How to prevent Google from finding my admin index page?

I am running a website but for some days i stopped it and put the under- construction page because the Index of admin page is visible to the outside world through the Google search. One of my friend told me that your websites index is visible and its one step away to access the password file and he shows me that very simply using the Google search. How can i prevent this and i am hosting my site with a hosting company and i report about this to them but they simply replied to me still its secure so you no need to worry... am i really don need to worry and continue my site with the visible index of admin page?


the right way of specifying website files in html

i specify my website's internal files like this for my website: www.mscaspian.com ` but when i validate it with w3c it says there is an error in the last part, '>' . i don't understand why this is wrong. is there anything i'm missing? it says: > Bad value ../Nexus components/css/component.css for attribute href on > element link: Illegal character in path segment: not a URL code point.Syntax > of IRI reference: Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or > http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces > should be escaped as %20. i read the NFC link they provided but Really couldn't figure out what's wrong with it! Using HTML5 and CSS3


Confusion over W3C POWDER standard (PICS alternative)

Now that PICS is dead, I still need an easy way to tell users that my website is for mature audiences only. I intend to use PICS tags, but POWDER is said to be the new standard. Is it really used? And how do I set it up? Are there simple example XML files which I can copy for my own use?


Measuring user time until a specific event

Now I know that GA Engagement gives you an estimate of the time users spend on you page, but it's not very accurate and the max time it displays is 30 mins. I'm developing a small online game and would like to know how long people play and also what is very important how long they play until they reach a specific goal (it might take a week or so) My Idea was to use Events and Goals - but I didn't find any possibility to measure and display time until a goal is reached and time user spends daily until he reaches the goal. Is there a way?


Tracking rotating Ads with Google Tag Manager

So at the moment we have our ads setup using event tracking in Google Analytic (Universal) and they are implemented in this format:                     I would like to track these ads by position if possible because we have ads from same vendors displayed in multiple positions. I am trying to wrap my brain around how I can implement something like this in Google Tag Manager. I assume this will involve some advanced rules with RegEx? Is it something that can be passed through the dataLayer?


Traffic from a specific site considered as direct traffic

Let's say a site adds a link to my site. After that, I noticed an increase in visits to my site (and I'm sure that at least some people came to my site via this link). The problem is, when I look at my google analytics stats, I can't find the site in the traffic sources (referrals). Any ideas on why? I don't think the website in question is messing with the HTTP_REFERER.


Wordpress.Com blog XML/Site map download

Hi I happened to know that we can access the sitemap for a WordPress (WordPress.com) blog using a URL. I am quite not sure about that now, though I downloaded the XML once, I forgot the URl. Please tell me how can I download it!


Website hosting and deployment

I'm relatively new to Web Development especially when it comes to infrastructure. I have AngularJS application build and served by brunch.io locally. It uses rails-api JSON data. I'd like to deploy my angular application separately from rails server. For now, JS app is placde inside public directory of backend server and deployed together. It isn't elegant nor effective so I want to use some other hosting service. I was thinking about VPS where I could place both Angular and Ruby applications. I read about NodeJS or Nginx that can serve static files, but I don't have any knowledge or experience with these technologies. How is the best way to provide separate frontend and backend applications communicating with each other?


How do you create a mobile app that basically allows you to....?

I was wondering what the simplest and cheapest way to create a reliable mobile app (android or iphone) would be for the following situations. We are about to pick one of the following two situations:   1. If I want the mobile app to mainly contain links or buttons that direct you to specific webpages.   2. If I want the mobile app to contain an expert system, where each link is basically a question that will load you an alternate set of text depending on which link or button you chose. Are either of these simple to make and free of cost to develop? We're looking for the most simple and direct way to go about this. The final goal is to be able to make this app available in the android market or apple store (for a small, one-time fee for users who want to use it). Is this a step that can be planned out _after_ the creation of the app itself, or does this need to be taken into account from the start?


Differences in Gmail on BlackBerry to iPhone?

I've been using Gmail on my iPhone happily for a while. Now for a friend I need to set up Gmail on a BlackBerry. From reading up it seems you have to enable IMAP for the Gmail account. I thought that POP downloads emails from the server where as IMAP does not. I'm confused as on my iPhone, when I read an email it's marked as read on the server (which I see when I use webmail or Mac mail to look at the same email account). However I never turned on IMAP for my account. I went through my iPhone's default email set up, so is it in fact using POP? If so, what are the behavioural differences that my friend using IMAP on BlackBerry will experience compared to my iPhone set up, which seems nice and intuitive.


Static page generator quazi CMS

Are there some mainstream software packages that generate static pages? Sort of like CMS, but without all the fluffy parts. I'm perfectly fine with editing pages using a text editor, but I would like to edit something more user friendly than HTML (markup, wiki text, etc...). I'm just redoing my personal website, and the layers of layers of Drupal modules I need to install is just getting crazy.


Will adding "www." to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?

I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is "http://example.com". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to www.example.com, via a typical .htaccess refinement. The source problem I'm trying to fix is that In-Page analytics does not load. When accessing In-Page analytics in the new GA, I get the following error: > We've identified problems in your setup. These may cause problems loading > In-Page Analytics. Your site doesn't load ga.js from Google. If you host the > Google tracking code on your own servers, it isn't updated automatically and > can miss important changes. We didn't find a tracking snippet on your site. > In-Page Analytics cannot load. Please make sure you have tracking installed > correctly. If your snippet is included in a separate JavaScript file, you'll > have to manually check it is being loaded correctly. When loading In-Page Analytics in full screen mode -- visting the domain directly -- I get: > Access denied. Please try relaunching In-Page Analytics from the report. After researching the issue online, I've found the following proposed fixes:   1. Log out of the target site when using GA, in the case your site doesn't load the tracking codes for logged in users (our current Drupal configuration indeed does this)   2. Clearing cache   3. Clearing cookies - specifically the GASO cookie   4. Ensuring your GA domain setting uses www if your site redirects to www forcefully I've tried items 1-3 and the have not addressed the issue. I would like to try #4, but want to make sure this change won't impact data I've already collected and that GA will consider all data collected before and after the change as the same site.


Any free service like Google Apps?

Google Apps offers a good opportunity to host emails externally. Definitely, Google should not be alone in this market, but I've not heard of any other alternative. Is there any other company offering free email hosting?


How do I get rid of unwanted gaps in a horizontal navigation bar?

That was my question, in the form of a question. Fortunately, I've already whipped up some code and can only point you to errors in the html.. although I don't know what they are. Here's what I've got: http://cssdesk.com/uDaLg When the extra navigation links (which would normally be characterized by line breaks) are laid out in my navigation bar, my html puts a gap in the padding on the right side. I have highlighted the background in case you're overly skeptical that it is in fact my css. Of course, you can also go and view the css for yourself.


Fake PR of a website

I just saw a website, its PR 10. Now this is impossible as the websites quality is nowhere near PR 10. I know that one can change to PR to show 10 if he redirects the site but in this case, its not getting redirected anywhere. I am pretty sure something is wrong with it. Please help me out. The domain is `www.virginia11.info`


In creating a rich snippet (breadcrumbs and sitelinks), is there a need to markup content in more than one markup language?

I started tagging all of my data with their appropriate schema.org vocabulary. I'd like my site to display a rich snippet/enhanced listing in Google. Is there ever a case where you would need to include code from more than one markup language (schema, RDFa, Microformats)


Anywhere to get a list of referrer spammers?

I do my own log processing using my own self-written analyzer. That means I have to deal with the continual nuisance of referrer spammers. Is there anywhere I can get an up-to-date list of referrer spammers?


Does Google Analytics have a way to compare two timeframes?

Our site recently took a huge traffic hit that we can't attribute to anything. Is there a way to ask Google Analytics to compare traffic patterns and show any statistical changes between two timeframes? (Or 3rd party software)


What's the quickest/cheapest way to get URL rewriting implemented?

Related to another question - if you need to get URL rewriting implemented ASAP, what are some methods that you've used or know of that can speed this up?


RSS feed : wrong encoding?

I just migrated my website to a brand new server, and now i'm having a weird issue. Some characters on my RSS feed are not properly encoded, as you can see here : http://www.windowsphonefr.com/mise-a-jour-de-facebook-sur-windows-phone-8-des- performances-au-top/20392/feed The characters affected are <, >, ', and ". Accented (á, é, ê, à, è, ...) are correctly displayed. How can I fix this ?


What is the most secure environment for multiple CMS sites?

I wish to run about 50 Joomla or WordPress low-traffic websites on 1 server, or part of a server. Each website will be managed by its own, naive owner who will have be able to access the Joomla or Wordpress backend of the website. I am concerned about security and isolation as my users will periodically get into trouble by not protecting their sites properly. Two alternatives I know of exist: Run one Linux system with multiple websites under Apache. Follow current Joomla and WordPress security tips. Increase the isolation of the individual sites by using mpm-itk, which will allow each website to run as its own user. The alternative to this is to run virtualization software such as the Xen hypervisor. Each site would have its own, virtual Linux system. I lack the experience needed to make this decision and I am asking which path to take. Obviously, there may be other alternatives that I haven't considered.


1 click backup for my websites

I have a windows reseller account that I only really use for personal use. The host company doesn't currently offer a 1 click backup. I am looking for something to automate some kind of backup that does the following:   * Backups all files   * Backups all databases I know other companies offering such a tool but I am not looking. I have thought about writing a tool that does this but thought there might be something out there that does this already?


Has anyone been able to convert a site's media content from flash to html5?

