Is there a standard way to mark web content obsolete?

I was just listening to someone talk about how the older content is the more relevant it is seen by search engines even if it is obsolete info. But it seems in many cases it is good to leave content in place for historical\reference reasons. Is there a standard way (tag, meta-tag, http response code) to mark up a page as obsolete? Or at least is there a standard way to tell the search engines that the pages are less relevant. To be absolutely clear, I am not asking how to make the pages unavailable (for which there are clear HTTP status codes), but rather how to acknowledge that they may no longer be relevant except for historically.


From your experience, based on supply, demand, and effort to learn -- What skills in today's market as a webmaster have the most value? Second, if you were evaluating another webmaster on that skill, what factors would be the best indicators of their level of expertise?


Affect on SEO if share buttons appear before content

I love the way Mashable has big aggregated share counters and share buttons at the top of each article, I think it encourages sharing of articles and it looks nice. I recently added something similar to all my posts, is this a good thing putting share button images straight after the title of a page? I know it is good practice to have some good content that reflects the title for SEO reasons, etc... So is having a few share button images straight after the title likely to be good or have a negative effect on SEO?


Possible click fraud?

So I'm getting hundreds of hits (per month) across multiple separate domains, all originating from one city with 100% bounce rate and 0:00 time spent on the site. I know hundreds of clicks per month isn't that much; is it just some web crawler that Google Analytics isn't identifying?


Why is this date in my sitemap "invalid" according to Google

My XML sitemap file has `<lastmod>2013-07-06T09:39:51-0400</lastmod>` formatted with W3C Datetime Format. Google has a warning message in webmaster tools about this for me: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lmcYi.png) Google's help document about error sitemap errors states: > This could be because a date is in the incorrect format, or the date itself > is not valid. Dates must use W3C Datetime encoding, although you can omit > the time portion if you wish. For example: > >   * 2005-02-21 >   * 2005-02-21T18:00:15+00:00 >


Can you set custom DNS for a file/directory trailing the TLD of a domain (e.g. domain.com/robots.txt)?

I'm in a situation where I'm looking to set a different DNS record for a certain file on a domain, (specifically `www.domain.com/robots.txt`), from the root (`www.domain.com`). (The situation is that I've set the web root to point to a non-live record so the website appears to be non-existent but still has mx records to allow email - but I've now realised I actually need robots.txt to be live and accessible for crawlers such as archive.org so that they respect my site's wishes to not show past snapshots of the site.) Is it possible to do this it in DNS (like some sort of 'TXT' record?), or is there no way to differentiate the DNS of anything trailing `.com`, from what's already been set for `www.domain.com`? The issue is that I really need the web root to solidly appear like a non- existent site, as discussed in my earlier above-linked question. It can't be a 'fake' non-existent page, but an actual one. Perhaps those two things are simply incompatible?


How to setup a failover using 2x shared hosting packages

I have purchased 2 shared hosting packages that are separated servers. I want to mirror these and setup a IP fail-over system, so when `SiteA` becomes unreachable then `SiteB` is used instead. It might be worth mentioning that `SiteA` uses Cpanel and `SiteB` uses Plesk. Would this be possible with this setup?


Strategy for image sizes

I run a site that has a lot of writers that generate quite a few articles a day. I require them to provide two image sizes (one for the big headline image and one as the thumbnail). I've been wanting to change up the site layout a bit, but I am becoming limited by the image sizes for the posts. I have considered just cropping images, but they still need to look nice, and cropping doesn't always generate what I'd want. I'd prefer to just scale down by percentage (as I do with thumbnails). Should I just make the writers provide more images? How do other sites handle this?


Can I use others' content on my own website without their permission?

I would like to ask if is it legal to put someone content on own website (content will be changed to match my own design) without asking the owner of that site for permission. I would like to get some properties available in my area to display on my website from external sources to help people find something to rent/buy in that area. Can I do it without getting agreement with that site?


What can cause the size of HTTP response to vary for the same response body?

I am trying to understand why the web server behaves differently for the following bad requests:               Method                                                     Proto Status Req Body Res Referrer        User Agent                                                                             HTTPS Encrytion     GET /                                                      HTTP/1.0 400  11 362    0 -               -                                                                                - -     \x80w\x01\x03\x01                                                   400  29 226    0 -               -     GET /api/                                                  HTTP/1.0 400  32 226  392 -               -     GET /                                                      HTTP/1.1 400 316 226 4295 -               -     GET /                                                      HTTP/1.0 400 735 226 4121 -               -                                                                                TLSv1.2 RC4-SHA     GET http://example.com/?PHPSESSID=1abcdef0123456ABCD_EFGHI HTTP/1.1 400 167 226  392 -               -     GET /HNAP1/                                                HTTP/1.1 400 369 226  392 http://1.2.3.4/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.1234)     GET http://example.net/headers                             HTTP/1.1 400 423 226  392 -               Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0      I do not understand why the server is returning 0 byte for first and second request and why it is returning more than 4kB in the the 4th and 5th request when the normal size is exactly 392 bytes. Note that I do not have any custom error page for HTTP error code 400.


Why do hackers inject hidden links?

I discovered a hacked site recently which has a `div` in it with a bunch of links to casinos at the top and the `div` is `display:none;`. I understand that black hats may hack sites in order to gain backlinks, but what is the purpose if the links are `display:none` ? I thought Google disregards these links? Are these hackers smart enough to hack sites but too stupid to read up on SEO basics? So what is there to gain by injecting hidden links?


Can i put my PO Box Address in Street Address field in google adsense?

Can i put my PO Box Address in Street Address field in google adsense ? I mean here : https://www.google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1?hl=en can you give me examples.


Nginx Rewrite causing problems

I wrote a little php script that reads and compresses css and javascript files. I used a rewrite to automatically redirect all resources to that script. The rule looks like this:               rewrite ^(/.*\.(css|js))$ /compress.php?file=$1&type=$2;      However this somehow disables these settings:               location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|ico)$ {       expires 168h;       add_header Pragma public;       add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";     }      How do I get Nginx to still use these settings?


Does google bot read the tool tip box content and does it benefit having it, in terms of seo? I have seen SE using this on homepage. Any ideas?


Personalized URL with pre-populated data

I think I am going to use Google spreadsheets and an embedded form. I see that it is possible to pre-populate the fields with URL parameters. So I think I just need a way to redirect with the correct data from a database when a user goes to their Personalized URL. I have no idea how to do the second part. Or if it is even the best way to do it. **How do I set up Personalized URLS?** **How do I redirect from those URLS to the spreadsheets?** **Is this even the best method for pre-filled forms?**


How to invalidate images on Amazon CloudFront after optimising them?

After checking on Google PageSpeed Insights, I have optimised the images on several websites using `jpegoptim` and `optipng`. Obviously a lot of the images are now smaller and they have new timestamps, but they have not been updated through the Amazon CloudFront CDN. The expire headers in `.htaccess` have been set for one year. There are many hundreds of images that have been optimised, so manually invalidating them is not that feasible. What is the best way to do this?


Lost website rankings as a result of using a 302 redirect instead of a 301

I have an online store and during the last 2 days I noticed a big change in its SERPS for some keywords. The site is indexed in local Google for 5 keywords, and the online store is based on Magento 1.7. 5 days ago, I set up an SSL certificate in the online store in order to get better ranking results. I setup the SSL and followed the instructions from the Magento to make permanent `301` redirects from the HTTP URLs to the HTTPS URLs. I replaced all the URLs of the online store with HTTPS. When I saw in the SERPS that the rankings for some keywords were going up and down, I checked some URLs to see if all was going well with `301` redirects and found that the redirects where `302` and not `301`, which is a big bug caused by Magento. I solved the problem with the _.htaccess_ , but still the rankings for the homepage have disappeared. I fetched the site again using Google Webmaster Tools and am waiting to see. Can you please advise if I did something wrong, and what else I could do?


What are "search volume trends" in AdWords?

There was a change in Google Keyword Planner that added a "search volume trends" graph. How is it calculated? The keyword "keyword1" has 800 average monthly searches while the search volume trends shows 3000 - why?


GeoTrust SSL brand name used by re-sellers

I feel like a I got the bait-and-switch from my web host provider since they advertise "GeoTrust SSL" for $99. I purchased it, thinking the certificate is issued from geotrust.com, but then I get an email from Comodo saying they are providing it. My host provider says they get a discount by using Comodo. I purchased the certificate with the understanding it would be issued by GeoTrust. I called the host provider and they said they usually expect it from GeoTrust, but someone from email support responded saying the product name is "GeoTrust SSL" but they use Comodo to get a discount. I think this is bogus and unfair trade practice. However, searching for "GeoTrust" on google brings up a ton of websites selling "GeoTrust" certificates. How can companies get away with this? Since the host provider is part of BBB I plan to inform my host to update the purchase page on their website to state clearly that... "This certicate is provided at a discount and may be issued by a provider other than GeoTrust.com, such as Comodo.com" Any feedback on this is appreciated.


What qualifies as a REST web service?

