Site Sell: Building Pages

I spend quite a number of hours yesterday trying to figure out how to upload a web page with flash into my website managed by sitesell. I thought it was easy like what I usually do with my other website. It is not. They have a system to upload the web pages. The information are all stored in a hughe database. You cannot see the folders like a normal ftp website.

I have to upload a web page in one step and then they will ask me for the support files as required for the webpage. supporting files as in images and in this case, flash video for me. On top of that, you have to provide the full url (e.g. my url is http://www.advanced-excel.com/find_blank_cells.html) to the page. It is not like in any html editor where you the way to do it is to provide the file name since they reside in the same location. A painful experience. The advantage about this though is that you do not need to worry about organising your web folder. They are managed by the database. If you are a web designer, you know things can get really messy if you do not plan properly.

I also read through the warning they have provide if I were to upload my own webpages. They warn that if I were to use methods trick the search engine, I not only get banned by them but I will also affect their other customer websites. Because of this, I tend to think that there is more to it on how to achieve ranking in the search engine then just those they have mentioned. My suspicion is that there are some sort of internal linking that helps to move the page rank of websites hosted by them.