I'm looking to convert a site from Flash based video to HTML5, the current video uses time marks to display slides (kind of like how youtube has ads on their videos). But the difference between Youtube and my site is that it doesn't show up inside the video, the slides are displayed next to the video. Is there any way I can accomplish this with HTML5? Or do I have to use Javascript for this? _If this isn't clear enough, please let me know._


Site-wide redirect with Tomcat4

Disclaimer: My webmastering experience is almost nil. Apologies if anything seems ignorant - if it sounds that way, it probably is. My employer is in the middle of switching over from one version of their website to another, and for the time being would like for the old site to redirect to the new one, but have the pages of the old site preserved as a backup of sorts. After some Google searches, I found that an easy way to perform a site-wide redirect is by adding the following line to a .htaccess file:               Redirect 301 / http://www.website.com      Prior to this task being given to me, the site did not have a .htaccess file, so I created one and it contains _only_ that line. Once that file was saved, attempts to load the old site's URL yielded 500 Internal Server Error. I am certain that I'm missing something which might be obvious to an experienced webmaster. What more do I need to do to make this redirect hold?


How can I let users pay other users on my website?

I'm looking for a way to let users on my website pay other users on my website for goods or services and for me to take a percentage of the transaction as well as store the transaction data in database. Is there currently a service out there that will let me do this? Is Paypal capable of this? I know I can receive payments from users and send payments to users, but I want a way to directly let users pay others directly or even pay me directly and then me automatically pay the user who should be receiving the money once the payment clears. This will be a US only website for now and I'm using PHP and MySql if that makes a difference.


Does description change impact the google ranking and/or crawl rates?

I am thinking about adding some randomization to my shopping cart descriptions and pricing. I am not talking about meta-description, but about actual product descriptions. Would content change improve any of my stats with google? I am especially interested in crawl rates.


Google Analytics banner?

I use Google Analytics on my site... But, I would like to display some traffic info to the users, like geo localization or just a hit-counter on the main page of my site. Does Google offer something like this?


Sex - in domain name is this bad?

In short I am working with a company that does trade shows... one of their new domain names has the word 'sex' in but completely innocently. EXAMPLE: www. someproductsexpo .com (Being 'some' 'products' 'expo'). The content is completely inoffensive and I do not see there being any other things that would flag either the web or any emails sent from anyone@someproductsexpo.com as inappropriate. I was just wondering if any has experiences of any domains like this or comments to add? Thanks


Where can/should I submit my sitemap.xml?

I know of Google and Bing, but are there other places I can/should submit my sitemap.xml? And do they support pinging?


How do I password protect a directory with a customizable login page?

At the moment, I have a directory that's password protected by .htaccess and .htpasswd. The problem with this is that when a visitor comes to my site, they get an ugly inbuilt Secure Area message rather than going through a friendlier-looking login page. The only other way I know to password protect online is using PHP files that redirect if the user doesn't have a login cookie, but the problem with this is that although it protects pages of the site, it doesn't protect other site content (such as image and PDF files). How can I make sure that all files within a directory are protected by a login while still presenting that login in a user-friendly way?


CGI program can't access external sites through a proxy

We have a local "server" machine (Web, Samba, LTSP, DHCP.. etc) 192.168.0.11 running Mandriva / Apache2 which connects to internet using another machine as a proxy (Vista 192.168.0.2:6588). Browsers, wget, mcc on 0.11 are able to connect to the net without any problems. However, CGI programs running on this machine are not able to fetch data from external sites. The same programs work correctly when run under Apache on 0.2 machine. Have tried:                   <IfModule mod_proxy.c>               <Proxy *>               Order deny,allow               Allow from all               </Proxy>           ProxyRemote * http://192.168.0.2:6588         NoProxy 192.168.0.1/254         </IfModule>      in the httpd config file. The proxy module has been enabled. Is this the correct line of thinking? How to verify that the proxy settings are working? Any other config files need to be checked? Thanks!


Creating a Template Like System in cPanel

I am creating a medium sized website using cPanel and their File Manager system and the majority of my pages are going to be the same with a different title and content section and I wanted to see if there is a system for making one general template file and then having all the other pages inherit from that file so all I have to do is have a content and title section and the rest of the links, headers, and whatnot can be changed throughout the site by just changing one file. Is there anything like this? I have used Jinaj2 in python and a few other systems for other server scripting languages but I am not sure how to implement it with cPanel.


Page loading problem. Page is very slow

Regarding the domain http://www.pravninasvet.com, there is a problem where it sometimes loads fast, sometimes very slow. The domain is registered by godaddy, the server is in Germany. But when the page loads very slow, the is ping normal:               Pinging pravninasvet.com [91.194.91.202] with 32 bytes of data:          Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=55     Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=55     Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=55     Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=55          Ping statistics for 91.194.91.202:         Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),     Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:         Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 52ms, Average = 51ms      Can this be a problem with the server being in Germany and domain registered at godaddy? Or what else can be the problem?


Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains

We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have `example.com` as the main domain and have assigned all the sub-departments their own subdomain.   There will be `tutorials.example.com`, `videos.example.com`, `articles.example.com`, etc.   Now for marketing reasons we plan to register `examplevids.com`, `exampletuts.com`, etc.   The catch here is all these domains should somehow point to their respective subdomains. We can either use a permanent redirect or have and iframe to display the content directly from the subdomains.   Now I wonder which approach is better considering SEO rules. Will using iframes be considered replicating content by search engines? Or is it at all wise to have different domains? Thank you.


IIS 7 URL Rewrite Rule using query string variable

Trying to create a URL Rewrite rule for IIS 7.5 to read the query string parameter and redirect requests to a new URL structure - for example: `http://www.example.com/people/profile.aspx?dw` to a new more SEO friendly URL at: `http://www.example.com/our-people/profiles/dw` Any good examples or guidance?


SIMPLEST way to set up password protection for a static site, with basic admin UI?

I have a static site. I would like the simplest approach to password protecting a directory, with a basic admin UI for adding/removing users. I will have so few users that I don't care about performance. I don't care if it's PHP or Django or whatever, I just want a complete software package.   * Apache basic auth isn't good, because you can't log out. Nor is there a UI for adding users.   * I tried throwing everything behind Django auth and serving the files through Django. However, Chrome treats all my text/css headers as text/plain, so I don't get any stylesheets showing.   * I can't use mod_xsendfile on my server because I can't reconfigure Apache to add new modules. I think this approach is overkill anyway.   * I can try configuring Nginx's X-Accel-Redirect, however that requires implementing all the Django code for auth myself, and I'd prefer an existing solution. However, this is my backup plan. Is there a code package that implements authentication with basic admin for a static site?


What is required to create local business rich-snippets complete with sitelinks AND breadcrumbs?

I have a local business directory site. I would like to markup my business listing 'profile' level pages for display as enhanced listings/rich-snippets complete with business names, addresses and phone numbers. I would also like to display site-links and path-based breadcrumbs to help users navigate site directory hierarchy (which is deep). Is there a limit to the amount of breadcrumbs a site can leave? Is there a separate limit on the number of breadcrumbs which Google/Bing will display in the SERP? What kind of markup language(s) would be needed to best position my site to show site-links AND breadcrumbs? For example: > Find a business > Browse by Location > State > City > Zip > or > Find a business > Choose Service > Browse by location > State > City


nginx proxy rewrite not matching

I'm setting Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass A few of them I have to add rewrite rules to strip the folder off, however for this particular service, the rewrite rule isn't working on styles/images. Any tips?               ~$ tail /var/log/nginx/error.log     2012/02/09 10:57:19 [error] 4103#0: *10 open() "/var/www/images/blank.gif" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 203.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.net, request: "GET /images/blank.gif HTTP/1.1", host: "example.net", referrer: "https://example.net/hp/"          ~$ cat /etc/nginx/proxy-control.conf;      proxy_connect_timeout   59s;     proxy_send_timeout      600;     proxy_read_timeout      600;     proxy_buffer_size       64k;     proxy_buffers           16 32k;     proxy_pass_header       Set-Cookie;     proxy_hide_header       Vary;          proxy_busy_buffers_size         64k;     proxy_temp_file_write_size      64k;          proxy_set_header        Accept-Encoding         '';     proxy_ignore_headers    Cache-Control           Expires;     proxy_set_header        Referer                 $http_referer;     proxy_set_header        Host                    $host;     proxy_set_header        Cookie                  $http_cookie;     proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP               $remote_addr;     proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Host        $host;     proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Server      $host;     proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For         $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;          proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Ssl         on;     proxy_set_header        Authorization           '';          proxy_redirect         http://example.net/ /;     proxy_redirect         https://example.net/ /;               ~$ tail /etc/nginx/services.conf;     location /hp {         rewrite           ^/hp$          https://example.net/hp/           permanent;                                                       $         rewrite           /hp/(.*)      /$1                             break;              proxy_pass        http://192.168.1.2/;         include           proxy-control.conf;         include           auth-basic.conf;     }      chrome errors;               https://example.net/images/blank.gif Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)     https://example.net/images/final-hp-login_1x11.gif Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)


Ranking drop after using reverse proxy for blog subdirectory and robots.txt for old blog subdomain

We have a 3Dcart store and a WordPress blog hosted on a separate server. Originally, we had a CNAME set up to point the blog to http://blog.example.com/. However, in our attempt to boost link-based and traffic-based authority on the main site, we've opted to do a reverse proxy to http://www.example.com/blog/. It’s been about two months since we finished the reverse proxy migration. It appears that everything is technically working as intended, including some robots and sitemap changes; the new URLs are even generating some traffic, as indicated on Google Analytics. While Google has been indexing the new URL locations, they’re ranking very poorly, even for non-competitive, long-tail keywords. Meanwhile, the old subdomain URLs are still ranking mostly as well as they used to (even though they aren’t showing meta titles and descriptions due to being blocked by robots.txt). Our working theory is that Google has an old index of the subdomain URLs, and is considering the new URLs to be duplicate content, since it’s being told not to crawl the subdomain and therefore can’t see the rel canonicals we have in place. To resolve this, we’ve updated the subdomain’s robot.txt to no longer block crawling and indexing. Theoretically, seeing the canonical tag on the subdomain pages will resolve any perceived duplicate content issues. In the meantime, we were wondering if anyone would have any other ideas. We are very concerned that we’ll be losing valuable traffic, as we’re entering our on season at the moment.


