Adding Microdata to a website of company listings

Let's say you have a website that is akin to the YellowPages. It is a listing of lots of other companies. Should you place microdata about each company on each company listing page? Or should you just put Microdata about the "Yellow Pages"? For example:               http://www.lots-o-companies.com/supplier/joes-florists      Do I put all the Microdata on the page to be about Joe's Florists, or the parent website, Lots O' Companies? I'm not quite sure how Google wants this data? On a site level, or a page content level?


How do my A records have to look like - are these correct?

I'm using some fictional IP addresses here, but the problem is real. My default A Record:               * # this is for anysubdomain.example.com, I suppose     @ # and this is for example.com     www # this is for www.example.com      There are also these entries. What do they do in this context? My MX records are elsewhere.               mail     webmail     pop     smtp      Now I'd like to point to my own server. Let's say that my IP is `1.2.3.4` I would then write:               * 1.2.3.4     @ 1.2.3.4     www 1.2.3.4      Is that correct? I read something about `* IN A 1.2.3.4` - what's that notation? Assuming my application runs on `1.2.3.4:80`, everything should be fine, right? I am new to the A records concept and I'd like to ask before changing and deconstructing my system.


Joomla 2.5 - Password to backend lost

Can I recover the backend password for Joomla 2.5?


Can I put AdSense in a site that was refused before?

I have a blog in Arabic. I collect English blog posts, translate them and re- post them with a link to the source. I applied for an AdSense account and my site was refused. The question is, can I put AdSense code in this same site from a friend's account? If I did so, will AdSense close my friend's account?


Switching off IE8 Compatibility View

I have a site which works fine when accessed from a remote web server. It runs (on IE8, which is what my organisation uses) with:   * Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8   * Document mode: Internet Explorer 8 Standards However, when I open the same site from `localhost`, using the same browser, I get:   * Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View   * Document mode: Internet Explorer 7 Standards With the tag `<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />`, I can fix the document mode to IE8. However I can't lose the Compatibility View - and this is causing some aspects of my site to break (specifically, some AJAX functionality). Do you have any idea (a) why IE8 is rendering my site in Compatibility View from `localhost` when it renders normally on a remote server, and (b) how to prevent/circumvent this problem? Thank you.


Forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain

How can I forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain? I.e.: `api.website.com` -> `api.company.com` Where the first is just a CNAME pointer and the last is a real subdomain with a root. At `website.com` I have:               api CNAME api.company.com.      At `company.com` I have:               api.website.com CNAME api.company.com (also tried this with just API)     api.company.com A 1.2.3.4


Should the most important page for SEO be my homepage?

I have a website that over time has accumulated a few hundred links, mainly on the homepage. It markets an iPhone app and we didn't optimize it for SEO. Recently, we launched a more professional tool on the site for businesses, where SEO is critical. That other page is better optimized and starts to rank better but has a lot less external links than the homepage (less than 10 root domains point to that other page, even though it gets internal links from almost all pages on my site). Do you think I should move that page to my homepage to rank better?


How is github so fast?

When you browse repositories on github ( for example https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master/bin) it feels like it uses ajax and does not reload the whole page every time. However the url really changes (not just after the # ). I already found this article where they write about their backend: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast But is this really the whole trick? My pages never feel that fast and I am already using yslow to optimize it.


web designer question - How to create a dynamic paragraph or any text in an html file? I mean the < p>If I want to change this text portion< /p> I am a web designer who just know, html, css, adobe dreamweaver, photo shop and corel draw.


Google Analytics: Value ecommerce transaction value

I have problem with the ecommerce goals in google universal analytics. I would like to set up a URL goal to signal the completion of an e-commerce transaction. So the manual says that I have to leave the Goal Value field blank. But I can´t! It says that I have to put a number. So if a set this field to "No" it doesn´t takes any value from ecommerce tracking and if I try to set up this field to "Yes", I have to put a value and it doesn't take the value from ecommerce neither... Is it possible that this variable value option is not well implemented in Universal?? I'm stuck!