A year ago i developed an iOS application that was connecting to a server with HTTP requests exchanging JSON files, etc... I was told at that time that the server was a web (REST) service. I didnt care much since for me it was just a black box. Recently, I've been developing a hybrid mobile application where i use native code + jQuery mobile for the front-end part and PHP + MySQL for the back-end part. The application is for registering new users to the database, having users to subscribe in various kinds of events, get notifications on them, etc... So for all the communication between the front-end (client) and back-end (server), I make HTTP requests (POST) and Ajax calls using JSON files. For example, if I have a subscribe button and is clicked, I make an Ajax POST request sending in the body a JSON file with all the information needed, like user ID and categories to subscribe, to a PHP script. The PHP script then makes all the necessary actions in the database. Is this a RESTful Web Service? I am a bit confused on the definition of REST. According to Wikipedia REST is: > REST-style architectures conventionally consist of clients and servers. > Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and return > appropriate responses. So is what I am building a RESTful Web Service? Also do we call REST only the server part or in general the client-server architecture? From other questions I read that a non-REST web service would manage a database like:               /user_create     /user?id=xxx     /user_edit?id=xxx     /user_delete?id=xxx      and a REST web service would just "expose an API with a single base resource":               /user     /user/xxx      I'm really having difficulty understanding what these things mean... Could someone try to explain to me when a service is a REST web service, maybe by giving me an example of what it is and what it is not?


On-Site Factors that Affect CPC

I have a few websites on various niche topics, all running Adsense. The most promising one currently has a CPC that hovers around $1; the rest have CPCs of $0.25-$0.50. I'm curious to know **what on-site factors affect CPC.** That is to say, what I can do, legally (in white-hat compliance) to increase my CPC? Some factors that affect CPC but are _not_ within my control (and therefore, beyond the scope of my question -- they're just examples) include:   * What advertisers are paying for keywords on my site   * What pages people are landing on   * etc.


All the IPs of search engine bots?

if I want to filter out all the search engine bots for example for a script that counts users that are online is there website or a list which is allways up to date and includes the ip addresses of all the bots? Because if I put them into my script manually I will have to change it every day since there are new ips coming. Thanks for your help!


IP address not pointing to domain name I expect it to

I am administering this site: http://www.epicperks.com. As per GoDaddy's control panel as well as this service, the IP address pointing to http://www.epicperks.com is `50.63.210.1`. However, when I visit the two address (one domain name, one IP), I see completely different results. The domain name shows the website as I intend it to be but the IP address shows `pageok` message. What is going on here?


SEO domain.com and domain.co.uk

I currently have a web site domain.com. This is my primary site. i want to get search results in the uk and i am considering purchasing a domain.co.uk. This will be an empty site which will 301 the user to the primary domain.com Is this bad for SEO? Also, are there better ways of implementing such features?


tracking past and current 301 pages in analytics?

we recently revamped about 90 pages on our website. MAJOR changes to increase conversions and user retention. We also redirected the pages to better SEF urls. Well, in google analytics, since the switch, and since the URL has changed.... I have two different sets of data based on the page and am not able to do comparisons on the time on page, bounce rate, exit etc etc. Anybody have any thoughts on this or could point me in the right direction?


How can I optimize a business site to rank well in local search for multiple cities?

I live in an area where there are two cities of 60-90k people adjacent to each other. Due to Google's apparent emphasis on physical location of a business when it comes to SERPs for local queries, it can be difficult for a business to rank for searches which include the neighboring city's name (going both ways, although it seems that searches including one of the city's names are quite a bit more common than the other). How can a business effectively rank well for queries including either city name, when said business operates in both cities but only has an office in one location?


See how one goal leads to another (i.e., how often downloading the demo leads to purchasing)

I have two goals set up for my site in Google Analytics: one to download the demo of my software, and the other to buy the full version. I'm having trouble getting statistics on how often the download leads to a purchase. This seems like something the multi-channel funnel is perfect for (as in this question)---I expect that it takes multiple visits for the demo download to convert into an order. However, I can't seem to narrow down the multi-channel funnel data into only those that have one goal followed by another. If it matters, I'm tracking the ordering action as a page view (i.e., someone views the "Thanks for ordering" page) and the demo download as an action (which fires when someone clicks the "download" button). **EDIT** : I have a funnel set up for this (which has the demo download as a required first step, followed by the steps in the multi-page purchasing funnel). However, as far as I can tell, this does not display what I want, since I expect the purchasing step to occur on a separate visit. Am I wrong about that?


Why would URLs submitted in Google Webmaster Tools drop to 0? It's a small site, only like 20 pages, I submitted the XML sitemap and for about a week it said 20 URLs submitted. A day or so ago it indexed about 17 of the pages, but today when looking it not only says that 0 are indexed but also 0 have been submitted. I did a site search on Google and found clearly that pages are indexed, is this just an error on Google Webmaster Tools?


http requests, using sprites and file sizes -

Hi all I'm in the process of finding out all about sprites and how they can speed up your pages. So I've used spriteMe to create a overall sprite image which is 130kb, this is made up of 14 images with a combined total size of about 65kb So is it better to have one http request and a file size of 130kb or 14 requests for a total of 65kb? Also there is a detailed image which has been put into the spite which caused it's size to go up by about 60kb odd, this used to be a seperate jpg image which was only 30kb. Would I be better off having it seperate and suffering the additional request?


A lot of 408 errors in apache logs - how to prevent them?

I see a lot of 408 errors in my apache2 logs. I increased RequestReadTimeout and KeepAliveTimout but errors are still there. The errors look like this:               xx.xx.xx.xx - - [05/Dec/2012:19:33:56 +0100] "-" 408 4561 "-" "-"     xx.xx.xx.xx - - [05/Dec/2012:19:33:56 +0100] "-" 408 4561 "-" "-"      I heard that these errors are related to Chrome optimization and some users did reported our site returning 408 internal error. It is interesting that we get two 408 error from same IP in sequence then it that IP start working.


Google Analytics: How to track goal steps with events?

I am looking for a way to setup several goal steps that are **not** URLs. My funnel should look like:   1. unique visitor   2. interested visitor (visited more than 1 page)   3. registration started user (event fired)   4. registered user <- goal (event fired) But I can't identify some of those 'steps' by a simple URL. My approach is now to fire an event with an url like:               ga('send', 'event', 'reg', 'regstart', {'page': '/my-new-page#regstart'});      and for registration success               ga('send', 'event', 'reg', 'regsuccess', {'page': '/my-new-page#regsuccess'});      and this is my config: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SfYDB.png) I fired the events via console to see if it works - but nothing shows up in analytics report. Any ideas why? **Edit 1** : I edited my whole question because of @Geoff Jackson recommendation to track this special url with an event.


Changing nameserver on registar

Im changing the nameserver some domains that I have registered on register365, they allow a user to enter two nameservers and a tertiary nameserver. The new nameservers I am using are AWS which has four nameservers. I was wondering do I need to use all four of these or does that matter? Also what is the tertiary nameserver?


Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?

I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in order to gain backlinks? For example, if my site was called "TAFSpecialists.com", or "The Ant Farm Specialists" and I posted comments on relevant blogs using the name The Ant Farm Specialists and TAFSpecialists.com as the website URL, will Google penalize my site? Or is it beneficial, as I originally thought? I'm not spamming blogs, but rather contributing intelligent comments to their blog post. Thoughts?


Is there a way to know time on page for a single page?

Just like we see it on Audience->behavior->engagement->visit duration: 0-10seconds X people, 11-30s Y people, etc, but for a given page only. Not average time. Google analytics has the data since we can see that info for all the site... how to see it for a page?


XAMPP phpMyAdmin - Access forbidden!

I can't access PHPMyAdmin. I have installed XAMPPlite 1.6.5 on Windows 7. I haven't changed any config, except `.htaccess`, where I added the third line:               Order deny,allow     Deny from all     Allow from localhost      Unfortunately, I get the following error when I try to access phpMyAdmin or security from localhost. > Access forbidden! > > You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read- > protected or not readable by the server.


We have a 200% increase of "organic" search traffic - how to figure out which keyword is causing this?

So our Google Analytics are showing us that 200% increase of "organic" search traffic. Analytics are saying that search keyword is "(not provided)". We are wondering how to find out which keyword is causing this? We are monitoring all important keywords for our website. None of keyword is in first 5, so our "organic" serach traffic is modest. However, today we received 200% increase of "organic" search traffic but none of keywords we can think of moved a bit. We also did not change anything related to SEO. And what is interesting Google Webmaster shows no changes - ~2500 impressions and ~200 clicks. How to find out which "keyword" might be causing this spike?


Does "Google Webmaster Tools" service send notification if finds broken links?

Can GWT email me if a broken link is found on my website?


Best way to setup multiple sites' emails in my Gmail

I've a dozen sites and I want all of their emails come to my one gmail id and I want to reply centrally from Gmail only. I've also added all of those emails in "send email as:" list in Gmail. I could add email forwarders in my Cpanel but in that case I'll not be able to send email whose inboxes haven't been created( for example contactus@mysite.com). If I create email account then I'd receive emails in my inbox as well as forwared by the forwarder( to my gmail id). Otherwise I can setup Gmail for my domain. But for a dozen emails I'm not sure if that'd be fine. I see in http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html that for up to 10 emails it is free. But then to send email from webhosting the php code will need SMTP login details and leaving my important gmail account details in my webhosting account is very risky given my sites have been compromised twice. What is the best way to centralize all my emails so that I can read/reply/search from single place?


Domain name transfer: do you lose years left at current registrar?

I have a domain registered at GoDaddy. it was registered for five years (two years ago). whois records shows it will expire some time in 2015. Now I want to transfer to Gandi. The problem is Gandi asks me to pay fee for at least for one year. So my question is,   * If I transfer a domain, should I start paying from the beginning (losing two or what ever years left with previous registrar)?    * If so, Is it with the same policy with any registrar out there?