Verify 2 cookies with mod_rewrite before serving images

I have the following mod_rewrite rule, which works fine in my Apache 2.x on CentOS 6 Linux machine, but is not complete:                   RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !id         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-         RewriteRule .* /images/dummy.png [L]      because I'm trying to change it in 2 ways: 1) Actually 2 cookies (and not just 1 as above) should be present: **id** and **auth** (but I don't know, how to do **(X or Y) and Z** with mod_rewrite) 2) I'd like to verify that the value of the **auth** cookie is a 32 hex chars string (an MD5 hash) and that the value of **id** cookie is numeric. _The background is that I've gotten a bill for EUR 1000,- fromGetty Images, because one of the Drupal users on my server has supposedly used their picture as avatar. I'm not looking for any lawyer or pseudo-lawyer advices here, just for the way to display a dummy image instead of real user pictures to web crawlers._ And yes, I've noticed in the mod_rewrite doc, that I could pass the cookie values to an external script through mod_rewrite (for verifying the MD5 hash), but I'd like to tackle this later. **UPDATE 2:** I've come up with the following                  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-        RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !auth=[a-fA-F0-9]{32} [OR]        RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !id=[0-9]+        RewriteRule .* /images/dummy.png [L]      but I'm not sure, if the above RewriteCond's act as **X and (Y or Z)** or **(X and Y) or Z**


What latency do you expect when serving static files?

I'm running some latency measurements using Web Page Speed Test on a static javascript file. I compared hosting the file at four locations: Host Monster, Amazon S3, Amazon Cloudfront, and Heroku Static Sites. The results I'm getting are around 240ms-390ms, the worst being Host Monster. The tests were run from the default Web Page Speed Test data center at Dulles, VA, USA. The S3 zone I used was "US standard". My question is - isn't 240ms+ latency a bit too much for just serving a javascript file (33kb minified before gzip - Host Monster and Heroku have out- of-the-box gzip, it's a bit less seamless for Amazon Web Services do not so I didn't enable it for this test). What top latency should I expect when serving a static 30kb file from the US to the US? How can we to the sub 100ms latency zone? **Edit** Here is a sample latency breakdown from Web Page Speed Test on Amazon CloudFront:               DNS Lookup: 49 ms     Initial Connection: 59 ms     Time to First Byte: 123 ms     Content Download: 28 ms


Apache, www-data and custom user permission

I'm running an ubuntu server with apache and I have web directory which is owned by the user www-data and the group www-data. WordPress works great in this directory. It can auto update and I can upload files. I want to also create a web directory which is owned by another custom user I'm going to add. However when I change the owner on the web directory from www-data to the customer user WordPress is no longer to auto update and I can not upload unless I change the group permission. Is there a way to make my custom user act like the apache www-data user?


What are the most common SEO issues with Sharepoint?

As far as I know **Microsoft SharePoint** does not provide many "out of the box" essential features to enable good performance in the search engines. Here are the main issues I found:   1. Little control over the length and structure of the URL.   2. Default redirections 302 (temporary) redirects instead of 301 (permanent).   3. The standard version of SharePoint 2007 creates pages with URLs like this: `/Pages/Thisisatestpageinsharepoint2007.aspx`. This URL structure has poor usability. A better URL would look like: `/test-page-sharepoint-2007.aspx`.   4. By default SharePoint will create the URL based on the title page. This can be a problem from a SEO perspective becasue the content of a page could always change but the structure of URLs should always be persistent.   5. SharePoint does not support the automated creation and updating of XML Sitemap   6. You can not add custom meta tags such as `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` to control searche engines robots.  To overcome some of these problems you can install and configure specialized plugins or extensions. Other problems may require a more complex customization of the application code. Do you know if the current version of SharePoint still have those issue and if there are other SEO issues I should aware of?


Hashbang, pjax, or djax for dynamic pages in WordPress?

I am modifying a current WP theme that uses child pages loaded into tabs via jQuery and hashtags. For example, `http://example.com/category` would be the parent page with tabs. Clicking on one of those tabs loads the child page, which WordPress knows as `http://example.com/category/tab1`, into the div dynamically, and changes the URL to `http://example.com/category/#tab1`. What I'm trying to do is make the pages crawlable by Google, so that our tabs show up in search results as individual pages. Google's own documentation seems to recommend using the "hashbang" method (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started), and then serving up HTML snapshots of each tab. But other developers I've read strongly recommend not using this method, and instead using pjax to dynamically load the content while making the URLs appear to be separate pages, so the SE will crawl it anyway. further research showed that djax is a slimmed down version of pjax, written specifically for WordPress. I'm a little out of my depth here in trying to figure out which path I should go down, and how to convert the theme I'm working on to one of these methods. So, my question is: Should I go with Google's recommendation of the hashbang method, or pjax, or djax? Why? Whichever one I should start developing with, can anyone provide me with a way to get started learning how to use it and implement it? Most of the documentation I've found is way out of my depth.


Google Analytics w3wp.exe?

In this link Google defines a Visit. The key part that interests me now, is this: "If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session." Would an idle user (e.g. an employee whose PC is left on over the weekend) record "activity" as a result of the w3wp.exe process recycling? Our site caching model refreshes every 30 minutes. Could this trigger "activity" for an idle user? I've asked this on the Google Analytics forum a week ago and no response.


Alternative to Google Analytics with A/B testing and PDF scheduling

Is there a hosted solution that competes with Google Analytics and has some of the heavy hitting features:   * A/B testing with regression analysis   * Conversion tracking   * Funnels   * Schedulable reports that email PDF files


Attemping to setup Domain NameServers but it doesn't appear to work

I'm having a little trouble setting up my domain redirect. The domain name is registered with Namesco and the hosting is on Wiserhosting. Wiserhosting has provided me nameservers of   * Nameserver 1: ns1.wiserhosting.co.uk   * Nameserver 2: ns2.wiserhosting.co.uk I configured these into the DNS settings page on Namesco for this domain as `hostname: www, type:CNAME, result:ns1.wiserhosting.co.uk`. but when I go to the URL I get redirected to `/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi` page which simply shows `mu.wiserhosting.co.uk`. I am finding it weird that I have two Nameservers but am only able to configure one. I get a duplication error if I add the ns2 with another www host. Wiser also provided an IP address of 78.129.233.118 and I've added that as an A record. but still makes no difference. I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong here, and who should I call? Is the redirect not configured correctly, or is it configured but not working when it gets there?


Bypassing hosting provider country block

My Apache server is located in a farm that is blocking an entire country for the sakes of 'security' and avoiding an hacking attack. I'm trying to bypass this block, and would like help in doing so. What I've thought of is creating a proxy with a different IP that will transfer all the traffic to my current Apache server that is being blocked. Can someone point out direction on what is the best way to do this along with implications I should be aware of? Is there maybe a service that provides such a solution without actually needing to find myself another server that will redirect the requests?


Email marketing service with delayed sending?

I would like to dispatch certain emails to users that sign up for my email communications at a fixed timeframe. For example, send email A after 7 days of signing up, email B after 21 days, etc. (assuming they don't unsubscribe). Are there email marketing services that can accommodate this?


How to Trigger GA Event for Every Single Pageview (of a certain type)

Thanks, edited my question. I need a reliable way to capture a GA event _whenever_ the GA tracking code fires for a particular page only. Doing so because we want to assign a dollar value to simply viewing a certain page (or type of page), and this can happen multiple times per visit, so a destination based goal isn't feasible I tried using a window.onload javascript (also tried window.onbeforeunload) to trigger the event, but I can only get about 80% of the pageviews to become events (and only about 12% for our mobile website!). Not accurate enough yet for "prime time" Thanks :)


Can google my name to reach website but not the website title

I am a counsellor. My wordpress blog is _mylocation_ counsellingandsupervision.co.uk. If I google, bing, yahoo my name my site comes up 1st or 2nd. If I google, bing, yahoo " _mylocation_ counselling supervision" in any combination the search engine does not find anything. If I have uploaded all the usual plugins etc I would like to know how search engines pick up my name but not the words of my website address.


SEO links from Facebook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase Google PR?

Does anyone know in his SEO experince if links coming from FaceBook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase PageRank on Google? I would say NO cause most of thise links are nofollow and/or stored in hidden areas (users require their account to read those pages). But lately when searching for some busineeses name, the 1st results on Google was the Facebook page of those businesses (that also irritated me), but I'm started wondering about this question.


Strange Google Analytics result when new site launched

I have a web site which is mainly contains a few pages, and now we revamp-ed a new site which contains several hundred pages. We have Strange Google Analytics result, as follow:               Before:     Traffic sources (all traffic): 674     Content (all pages, unique PV): 674          After:      Traffic sources (all traffic): 291     Content (all pages, unique PV): 1235      As you can see, the unique PV has increased as expected (as we have more pages now and the site is better), but why the traffic sources is lower and has a large gap? Any idea?