Magento checkout with Paypal

I've setup paypal on Configuration > Sales > Paypal a thousand times, but still not getting the Paypal option listed in the Payment methods on the Checkout process. And yes, I have filled out all the required info like the API credentials and such. Also, I'm not getting any errors from Magento at all. This is driving me crazy and it seems that no one (as far as I see) has gone throught this situation. Thanks in advance.


What is the online survey/feedback widget that looks like "[+]" (a crosshair) in the bottom right

I'm trying to setup a site rating survey so marketing in my company can gather feedback information about a site. I've seen before large companies using a tool which puts a small animated crosshair in the bottom right of the screen [+]. what on earth is this company called? multiple searches don't seem to bring it up!


Discrepancies between visits recorded in analytics and clicks reported in AdWords

According to analytics, there were only 730 visits on the page. According to AdWords, there were about 1200 clicks on the ad. How can I track what is going on? Shouldn't I have the same number of visits and clicks?


Any good reason to noindex /page/2/ in archives?

In the Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast, there is an option that could noindex the subpages of archives. From example, it would noindex the following:               http://mysite.com/page/2/     http://mysite.com/page/3/     http://mysite.com/page/4/      ...and so on. Is there a good and legitimate reason to do this, in terms of SEO? Would it benefit me in any way?


Would including some of the same words in every product URL be considered keyword stuffing?

I have about 130 products on my site, and I want the URL to look like this `example.com/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices`. Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the (ratings-reviews- prices) portion of the URL, and afraid it may look like keyword stuffing, though the page will contain info about all 3 of those things.


AWStats Temp File Write Permissions Issue

I'm having an issue with AWStats updating its temporary database. I have the call to update the reporting database every hour through launchd, which runs as root. The perl scripts are called, and nothing gets updated. Troubleshooting demonstrated the following warning: > Warning: Failed to rename "/tmp/awstats082013.food.tmp.1641" into > "/tmp/awstats082013.food.txt". Write permissions on "awstats082013.food.txt" > might be wrong or file might be opened. The permissions on that file is 777. The permissions on /tmp are also 777. Why AWStats cannot modify that file is really the question. I can do this manually using sudo, but the bash script that is run hourly by launchd shouldn't have to take the sudo -A, nor does it work. Any advice as to how I can push through this, is appreciated.


Textarea tags and SEO

On my site, I want to give the user the ability to copy the code for our little support badge, and then paste it onto their site/blog. I'm accomplishing this by adding `<textarea></textarea>` tags in a widget in the sidebar, and the code for the badge is in between the tags. Would this affect my SEO in any way, since it's just a snippet of HTML coding that is visible, and not real content?


Rewriting URL to get Wordpress "permalink" type URL

I have created an ASP.NET site to replace a WordPress site that creates permalinks in the format:               http://example.com/the-name-of-my-post      I would like these URLs redirected to:               http://example.com/Default.aspx#&&the-name-of-my-post      ...which is what the ScriptManager generates at runtime. The WordPress site was around for about 2 years so there are lots of bookmarks and references to these "permalinks" on the search engines etc. Are there any modules I have to include in my website to get this to work? Is there any configuration that I have to ask my hosting company to make so that this works?


How to recover after malicious code removal?

I just removed some malicious code from one of my client's website's theme. It was a result of a pirated theme the client was using and had ignored some hidden code with hyperlinks to betting sites. According to my knowledge I can not do much but to wait for the pages to be crawled again and the change be noticed. Am I right with this assumption or is there any action that webmasters can take in this kind of situations?


SEO: Best Title for the Car Repair company (Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda)

What would be the best Title for the home page for the following situation? Company name: SuperCompany Professional area: car repair service, specialize in 4 brands: Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda. Our current variant: “SuperCompany – Best car repair service | Toyota | Nissan | Mazda | Honda"


Domain migration and duplicate content/index issue

I have a `website.net` which I want to 301 redirect to `website.com` and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new `.com` site. Problem is that `.com` is currently set as _Website Alias_ of `.net` version, which means that there are same pages indexed in Google from both domains. I could 301 `.net` to `.com` and then after a while 301 new URLs on `.com` and update old `.net` redirects at the same time but that would take too long time, given I would have to wait in between for Google to update everything. Is there a better and faster solution to this, which is still in line with Google recommendations when migrating domains?