Everything needed to run a high-traffic web site

I'm an experienced front-end web developer, while my back-end experience has occurred only within the context of Drupal. Basically, the deeper things go into the back end, the more inexperienced I am. At a certain point, I don't even know what it is I don't know. I'm hoping to get a broad sense of all that's required on the back-end to run a high traffic website. I realize that certain things will depend on the whether you're using something like PHP vs Ruby, type of database, type of server, and the type of OS on that server. At the moment I'm planning on using Amazon EC2, but am not sure about PHP vs. Ruby. As far as I can tell, here are the main categories: **Server**   1. Main configurations   2. Monitoring performance / issues   3. Scalability in the long & short run (short run = ability to quickly increase capacity) **DataBase**   1. Main configurations   2. Monitoring performance / issues   3. Scalability in the long run   4. Caching (not sure if query cacheing is done at the DB level or PHP/Ruby level) **Back-end Language (PHP or Ruby)**   1. Main configurations   2. Caching   3. Cron jobs (or equivalent in Ruby, if called something else)    I fear that this question may get closed as not a real question because it's not specific enough. But it's my back-end inexperience that makes it difficult for me to eve know how to correctly pose a question like this. If the question should be revised, please leave a comment explaining in what way and I'll be sure to do so.


Evil Spam Emails caused hosting account suspension!

We have a couple domains hosted rackservers.com.au. Recently our account go suspended without any notice. I then filed a ticket and soon got the answer:'There are some one forging email accounts from your domain, and they have been sending out spam emails. So we do not want you here anymore, take your backup and go.' I am quite shocked by such attitude and more confused by the actions we should take under such situation. Should I take my back up and go? Should I ask them for more details? How can I prevent this from happening again in the future?


Improve efficiency of web building setup and processes - Wordpress on Mac

Can anyone see any ways in which I can improve my speed and efficiency with the following setup? Or if there are any obvious holes in my building process? This is for building **Wordpress** websites on **Mac** : 1) I have a standard Wordpress setup that I work from which includes various plugins that I tend to use across all setups - thus cutting out the step of having to download them all the time! 2) My standard WP files are copied into a **Dropbox** folder - thus creating backups of the files. 3) I then open up **MAMP** and setup a local version. 4) I open up **Coda** and setup the FTP details so files can be uploaded to the live domain by using the publish button. If anyone has any advice on how to improve this process then please let me know!


Can Google track my site without Google Analytics?

If my site doesn't install Google Analytics and I'm using the browser IE, not Chrome. Can Google track my sites? (collect data about how many visitors, pageviews, time on sites, bouce rate...) If yes, how Google did? Anyone has some docs about this problem?


Looking for a Clean File Host

I have a Blogger blog and I would like to have a way for readers to download files (Blogger doesn't host files like that.) I would use something like github, but one of my files is actually just a spreadsheet make with OpenOffice Calc that has a function on it -- not really something for GitHub. Where is a great place to upload this where users can download the files if they want? I know there are a lot of those ad-ridden "get paid to have people download files from you" type of sites and that's exactly what I would like to avoid. Anyone know of a (hopefully) free place I can dump files so that people can download them that isn't junky, ad-ridden, scammy, dirty, or virus-filled place?


Pairing teams up for competition

So i visited this site http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ and in this when i go to the fixtures, i was thinking, how did the developer designed this so that the new fixtures get generated on its own? For eg if i am having 10 teams(say), and i am competing them in some competition(say football) then how do i design my thing so that after each week a new set of fixtures is generated, shall i change the page after every week, and change it manually, or how do i do it. Say, i am having all my fixtures in hand, i.e. i know every weekly fixture, then how do i design the whole thing. It will not be nice to edit the page every time i need to change the fixtures. I am still a beginner, who have practiced a bit of PHP, so kindly help!


Preserve search engine rankings while shifting to new domain name

We have to shift our web-site to a new domain due to some unavoidable circumstances. The portal has been up and running there since 2009. It has good index in various search engines and we are getting a good number of page hits on daily basis. Losing the search hits and index are our big concern. We are not sure how best we can handle this. What all can be done to preserve as much as possible while shifting to new domain name.


Connecting keywords with location

_**Is there a way to connect the keyword with the location withing Google Analytics?_** I would like to be able to see what cities are searching for what terms.


Webmasters hentry error and authorless pages

Within Google Webmasters Search Appearance->Structured data I'm getting a series of errors:               Error: Missing required hCard "author".      And most of my 44 errors have:               Missing: Author     Missing: entry-title     Missing: updated      There seems to be no CLEAR explanation of these errors. It is either because these classes exist without their nested classes, or they are expected to exist because of something else, possibly itemscope or itemtype='' The Question: How do you specify with richsnippets that the page is about a location and there is no human author?


How should cross site canonical meta links be placed? Should they be different per page and should they go on the canonical domain itself?

I have a website available via `www.mydomain.com` that is also available via `svr7464z.vps.hostingcompanycom`. The content is 100% identical, it's a mirror. I don't want search engines to know about `svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com` and probably they never will but just in case they do I want to avoid duplicate content issues. Unfortunately, blocking the offending URL is not possible and neither are 301-redirects. So it seems rel=canonical should come to my rescue, but I'm confused where to place it. Do I have to place the tags only on the `svr7464z.vps.hostingcompanycom` pages or also on the pages available via the official domain `www.mydomain.com`? Also, do the tags have to be different based on the page? _For example:_ For: `http://svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com`   Tag: `link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com"` For: `http://svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com/about`   Tag: `link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/about"` For: `http://svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com/contact`   Tag: `link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/contact"`


Will canonical tag referencing unsecure HTTP URLs on a HTTPS page cause the unsecure message?

If a secure HTTPS page has a canonical tag referencing the HTTP version, will this cause the message in the browser that the page is using unsecure elements and prevent the green lock icon appearing? e.g https://wwww.example.com/ has the following canonical tag defined:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://wwww.example.com/" />      I know if that if other elements on a HTTPS page are called unsecured via HTTP you get the following warning in browsers: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tVZfv.png) As opposed to the lock icon: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BoiHe.png) Will this also happen if the canonical tag is using HTTP? I've read else where that it wont, but I'd like to see a live example.


Index manager in cpanel. Do contents still get indexed with "No Indexing"?

Simple question. A folder, lets say for example abc.com/images/ Is being displayed on google as "index of", which I don't like. The contents of this folder are important, and it is important that they get indexed, but I don't want to see the "index of" page. It is unclear to me whether selecting the "No Indexing" in cpanel will remove the contents from indexing as well. http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/IndexManager What should I do anyways, Redirect to another page? What's a common practice?


Any smart touch tv that supports silverlight through its native web browser?

I have developed a silverlight application and would like to test it in a touch environment, so my question is are there any smart TV where I can show this application through their native web browser or do I have to connect a computer (with windows 7/8) to a touch monitor (in order to support silverlight)? The TV monitor should be placed in a corridor and should be around 40 " big. 2 touch points are enough but 6 would not be bad either (but price is of concern here). Of course it could be a all in one touch computer but these tend to be rather expensive when they have such a big screen (Microsoft table etc) Sorry if this question is misplaced but didn't find any other forum that would fit this subject, if there is please let me know and I will correct the mistake =)


Google Analytics ID web/mobile app exchange possible?

If I have a website with Google Analytics ID UA-xxxx, and now I want to develop an iOS app related to my site, can I use the same id UA-xxxx or do I have to create a new ad-hoc one?


Change name of audio file for download

I have some mp3 files which are named "my-audio.mp3" but now the client wants the visitor to be able to download and save these files to their desktop. He doesn't like the name with the hyphen and wants them renamed to "MyAudio.mp3". Other than putting the renamed files into their own 'download' folder, how can I make this work on Apache?


How to prove content is mine after somtime using web

I need some suggestions as to how proved the ownership of content in case it is stolen using Web exclusively and that'd be the interest of every Webmaster publishing any content. I mean I've plenty of content in form of images, pdf files, articles. Suppose I publish those articles - somebody else can then re-use it as one's own idea etc. Later it will be difficult to prove that it originally belonged to me( on a so and so date). We should be able to prove ownership in the courts( as against to Google) Here is another related thread: Website content copied - How can I prove that I wrote it? . Will it be ok to send those documents say in zip file using gmail to my other email accounts which I can use later to prove that those were with me during a time - assuming we can't change those sent dates in email accounts from reputed providers? In the same way I can upload them in docstoc.com in pdf files, store them at any file sharing sites in zip, encrypted ( without divulging those urls). Another idea is to make a video of documents and upload them in Facebook etc. So I want to know if there are any better ideas!


Refactoring large/old CSS files

I'm currently working on a 100,000 page website, the current design has been in place for over 5 years and successive updates have resulted in four 12,000+ line CSS files. Obviously the CSS has become unwieldy, many of the styles are duplicated and it's nearly impossible to know how many of the styles are actually being used. We can minify, but this isn't really tackling the problem, just delaying the inevitable re-work. So three questions are there any **tools** out there for...   * de-duplicating large CSS files?   * scanning the site and logging CSS class and ID use?    * could such scanning be achieved with a script of some kind, greasemonkey maybe?


Tomcat 6 broken images

I am using Tomcat 6 to serve both static content and dynamic content. For some reason, from time to time, I see that images are broken. It usually happens when I copy and paste the image URL to the browser. When I refresh the image appears. The server has zero load on it. Has anyone encountered such issue with Tomcat?