What is the ranking impact of scripts added by some free hosting websites?

I have noticed that some free hosting websites add scripts at the end of uploaded pages. For example:               Free hostingWeb host freeFree websites hosting           Does Google penalize pages having these added scripts when ranking pages? Is there any ranking penalty for using free hosting websites in general (I mean other than possible server speed issues)?


Is there a 'Subscription Cart' software available?

I have a website, whereby members pay an annual feel. Initially the members were a few now it has fun into hundreds. Now I have to check existing members manually to see if their subscription is going to expire. Is there a online service similar to a shopping card in e-commerce where I just give this software the details of members and this software reminds members that their subscription is going to expire, and will send notifications until their payments are settled?


Will switching Google Analytics account hurt SEO?

I'm in a situation where my company does not have access to its analytics account nor the account recovery email address. We are concerned about the impact changing accounts will have since this has been in place for years. At the same time, we need access to the data.


Is it fine to put different category of stuff in a single domain name?

I own a website which is regarding startups and finance. I am looking forward to work on Wordpress programming in which I would be selling wordpress themes. I thought of buying a domain name for Wordpress website but it takes quite lot of time to setup a website and then do its SEO. Is it fine(in terms of SEO and professionalism) to put the Wordpress category inside my old domain like, Domain:               www.startupsandfinance.com      Wordpress domain,               www.wp.startupsandfinance.com


Some clients cannot access their websites or mail, but I can. Not sure whats wrong

I have about 5 clients whose sites are hosted on our VPS who cannot access their sites from their office computers. DNS is fine and there doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the host - no downtime and bandwidth limits and size is ok. Webmaster Tools also indicates nothing is wrong. I can access the site from several locations (office, home, friends place) but the clients cannot. I am at a loss as to what could be causing this. Could this be an issue with their ISP?


Sending a small number of targeted emails, is it spamming?

I have a directory website and I want to send focused emails, a small amount, less than 50 a month, to some of the businesses on my directory that get many visitors. The intention is to let them know many people are viewing their page and encourage them to update it and post information on it. How can I send this small number of emails without being targeted as spam? Also, should I send it from an email with the website's domain or will it better to send from a personal email? That way at least if email is tagged as spam sometimes it won't hurt the website's reputation, is this true?


Can I have stand alone webpages indexed by Google?

I am doing some market research, and aim to create several landing pages aimed at long tail searches. Do these landing pages need to be in the navigation, or have an incoming link from somewhere else on the website, in order to be included in Google's index? I don't want to include them in the navigation, because some of the landing pages will be addressing similar search terms, and they will look silly being listed next to each other if they are so similar. Likewise, I don't want to necessarily use a Sitemap page, which links to the landing pages. I don't want a website visitor know I use a variety of landing pages to entice traffic. So, is it possible for isolated, stand alone webpages to be included in the Google index?


How many files can I stored in a linux folder?(Amazon EC2)

On Linux systems (Amazon EC2), what is the maximum number of files that can be stored in one directory without slowing down performance? (I know too many files in one directory on Windows systems will cause the system to operate slowly.)


Using SSL Certification in Multiple Locations

I have some issues with respect to using SSL Certificates. I have a website hosted in UK and I also have an organisation in South Africa hosting my company application online for web access. The issue now comes as I want to implement SSL for both servers as it requires login from different places and different people. Is it possible to purchase just ONE SSL certificate foe the company in the company name (www.companyname.com) and use it for both purposes? Thanks


How do I prevent a website being misclassified by Websense?

I received the following email from a user of one of our websites: > This morning I tried to log into `example.com` and I was blocked by Websense > at work because it is considered a "social networking" site or something. I > assume the websense filter is maintained by a central location, so I'm > hoping that by letting you guys know you can get it unblocked. per Wikipedia, Websense is web filtering or Internet content-control software. This means one (or more) of our sites is being miscategorized by Websense as "social networking" and thus disallowed for access at any workplace that uses Websense to control what websites their users can and cannot access during work hours. (I know, they are monsters!)   1. How do we dispute this Websense classification error, as our websites should generally be considered "information technology" and never "social networking"?   2. How do we know what category Websense has put our sites in, so we can pro-actively make sure they're not wrong?


What is the best implementation of the Facebook like-button you've seen?

I'm looking into implementing the Facebook like-button on my site. Therefore i'm looking for some good examples of the use of the like-button. I'm looking at the placement of the like-button and the use of the Open Graph meta-properties. Please explain why you like a particular implementation


Two different domain for specific languages pointing to one site

I developing a client's blog and he needs it to be bilingual (english and spanish). Now what he wants is that users can get to the content based on the domain e.g. John enters `www.domain.com` and he gets the english version and Juan enters `www.elsenordominio.com` to get the spanish version. All content will be validated by PHP so the users and search engines only reads the domain related language. What do I need to use header re-direct or 301? Is it bad for SEO? Will Google will penalize me? I hope you guys can help me and forgive me if my english is not good.


Is mixing slugs with numbers & names in WordPress a bad SEO technique?

While trying to get friendly URLs in WordPress, I discovered this WordPress forums post, which states: > WordPress has a monumental issue forbidding you to use the same category > slug more than once. It disallows you from having a category tree like this: > > Cars:   >  - Honda (`mysite.com/cars/honda`)   >  - Toyota (`mysite.com/cars/toyota`) > > Trucks:   >  - Honda (`mysite.com/trucks/honda`)   >  - Toyota (`mysite.com/trucks/toyota`) So the question is, how bad is this from an SEO point-of-view to use something like:               mysite.com/cars/1-honda/4-red         mysite.com/trucks/2-honda/5-red         mysite.com/motors/3-honda/6-red      where 1,2,3,4,5,6 are the category ID's. Would you recommend using this instead:               mysite.com/cars/1-honda/1-red      or this:               mysite.com/cars/car-honda/color-red


I am interesting in Google AdSense bot's algorithm and behavior with web site. I did not work with AdSense and I do not have account. So I need your help to understand: 1) Google's bot from time to time downloads all pages from web site. Am I right? 2) Google's bot does not understand dynamic content (loaded by Ajax). So I must generate static content and return it within HTML page and this pages must show identical content for all users and for Google bot? 3) Because of (1) and (2) I cannot use only root path `http://example.com` with some "main" widget. I must generate unique pages for example `http://example.com/thread?id=101`? 4) Gbot downloads pages (1) for grabbing (indexing) keywords from them and then store (on it's servers) these information for example by key/value (where key is page path, value is tag cloud). Am i right? 5) When web site has been opened in browser by user. Integrated HTML AdSense's code loads some JavaScript. As I understand by "Googling" this JavaScript do not index page, but makes call (with some parameter key==page_path) to Google's server and gets appropriate ad links. Then shows this ad links in it's frame. Is it right behavior? Maybe JavaScript makes some local indexing of page's content? 6) How Google's bot and AdSense's JavaScript work with cookies? As I understand AdSense can use cookies for show appropriate ad links. If it is right, please give me some use cases;) I know that "true" algorithm is known only by engineers from Google. But some of you had experience with AdSense and AdSense HTML/JavaScript. Please correct my vision of it;) Thank you very much for any advice!!! P.S. This question is very important for me. It is not some question for fun! So Please do not close it;)


We've had our content copied under a different URL - why and what do we do?

We have a problem. We've noticed a large amount of traffic showing up on our Google Analytics. Upon further investigation we have found that we've had our content copied under a different URL. Our site: http://www.targetis.co.uk The coppied site: http://www.target-is.com (isn't showing up with Chrome for us) We don't own this domain. Their content is hosted with them (not via proxy). The large part of the traffic is coming from video hosting site. What do we do?


CSS2 way of accomplishing what CSS3 border-image does?

What is the best way these days to make a visually interesting border around a div using images? CSS3's border-image would perfect, but it's CSS3. I don't want to rely on that yet. Is there a CSS2-compatible way to accomplish the same thing? My audience is mostly with-it, tech-savvy, not needing hacks for decrepit old browsers, but aren't necessarily all up on the cutting edge like CSS3 either. As an alternative to CSS for this, I tried some experiments with 3x3 tables using the images as cell background or cell content. The main content would go in the middle cell. I couldn't get the side images to stretch or repeat properly when the content varied.


Why use adzerk?

SO used adzerk to serve adverts. I'm a bit confused by it though, what's it do and what's the point of it? Why can't SO serve their own adverts?


Is it really necessary to approve each website to place my AdSense code on it?

As I understand AdSense's policy, I'm obliged to approve each website I'd like to use AdSense on. But in one Russian Webmasters forum, I heard that I can do it just once for one of my websites and the ad's code can then be the same for all of my other websites. Is that accurate?


Why popular sites don't use subdomains or subfolders for multi-language translations?

I read many discussions about the epic question: "subdomains vs folders for multi-language sites". However, I'm really curious to know why the big guys (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, etc.) do not use any of the two options. Could someone explain this?


How can you find using apache logs who logged in your server?

I have a application that running on apache web server, is there any way under apache logs i can identify name / ip address of user who logged into the system. And also the date / time of who last opened or accessed the logs?


Surviving an system audit, what are categories of regulation and/or compliance?

For example:   * Storage regulation credit credits, patient information   * Documenting compliance: CAN-SPAM


unusual autoindex-like commands

In looking at my logs, I get many GET requests aimed at a directory with what appear to be auto-index parameters. Stuff like ?C=M or ?O=A. I understand those. But I also get many requests with ?N=D, ?M=A, ?N=A, ?C=S, ?D=A. I don't have a clue what those mean. Is there some complete list of these commands that describes what they do? On my system, they just throw the requester to my index.html file. What are these requesters trying to do? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html just gives a few of them.