Google news sitemap to many URLs

I created a Google news sitemap a while ago then about 6 months ago limited it to about 15 news items. The trouble is it seems Google has indexed over a 1000 items and is complaining the sitemap has to many URLs when if you go to the sitemap it doesn't, just 15, any ideas? Have resubmitted the sitemap and says it was last processed yesterday.


DNS configuration on website makes it available only some of the time

The DNS configuration on my website is periodically dropping visitors and I have no idea why. Most of my website's visitors are seeing it fine, but in the last weeks more and more visitors report that the website isn't loading for them, like the website is down. My website is `www.2mp3.co.il` which points to `ns1.hosty.co.il` and `ns2.hosty.co.il` (that I've pointed to 109.236.84.71 and 109.236.84.74, and additionally configured it to itself as `ns1/2.hosty.co.il`) My server is working with DirectAdmin and centOS - in the DA the NS records for the hosty.co.il domain points to ns1/2.worldstream.nl What could the problem be?


How to restrict site access to all countries except mine with .htaccess?

I used this tool to download list in " **.htaccess allow** " format to allow traffic from my country and restrict all others but it's still accessible when visiting from bunch of foreign proxies. I'm restricting access to my home dev server where i certainly don't need traffic from China, Uganda, Russia and other countries i found while inspecting Apache logs. Apparently, this format doesn't seem to work:               <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     allow from 37.18.184.0/22     allow from 37.18.188.0/22     allow from 37.19.104.0/22     allow from 37.19.108.0/22     allow from 37.35.8.0/22     allow from 37.35.12.0/22     allow from 37.35.64.0/22     allow from 37.35.68.0/22     allow from 37.77.168.0/22     allow from 37.77.172.0/22     deny from all     </Limit>


Google not indexing video from video sitemap

I run a website serving video content. I run my own player. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mTe9s.png) I have added Google’s structured markup to the video tags. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gb2mU.png) Here’s the link to test a page. I also have the sitemap pointing to a video sitemap xml ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7R3YQ.png) But for some reason Google is not picking up these pages as video ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NOn1i.png) Just two of them are mapped as video of the 115 submitted. **What could be the reason here?** The video recipes are duplicated in another sitemap but I don’t think that’s the reason. Note: _You'll also see it's the same with images_.


Are SEO and SEM click through rates correlated?

If not, why; and how would you estimate click throw rates for a SERP?


Best and safest SEO way to hide h1 tags

I want to use images that I created in PS for page titles. Because they will be images they will not be picked up by Google, etc. What is the best practice for hiding the `<h1>`? I was planning on setting the `<h1>` visibility to hidden. Is this ok to do? **update** I want to hide `<h1>` tag behind header image. I read how to do it if I just link an image (fine). My header is a little different. I have a background image taking up the whole header div. On top of that I have a flash file playing (mostly transparent) with some star burst effects. I want this to be SEO friendly.


Measuring the page load time

Can anyone provide an overview of what the steps are to create a tool such a Pingdom's page load time tool? I see a lot of these out there that do essentially the same thing, but I am not sure how to go about creating a tool to do this


What is Google's policy about separate content on same URLs in mobile and desktop versions?

I'm currently developing a mobile version of my site where users' devices are automatically identified and then displayed either mobile or desktop view of the same URL. For usability purposes, I would like to display different information on certain URLs in mobile than desktop. For example, I'd prefer the content to be straight on first page on mobile, whereas my desktop root domain is a landing page.   * How will such arrangement affect Google's opinions about my site?   * Is is hurtful for my rankings?   * Or does Google separate desktop and mobile results?


Determine what percentage of visitors to my site leave without taking a certain on-page action

On Rap Genius you can click the orange lyrics to read pop-up explanations: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AKguO.png) However, I'm sure some visitors don't know that the orange lyrics are clickable. I'd like to figure out **what percentage of visitors to song pages on Rap Genius do not click a single orange lyric before leaving** Right now I fire a Google Analytics event whenever someone opens an explanation, but I don't know how to use this data to answer my underlying question.