Is It Bad for SEO to Have Multiple Domain Names If You Set Up rel="alternate" Tags Correctly?

We have several sites that have multiple domain names. Rather than forwarding to one domain name, we set up `rel="alternate"` tags in the header of each page, pointing to the other versions of that page, with one page marked as `rel="canonical"`. I was under the impression that this would allow spiders to correctly determine that the pages are not content spamming. However, a client has had a report from a "SEO Expert" who cclaims the opposite. If the `rel="alternate"` tages are set up correctly, is there a problem?


how are they doing this for their CMS?? And how can I do something similar

They've linked the CMS, mail (which is http://www.campaignmonitor.com), social sites management, some kind of online payment solutions, and word press all under one log-in. I'm mostly a graphic designer -- People much smarter than me... How is this done? Can anybody point me in the right direction to get something similar to this?. here's a link of their youtube giving an overview of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eGKv8YDZvbo


What does the impression and ctr means in google webmaster

I am checking google webmaster tools. I entered the search queries section. There i found alot keywords and their impression and ctr etc. I clicked on one of the query keyword there it shows the keyword and position in search result, but when i go to google.com and type the specified keyword it shows no impressions too... how do i measure find my site's impression on google.com my site: http://www.trekkingandtoursnepal.com   keyword: trekking nepal


How come Indiegogo links shared on G+ link to their page instead of displaying URL?

If an Indiegogo link, such as this one, gets shared on G+, their G+ page is displayed in the post in the place where commonly the URL would be displayed. I've tried looking analyzing the HTML, but came up empty handed: there's Twitter cards metadata, there's OpenGraph, there is a G+ button -- but I found nothing that links to Indiegogo's page, not even `rel="publisher"`. **So, how does Indiegogo achieve this?**


Managing reviews. What's best for increasing search engine ranking?

I'm managing my wife's business website for her day spa. I built the site in WordPress. I'm trying to find the best solution to manage reviews and the pro and cons of each. Right now, she has a Yelp business listing with a few reviews. I'm in the process of verifying a Google+ Place for her business. I'd like to have reviews on her site and there are many solutions for integrating Yelp via their API. But is it beneficial to do that? I have another solution for self-hosted reviews on her site that are all marked with the appropriate schema tags for reviews. On that same note, what about reviews that show up on the Google+ Place? Are those queried from Yelp and reviews on websites, such as mine?


How do I access ZPanel (control panel) files?

I've bought a VPS and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. To control my domains, I've installed a ZPanel X (10.1.0) control panel, and while this worked perfectly after 4 tries, I cannot access the ZPanel files themselves. I can create an FTP account within ZPanel, but I can only access the */public_html/* folder, even though I set root/master access to my FTP account. I can't access the folder _/panel/_ , where the ZPanel files are stored. You might be asking why I want to do this? I need to configure and edit some ZPanel files.


How do I go about getting hold of a domain name that Whois shows as expired, but domain registration sites show as "taken"?

There's a domain I'm interested in using, but it's never been worth paying the big bucks it would have taken to buy it off the squatters who bought it when the company it was originally used by folded quite a few years ago. I've just spotted that WhoIs.net is showing contradictory information. When I do a lookup the results page shows: > [domain].com is already registered * where the (*) points to their usual disclaimer. But at the "who is" information has the following at the bottom:               Created: 2007-07-19     Updated: 2011-07-20     Expires: 2012-07-19      i.e. the registration expired getting on for two years ago now. However, when I go to a domain registration site it also states that the domain is taken. What's the correct procedure here? Can (or indeed should) I just backorder it from the domain registration site? Will their enquiry just trigger the release of the name, or will it backfire and the current (well previous) owner renew it and try to sell it for mega bucks now that they know for certain someone is interested? I've seen this question, but I don't think the situation is the same in this case: How would you convince a domain owner to sell his domain to you?


Is there a way to record scrollbar movement?

Simply put, I would like to know if customers are looking at the whole page or not, to decide whether I should rearrange the content, moving it up on that page or not. Is there a way to record the scrollbar movement on a certain page, or visually record visitor's behavior for that matter? Perhaps even a whole other way to achieve this goal?


What does the keyword 'impression' mean or constitute in web analytics

I would like to understand what does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics. I have asked a similar question for clicks since the keywords individually mean 2 different things.


Including title page name in PHP URLs

How do I show titles of the page in URLs? **Currently** : `http://websitename.com/index.php?c_id=18&start=0&m_id=1` **Change To** : `http://websitename.com/index.php?c_id=title_of_the_page&start=0&m_id=1` Like Joomla gives us option to change URLs to seo-friendly, is there a code or something we do in httaccess etc so the page title automatically becomes part of the URL?


Quantcast reporting

Looking at a Quantcast report I see that they have metrics like women, male, children and different age groups, etc. How do they determine which visitor to the site is woman, male, child, old man, etc?


Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 upgrade tips?

Drupal 7 is coming. Any tips for upgrading Drupal 6 sites to 7? Thanks!


Wordpress blog penalized by Google search - what's wrong?

I have a blog (http://blog.brodzinski.com), which is wordpress.org blog with pretty popular Thesis theme with almost no other customizations. Some time ago it was penalized by Google search - it simply stopped appearing in search results even for search terms it used to be top result, like my name - Pawel Brodzinski - which isn't anything close to popular search term. To be exact the site has been penalized on Nov 18. It started popping up in search result on Dec 23 but only for a few days. Since Dec 27 it is out again.   * I know Google guidelines and I'm not aware to break any of them.   * I submitted reconsideration request after I noticed penalty. It was proceeded and there was no change whatsoever (no surprise as it seems the site was penalized again).   * I checked diagnostics in webmaster tools and neither any malware was detected nor any strange search terms popped up.   * I read related threads on Google webmasters forum but found none of solutions working for me.   * I posted a thread on Google webmasters forum (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=546339f49d4a03bc&hl=en) and the only answer I got was to check for duplicate content. Well, there is some duplicate content published on the web but it is true for vast majority of blogs and it doesn't seem to be a reason for a penalty. Also before Dec 27 I was able to remove duplicate content from a couple of sites which were republishing my feed but this doesn't change the situation - the site was penalized again. The problem is I have no idea what can be wrong with the website or how to find it out. To make the problem worse I'm no webmaster, I just run a wordpress blog, which was supposed to be easy.


Possible to only load specifiv div of a website?

I have this project i'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using facebooks places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com I can easily just use touch.facebook.com/#places.php but then that loads the top bars. Anyway, is there a way I could manipulate the URL so that it will only load the places content rather than having the top and bottom menu bars. After looking at the code it looks like there is a div id=content" I was thinking maybe there was a way to make the url so that it will only load that div? I also tried making a url that might just jump down to content using touch.facebook.com/#places.php#content but apparently with that way touch.facebook.com was built that doesn't work. But really i'd rather figure out a way to just load the content. Ay ideas? thanks! edit again: I went ahead and tried this I read the examples for file_get_contents and what's being here looks right, according to example 1               <?php     $page = file_get_contents('http://touch.facebook.com');     $doc = new DOMDocument();     $doc->loadHTML($page);     $divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');     foreach($divs as $div) {           if ($div->getAttribute('id') === 'content') {              echo $div->nodeValue;         }     }     ?>      I get a completely blank page. Sorry really new to php, trying to understand it. any suggestions?


high phyiscal memory usage with wordpress, no visitors , stock theme and no plugins!

my problem is that my server consume 512 MegaBytes my site is new with 6 users at same time at most stock theme no plugins checked the stats and saw that site.com/feed/ had many hits any suggestions?


What can I do to reduce the file size of my images?

Working with some wordpress themes I've been modifying some of the image files and noticed that my edited versions are sometimes 3-4x larger than the original (saved using the same format). I don't want to degrade quality - what are some of the ways to make a file size smaller so it will load faster? Right now, for example, I use Photoshop and set the image quality slider to '8' (out of 10).


How do I check that a domain is available without triggering a grabber?

A few days ago, I checked whether a domain was available by tying the name in the web browser. Also `host` returned `not found 3(NXDOMAIN)` When I tried again today, some domain grabber had snatched it. How can I check whether a domain is available without losing to some barely legal "service"?


Suggestions for a Live chat software on websites for customer support?

Recommendations needed. We want to get in touch with customers via live chat. Requirements:   * chat window customisable to mingle with website theme (colors etc)   * preferably the window should be within webpage and not only pop-out/popup.   * ease of use by customer   * minimally intrusive   * should have triggers/Alerts to backend side. for ex: user is unable to fill-up signup form or something, we should be able to offer help to user and this chat window automatically shows to user. What is the cost ? **UPDATE** : After R&D we also narrowed down to comm100 and liveperson, and we will go with comm100. LP is best commerical soln. but comm100 is a good free soln. We go with comm100 as starting point. But it gives out exceptions alerts sometimes in the dashboard. Can it be configured for chat invitations triggered on certain conditions. Currently only a timebased trigger is available. Any other major difference between these two ?


Tiny Tiny RSS Installation

I am having difficulties in installing the following: http://tt- rss.org/redmine/ I keep constantly getting this error after my installation (Which obviously, isn't correct). Fatal Error: config: please read config.php completely. I would much appreciate it if someone would install this for me! I will happily give FTP details :) Please, I really need this. Thanks.


