaysiareview.com" URL, I get this IP address: 74.125.47.121. This IP doesn't belong to Nabble. Maybe you could post a snapshot of your DNS configuration here so that I can take a look.

Official Nabble Administrator - we never ask for passwords.

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[Hugo <Nabble>]

I'm glad you solved the problem. Note that the email sent to you is not to activate anything, but to revert the change if something goes crazy with your DNS configuration. The idea is that you archive that email in your inbox and search for it when needed.

Besides that, I think now you understand that only a single A record is needed to setup the domain name. This is much simpler that what you tried first (CNAME records, etc.).

Just let me know if I can help you in any other way.

[Harvey]

Hugo ... a related question...

Will I still be able to embed the forum as it is here:

http://www.nyskiblog.com/p/harvey-road-forum.html

?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Yes, the domain name feature does not interfere with the embedding feature.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Sorry, only now I saw this post. See answers below.

enviroman wrote

I am now preparing to publish a post or perhaps two regarding Nabble.com at
http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com/
and if you can provide some input it would be great for eg as to what you
may like to see in that post

I think you should explain the truth, mainly because Nabble is very user-oriented. You may say that we are free and have a simple and clean interface.

enviroman wrote

From what I see when the nabble forum is at sub-domain not in an iFrame,
nabble only allow us to edit the CSS for fonts and colors but we can't add
stuff like sidebar header footer right?

This will be possible when we release the templates feature, which should happen in a few months. Users will have full control over the page HTML.

[Harvey]

Hugo - thanks for all your help on this.

[Peter Chen]

Hi Hugo

Currently preparing post about Nabble, almost finished.

Regarding Cname, it is unavoidable necessary to create the sub-domain, but now I know it has to point to ghs.google.com

Peter

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From: Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Change DNS configuration and make it resolve to the Nabble server?
To: "Peter Chen" <[hidden email]>
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 11:07 PM

I'm glad you solved the problem. Note that the email sent to you is not to activate anything, but to revert the change if something goes crazy with your DNS configuration. The idea is that you archive that email in your inbox and search for it when needed.

Besides that, I think now you understand that only a single A record is needed to setup the domain name. This is much simpler that what you tried first (CNAME records, etc.).

Just let me know if I can help you in any other way.

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[Hugo <Nabble>]

Thanks for the information, Peter.
I'm eager to see your post about Nabble.

[Harvey]

Not sure if this should go here or not.

I had three of my forum posts show up in Google results, then it went to two, and now its down to one.

I haven't been totally scientific about making changes. I did switch the "ignore" feature on and off for the title tags.

I also have a small amount of duplicate content. In other words I posted a sentence or two in the blog and then my "read more" link jumped to the forum.

Any ideas about why things that were indexed are now gone?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

The "ignore" flag shouldn't have affected that. Maybe you got a different rank for that page and can't find it in the first results. I don't believe google has removed it from its index.

[Blogger Aktif]

Nice discussion..

all these problem was resolved for me without any problem... 2 month ago...

please visit these website for more information about blogger custom domain and nabble forum..

1) http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2010/03/sub-domain-on-blogger-custom-domain.html

2) http://bloggerstop.net/2010/02/add-forum-to-your-bloggerblogspot-blog.html

3) just make redirection to embeded forum page in nabble setting

4) Or Embed Nabble in Standone blogspot blog which is > forum.mydomain.com..


My attempt: http://forum.bloggeraktif.com [http://forumbloggeraktif.blogspot.com/] - a standalone blogspot blog specialized for forum instead for pages like /p/forum.html

I think from view of SEO... forum.bloggeraktif.com is better than http://mydomain/p/forum.html

please share yours here...

Thank YOu..

[Harvey]

Blogger Aktif .. it was that same post on bloggerstop.net that set me off on the path to incorporating a forum on blogger. I've basically ended where you are with the custom subdomain, and while it seemed hard at the beginning, it's really not.  The embedded forum took a week, and then we embedded Anewspaper - basically the same process - it did in an hour or two.

I agree that the subdomain is better than the static page. For a few reasons. SEO included. Everything I've seen indicates that the subdomain is key for SEO.

I am using BOTH - a static page with an embedded forum and the embed forum is on a custom subdomain. I'd RATHER just use the subdomain on it's own.  It would not only be better for SEO, but you could use the forum on a mobile devise. AND - this is big to me - the forum load time would be much faster.

On it's own the Nabble Forum loads very quickly. But on my site - I am basically "hiding"  two sidebars that are loaded with widgets.  It's my understanding that just because you can't SEE them .. they are actually still loading. And you can see it in the forum load times.

So.... my question ...were you able, in blogger to figure a way to upload a separate template for your forum that isn't bogged down with widgets from your homepage?

Here's what I am trying

[Blogger Aktif]

Thank you Harvey44 for reply.

Yes, at first I'm also using static page like /p/forum.html BUT the loading time is very bad.

So.... my question ...were you able, in blogger to figure a way to upload a separate template for your forum that isn't bogged down with widgets from your homepage? 

I think that we cannot install more than 2 template for a blog.

Therefore, I just clone the parent template and installed in another [child] blogger blog [forumbloggeraktif.blogspot.com{http://forum.bloggeraktif.com}] and make some necessary adjustment.

I just removed the widgets from child blog and set CSS

#sidebar: display none;

AND  Change #content-wrapper: 600px to:

#content-wrapper: 1000px

AND
some minor changes.

So, the new child blogger blog was light without loading parents elements [script,widgets]. it is just a forum carrier.

[Harvey]

Interesting solution Blogger Aktif. I wonder about the SEO implications of having "one blog" on two URLs.

I'm not sure but I'm hoping that Nabble's release of "Templates" will allow me to take my subdomain and make it look exactly like my website (minus the widgets etc) so that I can stay with one domain, get the look I want, and have great load time.

Would like to hear Hugo's input on this.

If it's not possible - I may do exactly what you've done. Very clever.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Harvey44 wrote

I'm not sure but I'm hoping that Nabble's release of "Templates" will allow me to take my subdomain and make it look exactly like my website (minus the widgets etc) so that I can stay with one domain, get the look I want, and have great load time.

Would like to hear Hugo's input on this.

Yes, templates will let you do anything with the forum HTML page.

[Blogger Aktif]

Thank You again.

I can see your nabble forum url is [http://forum.nyskiblog.com/]

but mine: [myforum.bloggeraktif.com] why I'm using myforum.xxx.com instead forum.xxx.com

because forum.xx.com is reserved for forum.bloggeraktif.com [the child blogspot standalone templates]

Therefore, you can modify blogspot [forum.xx.com] templates as much you want and leave some small space for nabble forum for embedding. Make some minor changes for nabble forum through nabble admin panel.

you can create anything you want in context of styling.

ps: search engine will see me at: myforum.xxx.com and will be redirected to forum.xx.com

Sorry for my English.