Hign traffic but low alexa rank

Hy guys, I have an website for more than one year. (it's a blog with .com domain) I track my visitors using google analytics and I mention that I have an average of 7000 unique visitors/day. I this whole year since my blog is online I had over 2.000.000 unique visitors. BUT wit all this, my alexa.com rank is 25.000.000. How is it possible? (I menion that some of my visitors came from PTC websites or traffic exchanges)


Getting ASP on Google App Engine

How do you get ASP to work on Google App Engine? I have tried to put ASP code on a webpage but it just showed like it was normal text.


Is traffic coming from URL shorteners treated as direct?

Traffic coming form shortened URLs like `bit.ly`, do they show up in Google Analytics as direct or do they keep their real referrer? Ex.: if someone types in a `bit.ly` link it counts as direct, but if someone clicks a `bit.ly` link from Twitter, it counts as referral traffic from Twitter?


Best way to build links and target my keywords

Lest say I want to target "used cars" (i know, i know, tough keyword, etc... but this is for the sake of an example) Using google keywords webmaster tools, I have a list of keywords: They are exact phrases and the number is total searches. [used cars for sale] 201000   [used cars ni] 110000   [used car] 74000   [used car prices] 60500   [used cars for sale by owner] 49500   [used car values] 49500   [used car sales] 27100   [buy used cars] 27100   [used car parts] 27100   [cheap used cars] 22200   [used cars uk] 22200   [used cars for sale uk] 22200   [best used cars] 18100   [japanese used cars] 18100   [used car search] 14800   [used car dealers] 14800   [parkers guide to used cars] 14800   [used car dealerships] 14800   [parkers used car prices] 12100   [used cars usa] 12100   [used cars ireland] 12100   [used car value] 12100   [kbb used cars] 9900   [used car for sale] 9900 If you were me, what would you do?   1. Build trades with all the anchors, and after some time wait for the website to rank for some of them? This is in conjunction to a post I read about a seochat member talking about searching patterns and that is best to target a wide variety of anchors... eventually you will start ranking for lots of keyword combinations. This way the site also obtains a natural linking profile, especially combining with url only anchors, click here, etc.   2. This is what I am inclined to do: Get the easiest keyword, least competitive. I haven-t done any competition study but lets assume for the sake of the example that the least competitive term is the one with the least number of searches, used car for sale. Build links only with this keyword but add some buffer words for keyword diversity like: UK used car for sale, best used car for sale, buy used car for sale - many of the buffer words being extracted from other searches above. Wait until I reach good position in serps and then move to another search term and so on. Which method do you think is best? More importantly how would you do it?


How to know if a domain is blacklisted by Google?

I found an available domain name which I want to buy, and I realize that it was previously owned. I searched for it like `site:domain.com` in Google, and I only found one link, which is the homepage. Of course it's closed now, I looked at the cached copy of it, and it was an empty white page. I also looked at Wayback Machine, which shows some copies from 2009 to August 2013, it says that it was used by a Spanish web design company. I wonder if they have done something spammy and get dropped from Google's index. So,   1. How do I find out if there is really a "blockage" on that domain?   2. If there is, is there something I can do to get it indexed back?


How to use HTTP Handler to make a client2client communication?

I'm new to Web programming! I try to make an app (something like Client to Client communication with C# Handlers and jQuery). I.E.: When 1Client make a click on his clientSide(browser), there paints one point, and on the same time the 2Client sees what 1Client did. And, in turn, where 2Client make a click on his browser, there paints one point, and the 1Client also sees what 2Client did. I could done already the configuration of IIS, I made an simple show Hello World and it run OK. And, further, what should i done.... Can you advice me, please, with some exemples, or tutorials, how to do this job. Sorry for my questions which seems to be not studied.


what is a no-text[0-9] requests?

I have a bunch of requests coming through on my site which looks like the one below: `example.com/page/no-text-1154169030774935240` Is this hacking attempts or search engines? EDIT: my question is regarding the request. The string at the end is used for an identifier which will load the appropriate page. Someone or something is passing the no-text-[0-9] string. I would like to know if it hacking attempts or search engines trying to index the site? Thanks


Does domain suffix affect SEO?

my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it `example-it`. If I then purchase the domain `www.example.it`, thus incorporating the company name into the domain would this affect how it is ranked in Google? And what version of Google this is displayed in? So for example would a search engine "assume" that this is an Italian domain and give it less precedence when searched for from `.co.uk` or`.com` search engines? Or is SEO driven solely on content? Any help would be much appreciated and if you need more info please let me know.


Transferring a Domain Safely

I want to transfer a domain that I am buying off somebody but I want to make sure i'm not getting scammed. Is there some kind of 3rd-party website that can help me with this kind of transfer so that I can safely buy the domain and move it over to me?


How to fix unknown broken link error in WordPress?

I've been working on a client website and found that there are broken links. I have fixed most of the links. Most of the broken links are generated from comments. So I fixed them. But still when I looked at Google Webmaster's crawl errors report, I found that there are some unknown links that are broken. Below is the sample link.               http://www.example.com/page/28/?fp=Twi%2F%2BHPwpi0h%2BBLrRBkxr3g%2BDZqT3dMQEyZoMB9Vyr8a32tVIcV8TXacqTSIan7Hptmo3Cu2yK%2BaCpwqw3FyfQ%3D%3D&prvtof=%2BqlsYAG0dA4qBx1hwWeIQmT3nye0uCkq%2BMLt2Xqr054%3D&poru=yUrkHSWnV4mif2swfPf6mrVD0%2FYKFgqtO2zieP4S9nRA3akMh0suIh%2FGpO2zI%2Fqx      There is another broken link like `http://www.example.com/page/37`. Google Webmaster Tools says that homepage is linked to the above link but that's not true. Not even a single link is linked to that pagination URL. I'm unable to find this link, and I even checked this with _Broken Link Checker_ WordPress plugin but unable to find any solution. Please tell me why this is being produced and how to fix it? Also please tell me how much time it takes to update Google Webmaster's crawl errors report?


How to overcome Google penalties for blogger

Suddenly my blog stop appearing in Google search & there is a huge dip in traffic, i went to webmaster tool & applied for re consideration. i don't no the exact reason why it happened like that, i forgot to add Disclaimer would it cause problem? How to identify what makes google to remove my blog from search index? Does google reconsider my blog? are there any alternatives for it?


Platform that suits best to build a website similar to freelancer.com?

I want to build something similar with limited functionality. Just a basic version. Is there a platform that I can use like Wordpress for rapid development?


Easy way to do roll up reporting in Google Analytics?

Is there an easy way to do roll up reporting in Google Analytics when you have multiple domains and each has at least 2 subdomains?


What is the best practice to have a number in the clean URL or not?

I'm confusing to choose my clean URL format for better SEO. Here are my two options:   1. example.com/apple    2. example.com/123/apple The first format is very clean. It would be much more familiar and easier to read for search engine users. But I need to query the content from db using slug - "apple" in this case. The second format uses a numeric ID of the content from db - "123" for the title "apple". It would be less familiar to users. But I can query the content from db using ID. This will make more efficient from the speed perspective. The StackExchange questions use the second format like > stackexchange.com/questions/123/question-title-slug-here But it has the very good SEO. I notice Google crawls questions fastly and they are listed in the first SERP in a very few hours. Both SEO and speed is important for my site. Please suggest me what is the best option.


Multiple index pages on website for multiple locations, SEO no-no?

We have a ecommerce website that can deliver products all over the country. We have seen at least one of our other competitors create an index page for every city in the country. So the pages essentially have the same content, but contain a different city name in various key parts of the page. They do not have multiple locations/stores or anything. They have managed to get a lot of these pages listed in Google so that when a user searches for the product in a particular location, they pop up at the top. My question is, would it hurt the website rankings in terms of SEO if we were to do the same? We can deliver to all over the country. I haven't really found out definitively if this is a no-no in terms of SEO?


Why does jkmwpkl.gov.my only look like it should on Chrome for Windows?

1. Go to jkmwpkl.gov.my on Chrome for Ubuntu 13.10   2. Note that the page does not display correctly   3. Go to jkmwpkl.gov.my on Chrome for Windows 7   4. Note that it DOES display correctly. So why the discrepancy? This is what it looks like on 13.10 ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/h6Hqy.jpg) This is what it should look like ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MUlMf.jpg)


.htaccess URL rewriting friendly URL with 2 parameters, the second parameter is optional

I'm kind of stuck at this part and was hoping that I'd get some assistance. I'm building a highscores page in PHP, that's going great, it works. However, I dislike the idea of `index.php?skill=name` and therefore wanted a bit of SEO in this. I have successfully replaced the url with a more friendly version:   `highscores/skill/name` And this is where the problem starts, I have added pagination to the highscores and the page is read from the HTTP_GET page variable (`$_GET['page']`). I dislike the idea of `highscores/skill/name&page=2` and was hoping if you guys could assist me to make the url like the following: Page 1, so accessing the file without declaring the page number:                 DOMAIN.TLD/highscores/skill/name      Page > 1 so now the page variable is needed:               DOMAIN.TLD/highscores/skill/name/2      As you can tell the "2" will define page 2 and load the correct data for page 2. However, I'm having much trouble in my .htaccess file to configure it this way.               RewriteRule ^highscores\/skill\/(.*?)(\/(.*?)*)$ highscores/skills.php?skill=$1&page=$2 [L] # Skills page      That is my latest attempt in order to get it to work, unfortunately it does not work, it makes the page look horrible (CSS doesn't work) and it doesn't go to the page specified on the URL. * * * **PART 2** - Thanks to w3d for solving my first issue, however, I now face a second issue, which I was hoping the first issue would fix for me. My index page in the highscores directory shows the overall scores, `domain.tld/highscores/`. However, I don't like the idea of `domain.tld/highscores/?page=2` Could you tell me how to make it like: `domain.tld/highscores/2`   the `2` being the page number of course. Here's what I've tried:               RewriteRule ^highscores/([^/]+)?$ ./highscores/index.php?page=$1 [L]


I now own both, .net and .com extensions for a business page. Should I change the default?