How to tie together Facebook Pages and main website

I'm anonymising this situation a bit, so I apologise if the scenario seems a bit contrived, but the question is a genuine one I need to address. I'm working on a website for a web-based company which acts as an intermediary or broker between public speakers and people who want to hire them. The company wants to tie into social media, so I've added Facebook etc. like/share buttons. Each registered speaker has a separate page with its own OpenGraph metadata and so they can be independently "liked". The front page also has a "like" button for people who appreciate the service provided by the site instead of / as well as individual speakers. The company also has a Facebook Pages page. The question is how to tie them together. > Is there a "Best practices" approach to handling the relationship between > the company website and the company Facebook Pages page? In particular, should I replace the Like button on the front page with a link to the Facebook page (or perhaps change the OpenGraph metadata for it to set the Facebook page as og:url - although my instinct is that that's a bad idea)?


Why does my certificate provider ask me to disable its root certificate?

I received an SSL certificate from GoDaddy yesterday and their instructions to install the certificate seemed weird. To be precise, they asked me to disable their root certificate in server. > NOTE: If the Go Daddy® Class 2 Certification Authority root certificate is > currently installed on your machine, you need to disable it from the Trusted > Root Certification Authorities folder. What do I need to disable the root certificate? Another question: they asked me to put intermediate certificates on the server. I can sure do that on **server** but my **clients** might not have them. Does it matter?


Google Analytics Goal funnel not working

I have been a user of Google Analytics for over 2 years and like to think I am adept at using it but this issue has really thrown me. I have a Goal set up which appears to be working on first looking at the overview. It gives me 42 Goal Conversions, but when I go in to look at the Goal Funnel Visualization it states 0 visitors finished. What is happening here? Any advice much appreciated. Thanks


Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter

A few years ago, I purchased a .org domain. Presumably, the .com version was taken by a domain squatter because it was registered the day after I registered it and it only hosts one of those typical ad pages. I recently decided that I want the .com version as well if it's cheap, and I'd like to know: What price do they typically charge, and are there any ways to get them to lower this price?


What are the chances of a claiming a .com domain name from a squatter

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter As the question states, if a .com domain is squatted by the usual ad site, what are the chances of getting the domain (not buying it from the squatter)? And what should one expect to spend on it? **This is for a startup company** , is it still possible? Any past experiences are very welcome. Also does the standard default ad site make a difference? What if the domain is owned, but no website is setup at the domain? I realize there are other uses, but for those cases a subdomain is usually "enough".


Why is Google not indexing my forum?

I have this web site that as you can see on the top right has is a "Forums" button that links to my forums. My problem is that if, for instance, I make a Google search "site:heliumscraper.com answers" I don't get any result, even though the word "answers" is in the forum's board index and it has been there for a few months already. I don't have a robots file. I also uploaded a sitemap to Google that contained the forum. I'm thinking the problem might be the fact that the only link from my main page to the forum opens in a new window. Could this be the problem?


Redirect QR code

Is there a way to "intercept" incoming traffic from a QR code and redirect it to another page of your site? I have a QR code that is printed on physical paper. The scan will take the visitor to my root homepage, ie- www.mysite.com However, the URL I need visitors to goto is www.mysite.com/code Any way to do this without having to generate a new code? I don't want to have to reprint the physical copies!


Why my Joomla gallery link asks for admin access to administrator folder? And how do I fix it?

I have an image gallery component, linked to a menu item. I also have my administrator folder secured on my web host (user security). Additionally, my folders are all `CHMOD 755`. When I click on the gallery link, it pops up the security access form, as if the link or component needs to write to the administrator folder... Am I overdoing security or is there a permission solution to this issue?


How do I prevent duplicate indexing by Googlebot-Mobile?

I have only one version of my web-site, and it is optimised for both the desktop and the smartphone. I've noticed that Google crawls each page exactly twice: once with `Googlebot/2.1`, and again with `Googlebot-Mobile/2.1`:               % fgrep "/www/drupal6/filefield " /var/www/logs/ports.su/ports.su.access.log     66.249.76.223 - - [12/Mar/2013:07:46:42 -0700] "GET /www/drupal6/filefield HTTP/1.1" 200 2365 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"     66.249.76.223 - - [12/Mar/2013:13:59:23 -0700] "GET /www/drupal6/filefield HTTP/1.1" 200 2365 "-" "DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"      I don't think blocking either of these bots in `/robots.txt` would be appropriate, as it might remove my site from their respective index. However, don't they share their indices, too? How do I tell Google that I only have one site? **Looking for something that's the opposite of`Vary: User-Agent`.**


Preventing botvisits to website

Every time some user shares my website's address inside his/her tweets, the following bots come to my website: > UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)   >  ShowyouBot (http://showyou.com/crawler)   >  JS-Kit URL Resolver, http://js-kit.com/   >  bitlybot   >  EventMachine   >  HttpClient etaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com Ten times in a minute one of these bots come to my site and fetches my content. My question is, would banning these bots' IPs with htaccess or preventing their visits with robots.txt can harm my SEO ? Or can it obstruct some basic Twitter functionality ? For example when user shares my URL, the URL couldn't be shortened so he can't share it. Or Twitter will find my site suspicious etc?


I added schema.org/person - suddenly Google Plus is using itemprop as Site TITLE ? Bug?

I was wondering if anyone else ran into the same problem This is the code I used

Written by:  Name

 Contact

      It's very simple - when I paste a link on Google Plus it will use itemprop "name" as the Site title. It works correctly on Facebook - just wondering why Google would do that before I run into problems, very annoying. The only alternative would be a vcard


How do I get a "Sign in with Facebook" button in Denmark?

I live in Denmark. In connection with a project I would like to add a "Sign in with Facebook" button to a website. In order to do that I apparently have to register as a Facebook developer on https://developers.facebook.com/. But during the registration process, they need to confirm my cell phone number by sending me a confirmation code in a text message. I never receive that code. As far as I can tell, Facebook does not support text messages to Denmark. (If you go to https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=mobile and press "Activate Text Messaging," you will get a list of supported countries. They include countries like Tajikistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but _not_ Denmark.) Facebook support has been less than helpful. Can anybody suggest what I can possibly do? Do I really need to emigrate just to get a "Sign in with Facebook" button?


What every beginner should know about website development?

I am a novice at building websites and considering to make one. But I'm very confused right now. I guess every beginner faces issues getting started. Some questions that have come up are:   1. I have an idea and a need a website. That's all I know right now. But how do I start ? HTML is for sure the basic language but there are a lot of other technologies too. What are ASP, PHP, Ruby, etc? How do I choose the right one from them? Other than ASP and PHP, there is JavaScript and other languages under the same belt. What are they used for?   2. Hosting. When I am choosing the host, what considerations do I have to keep in mind? What support do I need from them (other than getting some important space obviously)?   3. I am considering of making the website in Ruby on Rails. I don't know about PHP and what effect it would have if I choose Ruby over PHP. I thought about Ruby just because its new and I don't want to learn some thing "not new"! Moreover, what is a framework and how does a framework effect my development process? These three questions are just to explain my "confusion" better. There is obviously a lot more to it. Just to try to answer how the flow of website development goes keeping in mind my questions!


Artists and music - Need Help Deciding on a CMS

A friend has asked me to build a site with the following options:   * staff members must be able to add new music and artists to the page   * a gallery must be provided - it is also good if each artist has the ability to have his/her own smaller gallery   * users must be able to vote for artists   * users must be able to alter in discussions (forums or comments sections)   * staff members must be able to blog   * staff members must be able to write articles I did a small project where i actually implemented all of these features, but I want to use an existing content management system for all of these features so that future developers can, hopefully, more easy extend the website. And also, so that I don't have to provide too much documentation. I have never developed a website using an external CMS like Drupal or Wordpress and after seeing hours of tutorial videos of both systems, I still can't make up my mind on whether i should : a) use Drupal 7 b) use Wordpress 3 c) create my own cms I can imagine that staff members would also want to create content using iPhone or android based mobile devices, but this is not a required feature. Can someone, with experience, please tell me about their experiences with larger projects like this? The site will have approximately 400 000 - 500 000 visitors (not daily visitors, based on numbers from last year in a period of 4 months)


Remove www from HTTPS request in Nginx

I have the following code:               server {     listen 443;     server_name www.domain.com;          ssl on;     ssl_certificate    /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.crt;     ssl_certificate_key    /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.key;          return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;     }      If I access `https://domain.com` everything works, if I access `https://www.domain.com` I get a SSL warning that the Certificate does not match the domain, which it doesn't. Once you accept the invalid SSL cert it redirects you to `https://domain.com` with the valid cert. But if I remove the `ssl on;` bit etc, then neither `https://domain.com` or `https://www.domain.com` work. So how can I remove the WWW without the SSL Invalid warning? I only have an SSL cert for `domain.com` and not for `www.domain.com`.


New blog post shows immediately in google search results where as other HTML content takes time, why?

I have a blog which has been active for 3 years. Recently I posted an article and it immediately appeared in google search. Maybe 5 to 10 minutes. A point to note is I was logged into my google account. Maybe google checked my post's when I searched since I am logged in? Yet I logged out and used another browser and searched again with that specific text and it appeared in google search result. How did this happen? However, if I make an article in static HTML and publish, it takes time. (I assume this is the case but I haven't tested much). Yet tested a few cases after updating it in my sitemap xml. How does google search work for a blog and other content?


Can Googlebot handle robots.txt with a 302 redirect?