Prevent .htaccess 301 redirects on subdomain

I have 301 redirects which direct `/index.html` to `/site` folder and when I created a subdomain it also redirects the link to `/site` which causes `404 Not Found`. For example: `members.mysite.com` redirects to `members.mysite/site` which causes 404 error can I add execption for specific forlder or something without changing the redirect. .htaccess content:               AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm .html     RedirectMatch 301  ^/index.html(.*)$ /site$1


SEO-friendly masthead with a hidden <h1> and <h2>

I have built a website and the masthead uses an SVG that contains the site title, logo and support graphics. The masthead still contains the logo as an inline image, and `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags. However the logo and header tags are all hidden using CSS in favour of the masthead graphic. The HTML shown below may not have been uploaded to the website at the time of writing this question, just in case you're wondering why the source code of the URL is different. But that's what it will look like. Does this affect SEO? As the HTML does match the masthead content and doesn't contain spam or fake keywords. It also matches the page title in the browser window.
              <a class="logo hidden" href="<?php echo $appurl; ?>" title="All Together"><img src="<?php echo $appurl; ?>img/logo2.png" alt="All Together logo">
All Together - Work Placement Software

Online software for efficient placement management


Getting 403 Forbidden after changing webroot

I am running Ubuntu with Apache (LAMP stack). When I changed the webroot from /var/www to /media/data/www, I keep getting 403 Forbidden even after `chmod- ing` the directory + files to 777. What did I do wrong? Also referencing /var/www, I noticed that the directory + files are owned by `root` should that be the case? Shouldn't it be `www-root`? Also if its root, will apache not be able to access it? I noticed that I am getting errors like > [Wed May 11 11:53:40 2011] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: > /media/data/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure > it is readable but thing is, my web root is `/media/data/jm/www`


Removing items from a sitemap

I'm having a problem removing some unwanted links from my sitemap. The hierarchy which we have in the sitemap is incorrect. I don't want that be like that. Is there any way which I can change it? Please refer to the below screenshot. I want to remove the highlighted items from the current sitemap. ![screenshot of sitemap](http://i.stack.imgur.com/G4GeM.png)


Flash Twitter and Facebook widgets

I'm stuck with a crappy digital signage platform that only renders `.html` and `.swf` files (and RSS feeds). No customization of RSS, only way to show something dynamic in a pretty way is to use Flash. The question: is there any way to embed JavaScript in `.swf` files or somehow have Facebook and Twitter Flash plugins? I looked for ready-made `.swf` widgets for the job but didn't find any, if there is **_any_** Flash widget that serves a Facebook and/or Twitter feed please give me a link.


Are CloudFlare or Google Analytics visitor numbers more appropriate to report to advertisers?

I've read Analytics: CloudFlare vs Google - What discrepancy is too big? but still can't put together an answer that the CEO of any company would accept. The numbers in CloudFlare analytics are much larger than those reported by Google Analytics. If a website needs to give numbers to advertisers, should GA be used considering the JS involved is more close to the Google DFP way of thinking rather than the CF way? Should I give them the CF stats and when they question the discrepancy in numbers between what Google DFP says and CF says, tell them what CF says about their analytics?


How does Google consider internal linking with navigation?

We are currently discussing tweaking our website's navigation in an effort to optimize the flow of page rank via internal links. I am a web dev in a team of 3, with an SEO guy and a copywriting guy. Currently our main navigation consists of a single tier dropdown menu, which matches the architecture of our site exactly (besides one or two second tier pages). As a result every page effectively links to every other page, all of the time, via the navigation. I was under the impression that Google, and other search engines, would see that this is a navigational element that appears in every single page, in exactly the same way, and not spread link juice in the way that internal links in the content would. However we are talking about only having the nav menu just be single links, with no dropdown menu, just linking to the initial sections, which in turn have a sidebar nav menu that links to all the sub pages, which appear relative to the section you are in. Would this have an actual effect on link juice 'flow' or not? This is just something I am curious about in order to broaden my knowledge on SEO and how the search engines view our pages.


