Linking to a Document from Inside a SharePoint Document Library

August 13, 2009 No comments »

Linking to a Document from Inside a SharePoint Document Library

Ever wanted to add a link to a document or another site from inside a SharePoint document library? Well, the solution is available out of the box and it just requires that the Link to Document content type be enabled for the document library.

Go to the document libraries settings -> document library settings click on advanced settings

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in the Document Library Advanced Settings Page make sure that yes is selected in the Allow Management of  Content types.

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Return to the settings page.

Under the content types section select add from existing content types.

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Select the link to a document content type.

Use: From the document library click on the new button drop down and select Link to a document.

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You can now add a document library item that links to a URL .

Removing Your Search Results from Google

July 12, 2009 No comments »

Now why would you want to remove your search results from Google? Well, if spammers got through your blog spam or forum spam blocking security and they flooded you with posts to questionable sites, then you have no choice but to expedite the removal of search links that point to the questionable site hosted on your site.

The first step is to delete the offending content on your site.

Next access your Google Webmaster Tools account or create one if you don’t already have one.

Log in to Webmaster tools and under site configuration – click on crawler access and select the Remove URL link.

The next step is to create a new removal request. There are several removal choices from removing the entire site (which you don’t want to do), to removing a cached copy, individual URLs or a directory or all sub directories on your site.

You will probably want to remove the page or directory where the content is found and within 3-5 days Google should have removed the results from their engine.

If you are interested in reusing the content and page that was removed, after it is cleaned up request a submission for that directory so that Google can re-crawl it.

Making Money from Your Website

July 11, 2009 1 comment »

Want to make extra revenue by serving ads from your website? Check out this interesting article from Inc. Magazine, which tells you the pros and cons of different online advertising companies as well as how much you can expect to make with each.