In Google Webmaster Tools, I get an error: > Google couldn't crawl your site because we were unable to access your site's > robots.txt file The associated help says: > If your robots.txt file exists but is unreachable (in other words, if it > doesn’t return a 200 or 404 HTTP status code), we’ll postpone our crawl > rather than risk crawling disallowed URLs My site 302 redirects all http traffic to HTTPS - so access to `http://blah/robots.txt` is 302 redirected to `https://blah/robots.txt`, so literally it doesn't return 200 or 404 as requested above. My question - does Googlebot object to the 302 redirect when it attempts to access the _robots.txt_ file? Note: a lot of the server configuration is out of my control, and is configured this way due to corporate IT. I'm just the poor guy who needs to get this working in spite of the constraints.


How to set "twitter:player" URL in Twitter player card?

I am trying to design Twitter player cards for my podcast episodes, which are hosted on a Wordpress site. I am confused about what is supposed to go in this section:               <meta name="twitter:player" content=""> The only information I can find from Twitter about this field is that it is an: "HTTPS URL to iframe player. This must be a HTTPS URL which does not generate mixed content warnings in a web browser. Required." So how does one know what URL to use? Are there free players available that anyone can link to in their Twitter card? Should the player be self-hosted? My site uses the Podlove Web Player to play episodes of my podcast (example post here). I'd prefer to use that player since I've already got it set up for each of my episodes, but I don't know enough about this whole Twitter card thing to know if that is possible. Thanks for any tips!


If a user uploads copyrighted material to my site but for personal use is it legal?

I am creating a personal cloud service, each account is only for use by the owner. You can upload any file and view / play it in the browser, e.g. documents, music and videos. Now obviously someone's going to upload their music library, which is fine by me, but is it breaching copyright? The only person who has access to the material would be the account owner, the material is not publicly accessible. So is it legal for someone to upload their iTunes library onto my servers? Would it be the same for their films?


Command-line website screenshot tool

I want a command-line website screenshot tool so I can check the status/appearance of various websites. If possible, I'd want a tool that works on GNU/Linux and can be automated.


I just accepted a "come back to us" type offer $100 Adwords Credit - Now 80% of my Adsense Ads are for Google Adwords

I don't know if this is related, and I haven't been able to find any information on it anywhere. I just accepted a $100 Adwords credit offer from Google. Shortly after I did that, roughly 80% of the ads I have placed on my site are ads for Google Adwords. Completely irrelevant to my site and its content. Is it possible the two are related? My sites have been displaying relevant content for years now, why the change? Any feedback on this would be appreciated... Thanks


Speeding up website"speed"?

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on one of our websites (who doesn't?). One of the thing that strikes us is the "page speed" tab. It shows that our website takes on average 5.69 seconds to load over the last 30 days. This is clearly way too slow, and we want to make that much faster. We are a PHP and Apache site, but we use Google's Site Optimizer module for Apache. The content itself. With `ab`, I find that it takes on average 150ms to serve each and every document, also, a single document is loaded with 5 calls (1 CSS, 1 JS and 2 images). However, these assets should obviously be cached after the first request. When I look at the "Network" tab in Google Chrome, I find that my site is slow mostly due to adsense, analytics, Google+, doubleclick... or even Facebook (we show a widget). These should obviously not be counted in the "load time" for our page, because these are not part of the content. The site is Jobetudiant and you can access a version of it with no extra JS calls by adding `noext&nopub` to any URL. What would you do to optimize the load and rendering times?


How do I make images smaller without making them darker?

OK - my manager hit me with this one today, and I need a reality check. She asked me to color-correct an image because, "images get darker in Photoshop when you make them smaller." I've never seen anything that would lead me to that conclusion - and I've been with Photoshop since version 3 (still having difficulty fully trusting multiple undo's, by the way). Is one of us crazy? And if it's me, in what way do you best compensate for the change? Levels?


Blogger template shows single column when signed in

I am hosting my blog on blogger.com using a custom domain. I am using one of the standard templates (Watermark) with a few extra widgets. It looks perfectly on all major browsers. However, the moment I log in to my google account my blog shows up as a single column. Right column is appended below the left column. I have not noticed any other major change. Good thing is this is only visible to me (hopefully). But it bothers me. Does anybody know what might cause this?


Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?

Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then. He claims that relevant YouTube videos are bringing more traffic than relevant backlinks, in general. Is this (still) true? I am a bit puzzled about his statement, because I don't see that many people mentioning relevant video's as a valid strategy to get traffic. Does anyone have experience to share about this? Thanks!


Google authorship information, for a whole website?

To make Google Authorship Information work, you should follow some steps one of which is to login to your Google profile, and add the links of the articles you've contributed to. This is a good step, as much as you are only a contributor of few articles, or you've contributed to articles across many websites, and many domains. But if you are the owner of a website, and you have large number of articles (say 100 articles and more for example), then it gets tediuse and uncomfortable task to add each article's URL to your Google Profile. Does Google has a feature to tell it that you own a website, so that it knows that the author of each article on that website is you?


Domain recovery prevention

I'm in a situation where I've done a website for a client and the year is up and their annual renewal is due. They've decided they don't want to renew with me, which I don't have a problem with and that they would like to go elsewhere. The trouble is, they owe for the updates and changes they've had throughout the year to which they agreed to pay at the end of the year when we began working together. They want me to change the IPS tag (it's a .co.uk domain) to their new providers registrar so they can take control of the domain but given that I know the kind of people they are, I don't want to release the domain until all accounts are paid up to date (reasonable, right? If they intend to pay they wouldn't have a problem with this, surely?). I know the company that they want to swap to and have had bad experiences with them in the past. I fear that they will somehow forcefully try to take hold of the domain, leaving me with absolutely no leverage to get the money I'm owed. As I understand it, unless a domain is preventing a business from _doing_ business or damaging the company's name, it can't be touched - or am I wrong? I will not disable the email account associated with the domain, but I may well replace the site (it's a very generic domain) with a small site with content based on the keywords in the domain, so that can no way be construed as damaging, correct? Is there anything else I can do here to stop any potential forceful takeovers of the domain? I'm not asking for legal advice, just exactly what I can do to prevent being conned by this client.


'passing juice' in internal and external links and text to html ratio

Couple of questions about SEO:   * Is there any evidence to support the idea that 'passing juice' is a bad thing for internal and external web links?   * Equally is there any evidence to support the idea that text to HTML ratio, particularly on homepages is considered when ranking. It has always appeared to me that these are myths.


UFW Log Question

Can someone tell me exactly what this UFW log reads? What is LEN, SPT, DPT? I'm getting maybe 30 lines of logs like this per day. Is this normal?               Aug 27 11:45:44 tehnika kernel: [18508.939504] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=04:01:21:79:aa:01:28:8a:1c:64:cb:f0:08:00 SRC=116.10.191.233 DST=188.226.235.21 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=107 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=22 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0


Web hosting announced downtime and how it affects FORWARD domain names?

Our web hosting provider that holds our FORWARD domain names announced that at some point in the next couple weeks they will be migrating servers and that this will cause a 5-10 minute downtime at some point in that week during what happens to be our core business hours. They cite for technical reasons it is impossible to give an exact date or time when this downtime will occur. My questions are:   1. If my domains are set to FORWARD to a static IP on servers not hosted by the web hosting provider in question then will this affect the DNS servers correctly routing to my website?   2. Are their legitimate technical reasons for such a wide window of time, or could this just be a blanket statement to cover laziness in not being more organized with their server migrations?   3. Are such downtimes normal for web hosting providers, or should I start to consider other providers?


Point naked URL to www in cPanel

Simply I am trying to do this: When a person types `myurl.com` it will convert into `www.myurl.com` and when person types `www.myurl.com` it stays `www.myurl.com` (mainly I want to do this for search engine optimization, so Google doesn't think I have 2 domains, naked and with www.) I am pointing DNS from Netfirms to my website hosted at another hosting company that uses Litespeed on Linux instead of Apache. Control panel is cPanel and I have access to DNS management on server through it. As I know it has something to do with A records, and that's how much I know. Please be specific if you're going to answer.


Is this SPF record correct?

I need to set up a SPF record to allow an alternative IP address to send our newsletter emails. The main IP hosting the site still needs to be allowed to send email also. Would the following work?               v=spf1 mx ip4:_MAINSITE_ mx:mail._MAINSITEDOMAIN_ ip4:_ALTIP_ -all


How do I stop my vBulletin forum from having unregistered guests spamming it?