**Back in 2007 I purchased a`.net` domain for a certain company because the `.com` was taken.** The website grew, and I consider it to have a good amount of visits, keeping in mind its a business page, and not eCommerce. It also attracts a lot of customers, and the owners are very happy with it. A couple of years ago, I was also able to purchase the `.com` domain, and I never really did anything with it but forward to the `.net` domain. Now, `.com` domains were supposed to be used for commercial sites, but are also the most used in the world for any other type of site, while `.net` were supposed to be for networks. We know a lot of people, including myself don't always follow this. Now, **in my opinion, I always thought of websites ending in`.com` as more trustworthy**. I'm not sure why, if because they were always more widely used, or if because, as in my case, `.net` were usually the sites who could not get the `.com` extension.               Part 1      **My questions are:** **A** - Do people share this vision of `.com` being more trustworthy? **B** - Should I think about moving to the different domain name? **C** - And if so, what proper steps should I take to make sure I don't lose any rankings?


Average of 26 Mbit/s how many GBs/month?

I need to know how many data my server transfer over a month. I know from my control panel only my average Mbit/s daily that is: **26Mb/s**. Doing some calc: 26Mbit/s = 3.25 Mbyte/s   * Daily usage: 86400 (seconds) * 3.25 (Mbyte/s) = 280'800 Megabyte    * Month usage: 30*280800 = 8'424'000 Megabyte So each month my server transfer `8000 GB` (8 TB). Is it correct?


What news aggregator with approval system can I use?

We have an automated news feed that publishes news articles on our website when we have been mentioned in the media, but before the articles are published we would like to approve (or reject) them. The dirtiest way to do it is to use a Google News RSS feed, and then when an article is published we post a link in our "news" section of the site, but this is too manual. What we would like to do - and I think Yahoo pipes is the technology we need to use - is to have the ability to 'approve' or 'reject' a news article and then the approved articles will be fed through to the widget that will be published on our website. Will yahoo pipes let us do this? or am I stretching the functionality out a bit?


Facebook - "openID" danger?

I am scared that someone can get into anybodys account on my game, if user does not have Facebook. Stealer makes facebook with same email that user in my game, and then click "Login with facebook" -> redirects him to permission page -> back to my page - it detects that facebook email is same as victim's and -> stealer is logged into victims account. How could I prevent this? Just t allow LOGGED in users to associate their account with facebook's ?


Authorize.net CIM or using the module's storage

this site is intended to allow users to sign up and pay for a service, they will be able to pay using Paypal and Authorize.net since I am using two different payment gateways, it makes me wonder where I want to keep the user information. Authorize.net offers CIM, but some users will pay with paypal therefore Authorize.net won't have all user's information Would the best solution then be to not use CIM and store everything within my member database module? for the record I am using OSE for Joomla for my subscriber service


WordPress feeds not indexing in webmaster tools

I don't have much experience about webmaster tools, i just know the basic of the webmaster, and i am not from SEO background, but i just want to know that:   1. Why my blog's RSS Feeds not indexing from webmaster tools?   2. i want to know about Crawl Stat is this stat is good or bad?   3. To submit the RSS into the webmaster is good for indexing the pages or not?? i also submitted the sitemap. the link of the website is Webtech Eleven ![Sitemap](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AJKsP.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4BJvm.png)


Google is re-indexing pages after redirecting URLs from HTTP to HTTPS incorrectly

I upgraded my site so that all pages have gone from using HTTP to HTTPS. I didn't consider that Google treats HTTPS pages differently than HTTP. I recreated my sitemap to so that all links now reflect the new HTTPS URLs and let it be for a few days. (Whoops!) Google is now re-indexing all the HTTPS pages. I have about 19k pages on the site, and Google has already indexed about 8k of the new HTTPS pages. The problem is that Google sees all of these as brand new pages when many of them have a long HTTP history. Of course most of you will recognize the problem, I didn't set up a `301` from the old HTTP to the new HTTPS URLs. Is it too late to do this? Should I switch my sitemap back to HTTP URLs and then `301` redirect to the new HTTPS URls? Or should I leave the sitemap as is, and setup `301` redirects anyway... I'm not even sure if Google is trying to reach the HTTP site anymore. Currently the site is doing `303` redirects (from HTTP to HTTPS), although I haven't figured out why yet.


Webpage for both tablet and PC

Can we develop webpages that will work on both tablet, say Android, and Desktops/PCs (here I'm looking at non flash based web pages). Since I was looking at Sencha, do we need to use both Sencha Architect and Sencha Touch for the above development requirement? Any other better alternatives?


Is 2.5% (12.5k page views per day) good as compared to my total index pages which is 5,00,000 pages? If not, how much % should be a good one?


Making a Site More "Up-to-Date" - Ideas?

We have a website and want it to be more up-to-date. So far, we've made the site compatible with mobile devices and created a FaceBook page for it. What are some other things we can do for our site to make it more up-to-date?


SEO Keyword Research Help

I'm new at SEO and keyword research. I am using Market Samurai as my research tool, and I was wondering if I could ask for your help to identify the best key word to target for my niche. I do plan on incorporating all of them into my site, but I wanted to start with one. If you could give me your input on these keywords, I would appreciate it. This is all new to me :) I'm too new to post pictures, but here are my keywords (Searches, SEO Traffic, and SEO Value / Day):               Searches | SEO Traffic  |  PBR  | SEO Value | Average PR/Backlinks of Current Top 10             1: 730   | 307          |  20%   | 2311.33   | 1.9 / 7k-60k     2: 325   | 137          |  24%   | 822.94    | 2.3 / 7k-60k     3: 398   | 167          |  82%   | 589.79    | 1.6 / 7k-60k      I'm wondering if the PBR (Phrase-to-broad) value of #1 is too low. It seems like the best value because the SEOV is crazy high. That is like $70k a month. #3 has the highest PBR, but also the lowest SEOV. #2 doesn't seem worth it because of the PR competetion. Might be a little too hard to get into the top page of Google. I'm wondering which keywords to target, and if I should be looking at any other metric to see if this is a profitable niche to jump into. Thanks.


Google Adwords campaign is not receiving any traffic at all, despite raising my bid

I have two sets of ads, one for search and one for display network only. The search ads have had 2 impressions, no clicks, the daily budget is £15 and there are 94 keywords targeted, 75 are those recommended by Google's Opportunities. The display network ads were getting clicks, 121 in total from 47,000 impressions. The daily spend was £7. No there are no impressions and no clicks, so I increased the daily budget to £25, still no new impressions. Both are active and approved. I have no idea what has happened. Why as the former never had any impressions and why the latter has simply stopped working over night. Bids are set to 'Focus on clicks, automatic bidding, no CPC bid limit'. But looking it says "auto £3.96". They are high competition. The keyword planner suggests bids of 70p - which is much lower than I think its set to?


URL Rewrite with spaces or with -?

Which URL is more SEO? `mydomain.com/category-name/article-name.html` OR `mydomain.com/category name/article name.html` I have read some articles about URL Rewriting but there I can't find any conclusion.


Unlimited Inodes?

I am currently trying to find a host for my website. The website allows people to host projects in a somewhat similarish way to this. I would rather not reveal more about what it is until I release it. The problem is, that with users uploading files for their `mods/projects/etc` I would quickly reach any inode limit, espically with my current folder structure. `http://www.example.com/files/HOrrZCINYUoTxPVzaRrRFYUQRDxPPRun/wiD4Pj38Tkq/SomeFileUploadedWithTheProperNameStillHere.jar`. As you can see from that, it is a quite long URL. The first set of jumble is the project id (every project has one), it stays the same for all files of the same project. The second set of jumble is the file id, randomly generated for each file. There is a file id so that files of the same name can be uploaded to each project (Example would if someone uploads 2 _MyProject.jar_ files, one for version 1 and another for version 2). So far I cannot find any hosts that allow for unlimited inodes, every host has a 25,000-500,000 limit (hence too small). Even if that was big enough, I would prefer not to have the imminent loom of inode limit bypassing over my head all the time (It would drive me insane). I would like either a link to a host with unlimited MySQL, disk space, and inodes. Or another way to do this. I was thinking about storing the files in a MySQL database, however it seems like most hosts limit those too (Including the database's files in the inode count).


Creating bilingual site, positioning new language version

I have a website that right now is only in Polish. I would like to make an English version that would work on the different domain, so that I can start positioning it for English keywords. I think I will find my way around translating it to English using library gettext or similar method - to make it easier for me to manage those two versions I would like to not duplicate every file, only change the language on setting a certain variable. I am not sure how to force the page to display in English once accessed from English domain. Is it possible to achieve it with hatccess? I also heard of a method that would point the English domain to other index.php that would set the language variable for English, would that be a correct approach?


How to block all hacking?

The title explains most of my question. The OS is linux (Lubuntu). The servers are Apache2 (PHP5), MySQL 5.6 and FTP (Samba).


How do I handle duplicated content on related domains?

