New URL for My Son's Web Site

[blacky]

I finally have my son's web site set up so he can help manage it. It is easier to move from page to page to find products, pictures, knots, etc.

Let me know what you think.

http://nitrobaitco.googlepages.com/nitrobaitco.

By trial and error I got the link to work.

[FinsnFur]

The problem is, for some reason since that site was created using a google page creator, they want the (.) period at the end of that url.

You did included the period but it's part of your sentence and not the link.
Did that make any sense? And it's not your fault. Google knows what will take place when that url is pasted someplace where it becomes automatically clickable like a forum. The period gets dropped because the period is not part of a standard url...therefore rendering the url useless as far as being able to click it.

Why?...good question. Sounds like something that needs to be asked of google themselves. But my guess would be that it's because right now google is under going an unbelievably huge delemma with links on the web and where they stand with them.

Ya see google sells links to people to place on their sites and they can earn cash for each click those links take. They literally have a serious niche in the market there and would like nothing more then to stake claims of the whole thing. The problem is  webmasters and other internet gurus picked up on this technique and can cash in on selling links the same exact way....so they did.
More and more places are selling links and word started getting around that Google is getting undercut. Back in March/April Google threatened to offer a reward to webmasters that would report someone selling links.  It got real ugly and is only getting worse.

So my guess is, this is one of the tricks up googles sleeve to prevent this link from getting sold, or at least over published without them capitalizing on it as being sold from one of their own lists.

Of course there are ways around that 
Try this
http://nitrobaitco.googlepages.com/nitrobaitco. 

Even google isn't big enough to outwit 301,139,947 American Citizens 

[Hawks Feather]

Jim,

That worked just like Dynamite!  And took me to the Better than Dynamite site.

Jerry

[blacky]

I am not the sharpest tack in the box but it appears that the link he put in is the same as the one I did. Am I not holding my mouth right or something?

[FinsnFur]

Again... the period is not included as part of your link Blacky. Yours is white, indicating it's not.
When you paste that link into a forum or anywhere else that makes it automatically clickable, the period gets removed as far as being part of the link.
See the period at the end of the link I posted? It's not white is it?  It's part of the link now.

The link needs the period and google knows you cannot post it as is.

Here's a better example, maybe the period is losing you.

http://www.championtannery.com/smilies

http://www.championtannery.com/smilies

Both addresses are typed EXACTLY the same right?

Which one takes you to the Champion Tannery Smilies page?

But they both are exactly the same

[blacky]

I am really confused now. If I want to get it to work, do I type the link and the period in a color other than white?

[FinsnFur]

No changing the color wont do anything.
The color of the text for a link is usually dictated by the website's style sheet. In our case our style sheet tells the browser to display our links as blue.

That's how I knew that your whole link wasn't being used, because it wasnt all in blue.

I finally have my son's web site set up so he can help manage it

I would have thought you were aware of how this stuff worked Blacky. Setting up your sons web site.

[blacky]

Jim, I can do the simple stuff but the technical things are over my head as you can see.

Thank you for your help.

[FinsnFur]

No prob, let us know if you talk to Google about that. I'm real curious as to what they say.