It seems my vbulletin forum is still having problems with unregistered guests spamming threads and members Inbox on the forum. Do you have a solution for this?


domain name hijacked by my hosting provider with dubious invoicing practice

Over 12 months ago I purchased a domain name and hosting package from a hosting company. Before the 12 months was up i was sent a single invoice for the same amount as I had paid for the preceding 12 months, which I paid, 1 week before it was due to expire. I received a confirmation email receipt from the hosting company for this. I then received another email from the same hosting company, a few days before the due date, informing me the domain was due to expire, if i did not renew the domain name. I immediately replied to this email asking if they had somehow messed up my payment or renewal. i copied back the email they had sent me, clearly telling me they had processed my card etc. I did not get a reply to this. a few days later, my domain started showing obnoxious advertisements, and implying i had not paid to renew my domain name. at this point i go onto their online help and opened up a chat session, where i was told that the invoice i had paid was for hosting and not for the domain name itself. i was asked if i would like to be invoiced for the domain name also? frustrated and angry (what use is a hosting package that nobody can reach?), i paid the extra $12 and was told the domain would be renewed with 24 hours. this was over a month ago. my domain still redirects to a website that shows obnoxious ads. i have been constantly told by the hosting company that a) they HAVE received my payments, and b) the domain will be on again "soon". in contradiction to this, i have also received auto generated emails from the same company (the same address in fact) informing me that i have not paid, and my domain will be deleted unless i pay them. here is an example of the sort of email I have received: > Dear xxxxx xxxx, > > We have checked, Invoice 38767 and Invoice 38329 has been paid. > > We request you to ignore the e-mails you have received, as they are auto > generated. > > Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. > > Thank you, xxxx xxxx, Support Department xxxx Inc. the last response i had from them was this: > Dear xxxx xxxx, > > We do apologize for the delay caused to you. > > Actually, we are having an issue at our domain registrar, hence the domains > do not get renewed automatically and need to be done manually, so it is > taking time for Domain renewal. > > There is no ETA but it can be estimated to be renewed in next sometime. > > Till then you may access the domain using Temporary Webpage URL : > http://0.0.0.0/$sitepreview/mydomain.com/ > > Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. > > Thank you, xxxx xxxx, Support Department xxxx Inc. In the mean time I can not use my website. What can I do to recover from this? I get the impression that they are stalling for time so the domain can be deleted, and another customer can swoop in and buy it. What is puzzling to me is they plainly acknowledge I have paid and imply the problem is out of their control, and yet when i look at the source to the page, it appears to me that they are hosting the page on their servers. it does embed a frame that contains google ads, but the actual parent html frame has a link to renew the domain, which is clearly hosted by them. how can i deal with this? for one, i was tricked into not paying the domain renewal - the initial invoice did not say it was for either for hosting or domain name registration, but that it was for "www.insertdomainhere.com". it was for the same dollar value that i paid for 12 months domain and hosting previously, which is the same dollar value the currently promote for new signups. how was i supposed to know that by paying the invoice, i would not have the domain renewed? is this sort of thing common? i have not mentioned the hosting company at this point, i may do so if enough people respond telling me this sort of thing has happened to them. basically, need to find out if this is me being singled out, in which case going public will not help me resolve it with them. if it is a common occurrence, i will name the company take it from there. is this the sort of thing a class action against a company that is clearly ripping off it's customers could bring them to their knees?


Synonyms and SEO

I have a dynamically generated PHP web page where I change randomly the page `<title>` and `<h1>` by synonyms. Will search engines index the page for all or just for one synonym? Is it good option in terms of SEO?


Editable block: CMS or PHP script?

I'm designing a Website for a restaurant. The site will be fairly static except for a 'specials' block which the client will need to update on a daily basis. I'm more of a designer/front-end developer so I was wondering if I was better off trying to make a block editable in PHP (a language I hardly ever deal with) or just create the website in a user-friendly CMS such as Wordpress (which I have some experience with) or Expression Engine (which I have no experience with but I'm told is a favorite in the design community)... certainly not Drupal, because even though I have theming experience with it, I think it would be a little overkill for just one editable block in a five-page site. I'm leaning towards an easy to use CMS because I'm really just not comfortable writing my own PHP especially since I guess a PHP solution would also require an authentication solution so only the client could get in to edit their info. Any insight would be appreciated!


setting up facebook 'insights for your web site' linkdoes not provide fb:admin tag

I've set up a facebook app and am now trying to get the fb:admin tags using the insights page at https://www.facebook.com/insights/. when I click the 'insights for your web site' link the pop up does not give me the metatags that the help pages suggest should appear. As a result of this if I click the 'Get Insights' it throws the error;               No admin data found at root webpage http://www.domain.com/. Insights requires admin data at this root webpage for the specified URL www.domain.com


Google's Opinion on Javascript Page Refresh

I was wondering if anyone knows Google's view on this. My company has a homepage that features a lot of 3rd parties on it and it needs to inform customers which ones are currently online, which aren't, and which are currently busy. Because this constantly changes, we have the homepage refresh to show the most relevant and up-to-date content to our users. I'm not using a meta refresh element in the http-equiv parameter to do this. Instead I have this js element to refresh the page: window.setTimeout("refreshPage()", 120000); I just want to know whether people think Google might consider this a violation of the content guidelines or not. Or if it's not an outright violation, then at least if Google frowns on this or not. It doesn't redirect the user to a different page or anything, just refreshes the page so that they can see the most relevant content.


New domain and submission to search engines

I have registered a new domain with a hosting company. They offer the feature that for each new domain there is an associated placeholder page. Actually it is a "Site not configured page" with some technical text and links to the hosting site. I could:   1. submit its URL to search engines right now   2. remove the page and submit the URL when the site will be online (could be a couple of months)   3. replace the default page with "coming soon" contents and submit the URL   4. opt for simplicity and add a blank html page having a focused and well descriptive title and maybe some meta tag   5. other? I prefer 4 over 3 because at the moment there aren't precise project details to provide. What's the proper way to notify search engines that soon this site will be online, without getting penalized for side effects I'm not considering or aware of?


Ubuntu server MySQL remote access from MySQL Workbench

I have a newly install Ubuntu installed the MySQL server. After the basic config:   * I changed the _my.cnf_ file and commented out the `bind_address`   * I can start the server and added iptable for `3306`.   * I also added the privileges to MySQL server as follow:      * `GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%'`     * `IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd' WITH GRANT OPTION;`     * `FLUSH PRIVILEGES;`     * `exit` However, after I connected from the MySQL workbench, it shows no database. But it seems that have login. Anyone have faced that or can help me?


Google analytics Real time continously showing visitors from one location

I have two sites about tablet pc.   In "Real-Time" option in Google analytics, both sites at any movement of time shows active visitors from **Putney** which is located in UK. One the site is mytabletguru.com. What I found odd is that both the sites is meant for the Indian audience as both have details about the tablet that are available in India. Is this normal? ![Screenshots of Real Time](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LOSdV.png)


How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?

Several of my site's pages are appearing in search results with `[Translate this page]` next to it. When I click that it takes me to Google Translate and translates my page "from Catalan to English". The pages are in English but have a couple of foreign words (actually Japanese romanisations, not Catalan) that appear to be tripping Google up. A few weeks ago I set the html tag to `<html lang="en">` which from research appears to be the best method to specify the language of a document. Google has cached the pages with this attribute but it is still offering to translate. More research led me to a "notranslate" attribute which prevents translation entirely: `<html lang="en" class="notranslate">`. The problem now is users cannot translate from English to their desired language! Are there any other solutions that force Google to parse my site as English only?


Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?

We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting them up as redirects to our primary site? I am of the opinion that the only reason to redirect is if there is some chance a visitor might type it in by hand because they can't remember our URL. Am I missing something?


How to combine pages authority into one page?

I have several pages about an entity. To illustrate, an example:   * John Smith Overview   * John Smith Places He Grew Up In   * John Smith Companies he worked for   * John Smith His HighSchool Friends Currently all are accessible to search engines. I'm thinking about removing all the pages as far as search engines are concerned and focus all of the SE traffic on the main Overview Page while keeping this page distribution for users. In order to do that I was thinking about doing a 301 redirect from all pages about 'John Smith' to his Overview page. The content itself will be available to users in a new url that will be blocked through robots.txt. The idea is to focus all current SEO power into one page and that way rank higher for the search term 'John Smith'. Is that a good idea? Is there a different way to combines pages authority into one main page?


Website for a directory listing of taxi services?

I'm trying to build a self-listing website around a taxi service domain name that I have. I am looking for a simple script / program that allows users to register, put up details about their taxi service - where they operate, what their contact numbers are, etc. I'm not looking for a sophisticated program - bares bones is perfect.


I'm building you a website. How can I make it easy to transfer ownership?

I just completed my first web development course. I know HTML and CSS basics and an ounce of JavaScript. Still, this is enough to build websites for people. But they will want to be able to edit the content. When their addresses change and their portfolios grow, updates will have to be made. How can I easily transfer ownership of a web property?


Sitemap XML version vs simple text (urls list) version, do you know what are the pros?

I usualy submit simple text urls list as sitemap on Google webmaster tools. It's just a matter of simplicity, a simple text file is lightweight, easier to read also for humans (actually for me). :) What's the cath then in submitting an XML sitemap? Any pros you found out in your experince? Thanks,


which among these is good according to url optimization for search engine - google? Keyword - **hot jobs in paris** paris.hotjobsin.com hotjobsin.com/hotjobs/paris hotjobsin.com/paris/hot-jobs-in-paris.html hotjobsin.com/hot-jobs-in-paris.com paris.hotjobsin.com/hot-jobs-in-paris.com **Any thoughts.**


Clarify "canonical" word: Can someone please list the various uses of this word in SEO context, and point out correct or incorrect uses of it?

I think the authoritative use of the word "canonical" in the SEO discipline dates back to this 2006 blog post by Matt Cuts on cononicalization: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/ Personally, I recall the first use of the word in referring to penalizing sites that were buying up many keyword stuffed URLs and pointing them all to the same site, aka "Canonical URLs." My curiosity caused me to discover that there are math and science uses of the word, AND that the term CNAME in DNS means "canonical name." At this point, and on this website in particular, I see that word tossed around so frequently and I suspect some of the uses of it are technically wrong, or that some of its uses could better be served with a different word or phrase. But I could be wrong about this, fueled by my less-than-complete understanding of what canonical means in all of its SEO contexts. So, then,   * **what are the correct uses for the word canonical (in SEO context)?** And, if my suspicions are correct,   * **what are some of the common mis-uses of the word,**   * **and what should be used in its place?**


Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to market a web app?