I am in charge of two unique domains - one on which my client sells activity packages, and the other where he sells resort information. One place shows the user what he can do and the other shows where he can stay. He wants both sites to have common inter related content. My questions are:   1. If I create similar content pages with the same url (the domain name will be different of course), will I be penalised?    2. Should I have canonical urls for each? How will that help?


Getting a second domain to help direct traffic to my main domain?

The business I work has a fairly long, 4 word name. The domain they've been using is the first letter of the first three words, and then the last word spelled out. For now we'll refer to it as "The Ant Farm Society" or "TAFSociety.com". I've been SEO'ing their site and doing a good job at it, and I'll probably feel the affects of what I've done in a few weeks. However as of now, they don't show up on the first page of google for "The Ant Farm Society". I recently found out that The-Ant-Farm-Society.com is available. Would it be beneficial or detrimental for me to use that domain? My thoughts were to use a nice design, put around 10 related articles on there, and have it ultimately link to their main site, "TAFSociety.com". Is it wise to do this? Or should I just focus on bringing up their abbreviated domain name? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Changes to site and homepage will not fetch as google and not indexed either

please help. redesigned website and ever since then, homepage will not index NOR will it fetch as google. I keep getting failed on fetching. any ideas? thanks! My site


Does sitemap.xml have to be in the root directory?

This may be a simple and absurd question, but is it completely necessary for sitemap.xml file to be in the root directory of the wordpress install directory of the site, or is it ok to create a subdirectory and place it there? i.e. /sitemap/sitemap.xml I've created a dynamically generated site map xml file, but would like to auto-generate it on the fly when changes are made, and need to be able to write to this file. I would like to keep the main wordpress folder permissions as they are and only have this subdirectory writable. Would love to hear any thoughts on the matter! Or alternate solutions... Merci!


Why isn't Twitter widget working?

I have Twitter's own widget set to load on a website, which works just fine. However, on my WP-powered blog the script is included but not rendered. I call it inside an empty `div` like this: > >     <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/twtr-widget.html' ?> >   But it appears in the page source as HTML (I'm putting '...' to save room): > >     <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script> >     <script> >     new TWTR.Widget({... >     ...</script> >   > > In other words, the script is not being executed. Why is this?


How Can I Centralize Content Usage and Approval in a WordPress Multi-Site installation

I am working with a non-profit client that runs several charities under one umbrella. A good metaphor would be to think of the United Way (but it's not the United Way). Can a WordPress multi-site installation do the following:   1. Share content between sites. E.g., if site A has a section called "Advocacy", can that same content also be shown in site B? This would need to include text, photos, etc.   2. How centralized can administration be made? For example, can draft posts from all websites be approved in one location? I'm sure there are other things I need to ask, but I'm still in the investigation phase.


Unable to make the facebook "like" button to work on this site, any ideas?

This is the site >> http://www.elsolitariomc.com I'm using a plugin and also trying to use the usual facebook like button that it's explained here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ Anyhow, the like button simply doesn't work or appears to have a # url. I looked in StackExchange for any similar question, but all the problems seems to be different, any idea or link to an answer will be highly appreciated.


What hosting solutions help with traffic spikes?

A web application is hypothetically featured on Digg or Reddit, and the server load immediately spikes up by a couple of orders of magnitude. What kind of hosting solution will allow the website to survive through a large flux like this? (and not cost a fortune) Hosting through AWS seems to be in fashion these days. However, many complain about the cost. Will a VPS hosting solution also be able to scale-up in a timely fashion, while costing less? Alternatives? Thanks.


Does e-commerce platform matter for branding

The place I work is now looking into developing a new e-commerce site on the Magento platform. Magento will fill all of our needs. I was just wondering if it is in anyway unprofessional doing it this way (Impression is something we are really worried about), will people who visit the site look at our business different knowing we used Magento or any other e-commerce platform. There are ways to find out. I use Chrome Sniffer to find out what platforms are used to develop each site, there are other tools available for different browsers. Bottom-line: Will an e-commerce platform affect the trust in my brand?


Website image/link/url checker

Is there any sufficient software or tools to use to check website on below aspects   1. Images sizes     * Sometimes some images were uploaded very big without knowing, this causes bandwidth and speed    2. Broken links     * Bad for user experiences   3. Broken url     * Bad for user as well I know a software called "Link Validate" or something. Anything else?


SEO - Changing file extension

I am going to change the file extension from ".htm" to ".php", is there any disadvantage with this action?


How can I get plusone to display my images?

I just put an google plusone button on my site. If I `+1` the page and then go to my google+ account and look at my `+1`'s it shows up, but it has no picture. So my question, are there any tips to get `+1` do display the information I want it to display, especially my logo?


Google instant previews and adsense

I have a site with a normal image header, a menu, then below that an adsense leaderboard, and then the content below that. The problem is that google instant previews, capture the adsense text and hightlights it (puts it in a box) at google instant previews of my pages. I really don't like the ad text be emphasized as the most important of my previews. Maybe google preview bot is doing that because adsense text is on the top. How I could either make instant preview ignore adsense text, or somehow reposition the adsense div with css, so that even if it's loaded after the content to be able to be positioned on the top of it? I use 960 grid


Best to load external resources from third parties or from your own server?

What is the best way to load external resources in order to speed up performance for your users? Should one load for example jQuery from Google CDN through:   * https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.js Or is it better download the file, store and serve it on our own server?


Install software in the cloud

Is there a way to have a windows xp running in the cloud and install software on it that more people in the organization can use? This in order to reduce the money spent on licenses for more developers


What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 3

this is a follow up question to this one What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 2 If I have my static files on Amazon cloudfront and have the file's URLs mentioned in my code. How will I be able to do versioning of my CSS files, so that the browser retrieves the latest version of the file when I update it on cloudfront. Couple of things **I do not want to** do when I am doing this are   * change the filename in cloudfront and change the urls everywhere in the code   * and then restarting the application server thanks


Can anyone list some real examples of 'HTML5' being used in the wild?

I am using HTML5 in the same way everyone seems to be using it these days, meaning: HTML5 tags, Canvas / 3D / javascript and CSS3. I am struggling to find examples of sites that are using these technologies practically and that are not just a demo of something cool someone has managed to do using Canvas or CSS3 transforms or shapes. I am looking for sites that have a nice visual look but also take advantage of things like animation, scrolling and offset à la Silverback or the Canvas to create an interactive and I guess 'Flash-looking' site. These are some examples that I have found: **Scrolling**   * http://nikebetterworld.com/index   * http://benthebodyguard.com/ **Animation**   * http://www.elladesign.com/contact.html **Other**   * http://www.pirateslovedaisies.com/ I am using HTML5 loosely and I hate to be using it. I would be happy if you listed a really visually appealing Javascript-based site but it didn't have the HTML5 doctype.


Working out costs to implement WCAG 2.0 (AA) site

I've run our client's site through a WCAG 2.0 validator which has returned 415 tasks that need to be worked through in order to get it WCAG 2.0 compliant. For the most part, I can get a rough estimation of how long a task will take but there are tasks I have never had to do before which I am not sure how to cost. I would like to know if someone has a rough guide on what to cost a client to convert their site to a compliant WCAG 2.0 (AA) site.


Jokes search engine / PHP based search engine on database

I'm looking for a script, functioning like the Google homepage that fetches data from a database rather than the internet. This is not intended to be a search engine, but a repository of jokes that can be pulled depending on the keywords typed. No sophisticated search techniques are required - keyword based is perfectly fine. If some mechanism of up/down-voting jokes can be incorporated, that would be fantastic, but I'm presuming that will be an entirely different game.


Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors due to Google decoding links that were urlencoded by Codeigniter

In our pages we have internal links that are _urlencoded_ because the URL may sometime contain special characters such as `()` or `!` So in our source code we have a link: `http://example.com/American_Dad%21-245<br>` In Google Webmaster Tools I have an error for this same link: `http://example.com/American_Dad!-245` So basically Google has decoded the link in my source code and was trying to access that decoded URL. However since this decoded URL has a special character `!`, my Codeigniter setup returns a `400` error status code. Is it possible to fix this issue without allowing special characters in Codeigniter setup, because I think those restrictions are important for the security of the site. Should I double _urlencode_ all my links as seems to be suggested by this post?


301 vs 302 redirect for ?url=URL

I have the following URL for affiliates:               http://www.mydomain.com/affiliates/partners/partnerName.do?url=http://www.mydomain.com/product/3      The value of url will change all the time. For this, I have used a 302 redirect. I chose to do this because `http://www.mydomain.com/affiliates/partners/partnerName.do` can be redirected to several pages (because the url parameter can equal anything) and not just one page. I believe this is the correct thing to do, but someone from our marketing department told me not to use 302 redirects and to use a 301 redirect, because several SEO articles say 302 redirects are bad. I just want to confirm that the 302 redirect is the proper redirect to use for this particular case.


Apache utf-8 characters in filename

I can't figure it why I can't open files (photos as a start) that contain utf-8 characters in their file name. For example, I have the following photo: `José-Antonio.jpg` , the browser outputs it as `Jos%C3%A9-Antonio.jpg` but trying to access it, will return an `404` error code. I tried and have these settings in my `/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf` but don't seem to fix it:               #AddDefaultCharset UTF-8     AddDefaultCharSet ISO-8859-1          IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable Charset=UTF-8      Any ideas what could go wrong? And btw, it seams the system supports utf-8 encoding...               [root@u16641744 01]# locale     LANG=en_US.UTF-8     LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_ALL=      `ls` result in a directory containing such files:               -rw-r--r-- 1 user group   6093 Dec 22 17:39 Adoración-de-los-Magos-Botticelli-110x90.jpg      But the curios thing is that the output of the following command, is wrong:               perl -Mcharnames=:full -CS -wle 'print "\N{EURO SIGN}"'       |-> outputs: â¬


Image Link with Nofollow tag. Good or Bad practice?