FFmpeg & Installation on phpmyadmin

I am attempting to have an interface in which people can upload music files and listen to them through the site. The biggest problem obviously is that someone who uploads an audio track in mp3 format into Mozilla wouldn't be able to play it back (since MF doesn't support mp3 playback since I'm using jPlayer). I did some research and found out that I could use command line php using FFmpeg to convert the mp3 to ogg or some other supportable format. I believe I understand (a little bit) how command line php works but I was wondering how I could install it onto phpmyadmin on my hosting service? Could anyone link me to a tutorial or care to explain? I tried googling it but I just couldn't find it.


Moving from one DNS provider to another

I had registered with a particular DNS provider X and I have been unhappy with their services and now when the time for renewal came, I did not renew and I let it expire. I am hoping that once it is expired from this provider, I would be able to sign up for the same domain name from an alternative provider which I have tested and I am satisfied. What kind of precautions should I take? The domain name is not a critical one, it is of a NGO and we prefer to own it again without any change in the name. The information given by the expiry notice says               Domains can be renewed between 90 days before and 14 days after the expiry date. If domains are not renewed they will be removed from the account and set for deletion.      Should I wait for time till gets _deleted_ at their end so that I can sign up for the same from another provider?


Highly SEO optimised forum posts

Given the following forum post: > **Basics of how internals of Construct work** > > I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a few 3d > engines with it. I have also looked at Unity, though I didn't get too much > into it. So I know my way around programming etc... > > My question is, how does construct work internally? I know it allows python > scripting, which itself is "technically" interpreted, though python is > pretty fast as far as being interpreted goes. But what about the rest? Is > the executable that gets cre... The forum software will take the first 150 chars of the first post as the page meta description, and the title will be the thread title. All ok. So in Google it will appear as: > **Basics of how internals of Construct work** > > I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a few 3d > engines with it. I have also looked at Unity, though I didn't get too > much... > > `http://www.domain.com/forum/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html` Now the problem is (not so much with this thread, but other ones) is the first 150 chars don't always create the best meta description. Is it worth my time to cherry pick threads and manually set their description/title tags so they read like: > **Internal workings of Construct 2** > > Events aren't converted to any other language. The runtime is a standalone > compiled EXE application, which is optimised and actually very fast. Your > events... > > `http://www.domain.com/forum/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html` The H1 on the page is still the original title, but we have overridden the title and description to look more friendly on search results. Is this advantageous forgetting the obvious time cost?


Pseudo-external links and SEO

I don't know, how to name such a links. Main idea is following: I write a post at a community, which I do not control, and place a link to my web-site: > www.mywebsite.com When post is saved, my link is converted to this: > `http://www.some-community.com/outgoing?http://mywebsite.com` It does't have "nofollow" attribute value. When i click this link, i get notification page, like this: > "You are going to follow to external site. Continue ?" This page contains the actual link to my website, again without "nofollow". How such a pseudo-external link will be handled by Google's and other search engines? I think, this will be no problems with reaching my website, but extra hop. Or? Will posting a link on such communities increase ranking of my website? **Update 1** Just rephrasing my question: I promote my website in some communities via writing posts (with links to my website). These communities having such redirect notifications, like "You are visiting external site. Continue ?". The question is - will using such communities increase my ranking ?


How to compile a complete list of valid TLD and ccTLD domain extensions

Most domain extension lists i've found only list the ccTLD and TLD portion of the extension (e.g. `.uk`) and don't list the full set of valid extensions for that ccTLD or TLD (e.g. `.org.uk`, `.ac.uk`, `.co.uk`, etc). Without researching the registrar policies of every single ccTLD in the world, is there a way for me to compile/obtain a complete list of all current valid domain extensions in the world?


