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    Search Website inside Dropbox Public Folder

    On 28 Dec 2007 I created a website using Reunion for Macintosh. A Google search for Sophus Marcus (Marc) ANDERSON will find Marc at: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../wc01/wc01_028.html

    On 30 Mar 2015 using Reunion I created a new website www.moodylapointe.com which I placed in the public folder of Dropbox v3.12.5. A Google search for Sophus Marcus "Marc" Anderson using both Firefox 43.0.3 and Safari 9.0.2 returned the following:
    "Link to web site

    A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more. Link to web site"
    The "Link to Web Site" took me to https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...t/wc01_028.htm
    Neither this link nor ReunionTalk tell me how to have search engines access inside the Dropbox Public Folder.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    David Moody, USA
    deltalimemike@gmail.com
    https://www.moodylapointe.com

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    Re: Search Website inside Dropbox Public Folder

    Originally posted by David Moody View Post
    On 28 Dec 2007 I created a website using Reunion for Macintosh. A Google search for Sophus Marcus (Marc) ANDERSON will find Marc at: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../wc01/wc01_028.html

    On 30 Mar 2015 using Reunion I created a new website www.moodylapointe.com which I placed in the public folder of Dropbox v3.12.5. A Google search for Sophus Marcus "Marc" Anderson using both Firefox 43.0.3 and Safari 9.0.2 returned the following:
    "Link to web site

    A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more. Link to web site"
    The "Link to Web Site" took me to https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...t/wc01_028.htm
    Neither this link nor ReunionTalk tell me how to have search engines access inside the Dropbox Public Folder.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Unless anyone knows better, I'm not sure that what you want to do is technically possible as your "new website" isn't really a website at all, it's just a collection of interlinked files in a public Dropbox Folder that emulates a website; and so probably can't therefore be fully scanned by Web Search Engines in the way that 'real' Websites are (there is no domain to link to and Dropbox probably also blocks bot searches except for individual user shared file links, which have no attached description).

    You would probably have to ask the DropBox people, but again I'm not sure whether they would 'approve of' or allow their facility to be used to 'fully emulate' true Website Domains because of the amount of traffic (bandwidth) it could potentially use.

    Mervyn
    Last edited by mjashby; 06 January 2016, 05:26 AM.

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