Which is the best practice, from an SEO point of view, if you have a list of products which have both image and text link? 1) one A tag with the image and product name inside? `<a href="product_link"><img src="..." /> <span>product name</span></a>` 2) an A tag for each html tag `<a href="product_link"><img src="..." /></a> <a href="product_link"><span>product name</span></a>` It's a good practice to put a rel="nofollow" for the image link like in the image bellow?![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LqoeD.png)


Top Level Domain (.com) and subdirectories for each country: Do they need their own content to rank in Google?

If I want to have a new site with a `.com` domain and have a `/uk/` and `/au/` folder for ranking in the Google results for each country, do I need to create a `/uk/blog/` and a `/au/blog/` to get content for the `/uk/` site and the `/au/` site? Or can I go with `mydomain.com/blog/` with `mydomain.com/uk/` and `mydomain.com/au/` for each country with the `mydomain.com/blog/` content counting towards the ranking and backlinks for both `/uk/` and `/au/`? I hope that makes sense.


How can I create a subdomain to a Facebook page running on CloudFlare

I'd like to add a subdomain to my website for an Android community Facebook page, using CloudFlare on my domain and subdomain. Please tell me how I might do that.


Selling Facebook Likes - are these quality Likes?

People/companies selling Facebook Likes guarantee 100-1000 likes for your Facebook page. Some say "real looking likes", "permanent likes", "verified", etc. I figured I'd try one of these guys out, and got 95 likes on a page. In my initial investigation of these likes, this is what I found:   * All had 100+ friends, many of which are linked (all seem to have the same "friends")    * All started around October with various quotes like "If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.", all posted on their timelines, with no new posts since February. These statuses seem to come from db's like that at cutefacebookstatus dot c()m (not providing them with any type of link-back). I there some application that's auto-generating these pages for these people? Do these types of "Likes" end up hurting a FB page's ranking/ability to help the web page it points to?


Using Google Analytics to track events that happen in an iframe

I'm trying to track how many visitors click on a button in our site. The problem is the button is located within an iframe coming from an external service. Here is the page in question: http://www.anoisewithin.org/support- us/individual-giving/#tabs-7 I would like to be able to measure how many visitors click the Search button in the iframe, but I am unable to append any Google Analytics tracking code to the button. Is there any other way I can track that particular click event?


My webpage works using HTTP, but not using www

I'm sorry to repeat this question as I saw it was previously asked. I would just like the answer in something that a complete idiot and newbie web developer (me) can understand. I actually hired a web developer to make my page for me and it only works when using HTTP and not when using `www`. They told me that everything was correct on their end and to contact the help desk at my domain server (GoDaddy). Is there something in GoDaddy that I can go check and fix myself to correct the problem?


Recurring billing / profiles management system

As a company, we have various recurring fees which our clients pay. These can include:   * hosting plans   * maintenance agreements   * SLAs   * ... I would like to know if anyone knows of a good, web-based recurring billing / payments management system which we could use to help us get more organised regarding this aspect of our business. Basically, we would need to:   * Create recurring profiles, e.g. hosting, emails / domain services @ 200eur / year.   * Be able to give free / extend the subscription period, for any reason.  Also, we don't have specific products which we would like to choose and charge. All these recurring fees are discussed with the clients, and are created on a _per-client_ basis. I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, however since I think most 'webmasters' require such a system to keep track of payment, I thought this would be the place to go for.


How to view custom Google Analytics dashboards month-by-month

By default, the custom Google analytics dashboard widget which shows data in a timeline, shows the data on a day-by-day timeline. I would like to see the timeline data in a month-by-month view within the dashboard. I've tried looking for the following solutions: (a) hacking the querystring to force a different timeline view (b) a browser extensions which does the same without much success. Any other ideas/suggestions/solutions?


I am looking for a tool, which can manage several Google + personal profiles (not pages!).

I need a tool, which can manage several google + personal profiles (not pages) on one dashboard! Has any of you created such a masterpiece and would like to sell it?


How do websites like trafficestimate.com and digsitesvalue estimate web traffic

I hope this is the right place to post this, sorry if it is not. I am just so curious as to how they work or where they get their data. trafficestimate.com basically estimates how much traffic a site gets. My initial thought was that they multiply an alexa value by some constant but I have no idea how accurate that would be. Does anyone have any idea how they do it? Thanks


SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain

I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to `en.mywebsite.com`, `es.mywebsite.com`, `fr.mywebsite.com` depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in `www.mywebsite.com` However, when I put links to my website in other websites, I do not do it directly to the subdomain: Instead of this:               http://fr.mywebsite.com/article/article123/      I do this:               http://www.mywebsite.com/article/article123/      So the user gets redirected to that article in his language, or english if the user's language is not avaiable:               http://en.mywebsite.com/article/article123/      My question is, how do this affect SEO? Will the subdomains benefit from the backlinks? or just the main domain? (which would be a problem as there's no real content indexed there).


does having a header image repeated on multiple pages effect seo?

I heard from someone that having a header banner image repeated on every single page makes google see it as redundant. Is this true?


Hiding page content from Google when it is duplicated across several sites

I would like to hide some content from Google. Because a client has multiple websites with the same content then he gets a warning about duplicate content on some of them (multiple countries, same products same description for the products). I tried loading the content of the page with Ajax after the page has loaded but Google still sees it (hence the warning about duplicate content). Is there a better way to do this with Ajax? Can I run somehow the AJAX that loads the result after the page has loaded in a way that is not executed by Google. I would like to avoid any Black Hat if possible (I fully understand that this can be considered black hat too). I have also tried converting the text to images, that works decently but the text is not crisp enough even with AA enabled. I understand the Iframe trick too, but I want to get to it only if AJAX is not possible. Did anybody try putting functionality in an external JS file, not allowing google bot from indexing it and putting a function that loads AJAX in there externally?


SEO/link-juice implications of 'www.' links versus links without 'www.'

I remember reading ages ago that it's a good idea to choose either `www.domain.com` or `domain.com` as your main URL and then set the other one as a 301 redirect to point to your domain? The reason provided was:   1. Some people may link to `www.domain.com`   2. Other links may point to `domain.com` In order to not lose 'SEO link juice', the individual recommended setting up a 301 redirect from one to the other. Has this changed? Is it true? I would have guessed that Google (and other search engines) would be smart enough to whack some code in their algorithm to understand that in most cases `www.domain.com` = `domain.com`?


How many keywords should be selected for SEO?

I am very new in this field and I wanted to do SEO for my blog .   1. How many keywords should I select?   2. After selecting the keywords,should I always focus on those keywords only?I mean whatever the post is I must add those keywords?or should it depend upon the posts?


Conditional RedirectMatch based on IP

How do I use this `RedirectMatch` with limiting by IP address? This is what I have right now, and it works as is:               RewriteRule ^dir.*$ http://www.mysite.org/otherdir/ [R=302,L]      I want this to work only if _not_ accessed from two different IP addresses. A visit from any other IP address should execute this code in my _.htaccess_. **Edit:**   Exact code as it appears in my _.htaccess_ file:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1 [OR]     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^xx\.xxx\.xxx\.x    #masked on purpose     RewriteRule ^dir.*$ http://www.mysite.org/otherdir/ [R=302,L]     </IfModule>      **Edit 2:** I am now using this in my .htaccess file `RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\\.0\\.0\\.1` `RewriteRule ^conference - [F]` This works on my local machine, but if I switch to my external IP address, it's completely ignored.


How to stop analytics tracking GET variables?

Google tracks every GET variable as a single page.               1 visit - example.com/register.php?ref=6     1 visit - example.com/register.php?ref=12     1 visit - example.com/register.php?ref=2      Is it possible to disable the tracking of GET variables?               3 visits - example.com/register.php


How to register a single character SLD

Most of the major registrars have a 3 character minimum for second-level domains. However, I know that it's possible to register them. (a.cc, o.co) You can ever register single unicode domain names (௫.net, ✈.com, ಠ.com) How is that possible? I know that IANA has most of the .coms restricted, but other TLDs are available and I'm sure more are to come.


How do you value keywords across SEO and SEM?

For example the cost of a keyword in Google PPC system does not equal it's value, just how much people are willing to pay for it. Really not sure if the question makes sense, so please feel free to ask questions. Thanks!


How would you establish user credibility for your web app?

One of the problems with general public facing apps is to deal with fake user accounts. Using an Open ID service doesn't solve this, as anyone can open multiple Google accounts and register as many different users with many different open ID accounts. Notice that this question is beyond authentication - I'm assuming that the user behind the fake user accounts takes the time to authenticate by email, and uses a legitimate username and password. In StackExchange apps this is done by giving a minimum of 15 rep before the user can do anything significant on the site. Not all webapps have this luxury, as some apps are built for short-lived user accounts, such as e-commerce apps or certain forums, which usually do not build a long term relationship with users. Is there a systematic way to establish user credibility?


Confirm that a dns zone is served by a nameserver

We currently have a domain which has custom nameservers. Our host has their own nameservers. I'd like to switch our domain to use our host's nameservers for a while. Our host tells me that their nameservers hold a replica of our dns zone, but I'd like to confirm this before I switch. Is there a command line tool I can use that I can use to answer the question _"does this nameserver know the dns zone of this domain?"_ Hope that makes sense! Thanks, Adam


Are Google affiliate ads automatically included if you use Google AdSense?

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