I'm a developer first and foremost. **I write web apps but have a hard time generating traffic and converting potential users** once I've released my product into the wild. I know I need to learn more about marketing but I don't know where to start as I've no baseline to judge the quality of the materials I stumble across. **Does anyone know any websites, blogs, e-books or other resources for learning how to market effectively?**


How to add iframe to vbulletin?

I want users to be able to embed to iframe videos, no matter from which site. Currently when you do that, the system seems to strip the iframe. I am wondering how to enable posting iframe. I also I'd like to know whether there are any risks in embeding iframes that justified limiting the ability to certain user groups. Thanks


@ or (at) in contact forms?

I have was wondering if it is better to use @ or at in contact form when I'm displaying emails, I've seen in many websites that when they display a email, it looks like this name(at)email.com but it links to name @email.com, I've been told that this is made because Google could take this as Spam. ¿Is it true?


Directory template for Wordpress - Free or Paid

I'm looking for a wordpress template to create a website's directory. Anyone know? The template can be paid or free.


is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?

Last day when i visited google webmaster tools, i found crawler errors for 42 not found pages. all the pages were having "luminous-solutions.net" at last in the URL. Like http://article-stack.com/2010/08/page/luminous-solutions.net I had never written any post which is having this word. For the safety, i had manually searched it on my site using internal and external search facility. I also had searched in source code as well. I had searched in database, newly installed plugins, theme code.... But i found nothing with "luminous-solutions.net" 404 means, some text in contents are pointing to these links. But link doesn't exist. I had manually checked those pages as well. May this fault occurred from google crawler itself or really some virus infected my site?


Which event log file does IIS 7 app pool log to

Which event log files does the IIS 7.0 Application Pool Recycling log to?   I want to check out at what time the default app pool automatically recylces.


SMTP Error: Could not open a socket to the SMTP server

I'm not sure how familiar some of you are on Invision Power Board(IPB). However this question someone includes their forum system. We currently host multiple servers with multiple web servers among other servers for various uses. One of which is a web server we setup using iRedMail.com We can login and send/receive email's just fine, however we are trying to setup SMTP for our forum(IPB) to send validation emails, email change requests, newsletters, etc. As of right now, when I try to send a test email through the forum i get the error: "Could not open a socket to the SMTP server (0:)". It seems as if IPB is giving out the error code 0 but it doesn't actually exist. I'm almost positive the information for the server is correct, because it reaches the server and then I'm lost after that. Everything is running on the mail server so I'm not sure why it's unable to open a socket the server.


How I quantify the success of a folksonomy?

**CONCEPTS:** completeness, accuracy, consistency, stability, relevancy **SEMI-RELATE-SUBJECTS:** taxonomy, data quality, indexes, keywords, SEO, SEM **FORMULAS:** ? ? ?


My Joomla site hacked

someone hacked into our servers. Not sure when. They have created this folder "/public_html/modules/com_gcalendar" and some files in it. any one of had the same attack? any findings?


Does 301 redirecting all pages in an existing domain exempt a domain from the sandbox period in Google?

I have a domain I use for my blog that had originally been intended for a short lived project. As the domain doesn't really suit for a blog, I have been thinking about changing it. However, some pages on the blog have a fair amount of highly ranked search terms. I know with new domains, there is a sandbox period where Google doesn't rank them really well. I also know as far as PR goes, if a page 301 redirects to another page, Google considers them the same. Does this mean that if I change my domain and 301 redirect all pages from the old domain to the new one, my new domain will have all the search rankings of my old domain? Or will it have to go through the sandbox period again?


Is my website is too slow?

I checked the speed of my website with http://tools.pingdom.com/ . **Results:**               Per. Grade = 85/100     Req.s = 18     Load Time = 1.94s     Page Size= 96kb      Is this result is good for my website(also consider SEO)?


Should I support facebook login or openid login?

What are the pros and cons of each? Does it make any sense supporting both? Which is easier for users/to implement?


What errors should I create custom pages for besides 404?

I know most sites typically create a custom 404 page. Are there any other custom error pages I should create? Or just watch my logs and see which ones are hit more frequently? **[Edit]**   This is for a PHP web app, not a blog or static html site.


Should users be deleted after inactivity on a website?

When you have a social website or a website where you can register, would you eventually delete them after a certain time (after a year of inactivity) or would you rather keep their account records for ever? I know websites like Facebook have large amount of inactive, duplicated and fake accounts. So I'm wondering if after two years of inactivity it would be alright to send the account a warning email of deletion unless they log in. Just thinking of a clean and efficient database management or any implications this may cause to new potential users.


I'm running my website through the W3C Markup validator(http://validator.w3.org/) and I'm getting the following error: The aria-controls attribute must point to an element in the same document. …"ui-accordion-1-header-2" aria-controls="ui-accordion-1-panel-0" tabindex="0"> I've read through the documentation and I not sure where I'm going wrong. My HTML looks like this:

Link 1

Link 2

      As you can see I have aria-controls="ui-accordion-1-panel-0" and the subsequent tag is id="ui-accordion-1-panel-0". I'm not sure what is causing the errors. Any help appreciated.


.htaccess password protection generates 500 internal server error

I have created a .htpasswd file using htaccess tools of which I have uploaded to the root of my web hosting space (/public_html is my web root). I created a .htaccess file which referenced the .htpasswd as follows:               AuthType Basic     AuthName "Protected Area"     AuthUserFile /.htpasswd     Require valid-user      However when I uploaded this .htaccess file to the directory I want to password protect accessing the folder via the URL in my browser returns a 500 internal server error. I have used this same method before successfully. Am I referencing the .htpasswd incorrectly? I also uploaded it to /public_html/ in case .htaccess interprets / as the web root, but the error remains. Any ideas what is wrong?


Apache .htaccess URL rewriting is not working

I am using this code in _.htaccess_ but the last line not giving any response:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user_pro.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$/images image.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #this line not giving any response


SEO: Product page: categories link structure

I am working on commerce site and we are facing a dilemma that has to do with SEO on product page: if sub-category links should be visible or not in each product page. In detail: We own 8 top categories with lots subcategories in each one and each sub-category owns multiple products. So, my question is: Should the menu of subcategories be visible as they appear in each top category & subcategory or since a product page is supposed to be focused on the product, should the menu be removed? Checking Amazon, Ebay, Etsy and other big commerce sites, they only use the path (breadcrumbs) and they do not show the other subcategories in product pages.


Custom url for tumblr posts

I have a tumblr blog and would like to do the following: 1) How can I make a static main page without posts?   2) Hows can I create posts with a custom URL like **www.myname.tumblr/news/** , instead of **/posts/**?


What is the SKYPE_TOOLBAR meta?

I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a "new" meta called "SKYPE_TOOLBAR", it looks like that:               <meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />       I've never seen that before and I don't manage to find relevant info about it, does someone know what is its use? PS. There is nothing else related to Skype on the website.


Google visits on Statcounter. How?

In my website’s Statcounter report, I found page views from Google. I thought it may be a Google bot’s visit but I found that particular visit comes through a search query (`example.com+keyword`) and it also showing some other details like Browser, OS and Resolution. If it is Google bot then how did those details come from? Does is it Google bot or a human working on Google? See this image: ![Google visits on statcounter](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LSAeo.png)


effect of page speed on ad revenue

I'm thinking of slowing my pageloads a bit, and want to know how much ad revenue will decrease due to the slowness. For ads on a revenue-per-impression (CPM) basis, I have to worry about   * decreased initial traffic ("landings", if you will) and   * an increase in the number of people who leave. The second one -- those who leave -- has been covered. But is there a good, recent study on the decrease in landings? (One thing that affects landings is the fact that Google shows a slower-loading page lower among search results, though general site reputation also depends on page speed and affects landings.) And as to ads on revenue-per-click (CPC) basis: Are there any data on the decrease in clicks when pages are slower-loading? (E.g., on whether those fewer people who stick around on a slower site are those who click more (or less), and to what extent.)


Working with different URL structures

As I'm quite newbie to this field, I've doubts and there are some I couldn't find on Google, i.e: If I'm not wrong, _index.html_ makes it possible to avoid to add the filename to the url, **www.example.com/** is equal to **www.example.com/index.html**. And that works for the following subdirectories, right? **www.example.com/music/**   * Is there any other way to achieve this without using an index.html file? (I've read smth about converting dynamic urls to static: **./?var1=value1 &varN=valueN** -> **./value1/valueN** )   * How can I convert **www.example.com/music/** to **music.example.com/** and why should it be used? Thanks in advance!


Do your 'fetch as google bot' allowances refresh?

in google webmaster tools you can fetch as google bot - which you can do 500 times, and you also have submit to index that you can do 10 times, do these allowances refresh or are they for the life of the site. ie, once you've used them all up thats it ?


Should schema.org structured data for products be used on category pages on an e-commerce site?

I use schema.org structured data markup on all of my product pages. The products are well indexed in Google, and the meta data shows up mostly as expected. My question is a sub-question to the question Is there a problem in having same product with different names in different pages?. Should schema.org markup be used for products on category pages that list products? I was personally under the opinion that structured data for an "item" should be used explicitly for the page that represents that product. That said, I can also understand the idea that having other properly marked up data pointing to the same URI as the product as also being beneficial. So, should products on listing pages be using scheme.org meta data, or not?