For Mirror Site Operators

[Joan Girones]

Mirror site operators – in English or translated – should register on Starship Asterisk and sign up for this discuss to receive email notifications about

- fixes needs to be made for a concrete APOD

- how to edit daily APOD to better positioning on searchers

- any topic about APOD edition and publishing


Please, feel free to reply any post published on this topic.
Joan Gironès

[Joan Girones]

APOD uses the meta-tag “keywords”, as well some mirror sites, mainly those in English.

Google itself claims that its searcher practically ignores the meta "keywords".
Please, take a look to these videos from “Google Webmaster Help”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7IPbnmvVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_euoDRk1qN0

Other searchers act as the same way.

It may results interesting this brief text from a SEO consulting: http://www.highrankings.com/metakeyword

Certainly, and not only for Google, it's more important the meta-tag "description", but the main indexing criteria are:

- the “Title” tag

- the text page content itself

Despite it could seems a waste of time take attention of this meta-tag - even use it - it is not sure at all that all searchers ignore “keywords” meta-tag.

So, if do you use “keywords”, maybe is fine to remember its main three “old rules”; they are really old but I will use the present time:

A “keyword”:

- is case sensitive

- must to appear on the page text contain

- if they are more than one keyword, must to be separated by space and coma

As ever, any comment or controversy will be welcomed.

[Joan Girones]

Hello,

On from http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap100929.html, the link from "nerve of steel" returns the message “Image has expired, sorry. Please visit pixdaus.com and get new link” - http://pixdaus.com/pixdaus.png.

From my Catalan version draw still shows the right image: http://pixdaus.com/pics/z56dEGDRJUayBXb28R.jpg

Possibly it's because from http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap100929.html had been clicked more times and there is some kind of limit on the clicks number.

Any feedback about this topic, posted on this discuss, will be welcomed.

Thanks.

[tomasz]

I've got the same: "Image has expired"

Regards,
Tomasz

[bystander]

replace http://pixdaus.com/pics/z56dEGDRJUayBXb28R.jpg
with http://obviousmag.org/archives/uploads/ ... _hine.jpeg

[Joan Girones]

Fine.
Thanks!

[Joan Girones]

Hello,

There is still a problem with the new, and still beta, Spitzer Space Telescope web site (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/).

As a suggestion, you can use the following alternate links’ target:

“Spitzer Space Telescope” - http://legacy.spitzer.caltech.edu/index.shtml

“known as coreshine” - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... index.html

“scattering light”- http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13409

Best regards.

[Joan Girones]

Right now the new Spitzer Space Telescope web site- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ is running again.

[Joan Girones]

There is an interesting video about Gliese 581g, released from NASA-TV, which you can link from explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqhkfIrJ_Ic .

[Joan Girones]

Hello,


There you are another opinion about this topic.

http://www.highrankings.com/no-metas-286

Bye,

[Joan Girones]

The title reminds a classic sci-fi movie: "It Came from Outer Space" (1953).

If do you like it, could be funny to include a link on the explanation like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFsW4-FDWw

Joan

[Joan Girones]

There is an error on the link of "first decade".

Is - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stati ... g/10years.


Could to be - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stati ... years.html

Joan

[Joan Girones]

The link of “Northern Coal Sack” doesn’t have any target:

<a href="">Northern Coal Sack</a>

Possibly the right one might be APOD October 23, 2003, “Cygnus Nebulosities”.

[bystander]

Happy Birthday, Joan!

[Joan Girones]

Just I case, despite APOD editors had been warned, take care about the link on “geocentric”.

There is a mistype: the wrong target is “ap0904171.html” and the right one is “ap090417.html”.

[Joan Girones]

There is a mistype on the link of Credit "Tamas Ladanyi":

The wrong target is: http://http//www.twanight.org/ladanyi

The right one is: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photogr ... %20Ladanyi

[bystander]

There is a mistype on the link of Credit "Tamas Ladanyi":

The wrong target is: http://http//www.twanight.org/ladanyi

The right one is: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photogr ... %20Ladanyi

http://www.twanight.org/ladanyi works just fine (remove http//).

[Joan Girones]

http://www.twanight.org/ladanyi works just fine (remove http//).

Also that's right.

Thanks!

[metaphysik]

Did any of you receive a message from the photographer of this image:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090624.html ?

I got a very annoying letter from him for having published his image at the German translation site. But since the German site is listed at "About APOD" in the third line ("Austria"), two laywers and also Robert and Jerry agreed that I have the right to publish all APOD-images without asking for further permission, because the permission was already given to the APOD main page.

I'd like to know if he bullied just me, or any of you, too.

[owlice]

APOD Mirror Operators,

An upcoming scheduled power outage at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will affect APOD the weekend of Oct.27. The APOD server will be brought down by 1200 Eastern Time on Saturday, October 27; service will start being restored at 1100 Eastern Time on Sunday, October 28. This will affect updating the website on that Saturday night.

Power Outage - Confirmed Dates/TImes:
Outage Duration From: 1200hrs - October 27, 2012 - Saturday
Outage Duration To: 1100hrs - October 28, 2012 - Sunday

[owlice]

The October 28 APOD is mirrored here while NASA APOD is down.

[owlice]

Goddard Space Flight Center's servers, including the APOD servers, have been shut down in anticipation of power problems due to Hurricane Sandy.