Privacy Policy & Terms - Holder of the treatment

I have a legal question: Often I see in Privacy Policies and Terms of Conditions the point/field entitled: "Holder of the treatment." Usually in the "Holder of the treatment" field, websites puts their own physical street address / office address, and sometimes the holder puts his own name in that field. So is it officially needed, or is it just something I can avoid adding into such legal texts? **NB:** I'm Italian, so I need to follow Italian laws. I only found this link: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titolare_del_trattamento_dei_dati But it's in Italian so sorry, and I can't understand if I need to put the "holder of the treatment" in legal text.


CheckCaseOnly doesn't work, while CheckSpelling does

I'm trying to globally set `CheckCaseOnly on` to make my webservers folders case insensitive. It doesn't work though? I don't need it to correct spelling - thus I'm not using `CheckSpelling`. Apache2.4 on Ubuntu.   mod_speling is enabled.


Rewrite URLs not working - wrong method or conflict?

I've been at this for about an hour now and I'm not having much luck. htaccess files are quite new to me, so I'm obviously doing something very wrong. Current htaccess content, which I need to keep:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^blog-page-([^-]*)$ ?page=$1&p=home [L]     RewriteRule ^blog-([^-]*)+? ?d=$1&p=home [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]      I need to redirect 100+ old (WordPress) URLs back directly to the domain, such as:               /some-url-as-seen-by-google/ -> www.domain.co.uk      They all follow the same pattern, for example:               /something/some-url-as-seen-by-google/     /some-url-as-seen-by-google/      I've tried all kinds of RewriteRule, RedirectMatch 301, Redirect 301 rules, but I just can't seem to get my head around it, or get it to work.


Are the space and the / required in the <br /> tag?

Back in the day, I remember writing many a webpage without using / in the   tag. What changed? Also, is the space "required?"


Having hard time to hide directories on my site

i'm trying to hide some directories on my site by returning 404 not found error codes instead of forbidden, the problem is that the files in the directory becomes not available to php. how can i hide the directories by returning 404 error codes for them without making them unavailable to me also? i have seen this in apple.com and facebook.com. this is the code i'm using in .htaccess:               Options All -Indexes     RedirectMatch 404 ^/classes(/?|/.*)$     RedirectMatch 404 ^/css(/?|/.*)$      if it's not possible how can i hide them without returning 403 because wans a hacker sees 403 he will go make some coffee sit infront of his laptop and won't leave my site without some data. EDIT: this where i'v seen it http://images.apple.com/global/styles/ i'm not saying i want to hide very important stuff.... the important stuff are outside the web root, what i'm saying is i want to hide directories like this directory for example. `/media/` in this directory there are more than 800 directories in each directory there are more than 500 mp3's, how can i send 404 for all those directories but still be able to reach them through php or javascript, is that possible? and if not is denying access to all of this folders is my only solution?


How do you stop PDF hotlinking and automatically redirect hotlink clickers?

I have some PDF documents that I offer users once they have subscribed to my newsletter. Well, Google found them, and other people are posting them on various sites. I'd like to take advantage of Google ranking my PDF documents and redirect users that click on those links to an html or php page. How do you automatically redirect hotlinked PDF clicks (on Google search and other sites) to a relevant page (i.e. domain.com/PDFdoc1.pdf redirects to domain.com/PDFdoc1.html or domain.com/PDFdoc1/)? I want to keep the PDFs ranked where they are on Google, and keep the PDF documents exactly where they are on my site, but just redirect hotlinked clickers to a page instead of the PDF.How can this be done?


Scalable ASP.NET hosts for under $20.00/ month

I am looking for a scalable ASP.NET host for under $20.00/ month. I need it scalable just in case my website is featured on popular blogs and traffic increases dramatically (in that case, I would increase my budget). So far I checked Amazon EC2, Rackspace and GoGrid, but they are far too expensive. I also checked GoDaddy 4GH but it limits MSSQL to 200MB.


Is there a good [and modern] reason to not have static HTML pages with AJAX content , rather than generate pages?

_Assumptions: We don't care about IE6, and Noscript users._ **Lets pretend we have the following design concept:** All your pages are HTML/CSS that create the ascetics, layout, colours, general design related things. Lets pretend this basic code below is that:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">                           <link href="/example.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

                    Which in theory should produce, with the right CSS, three vertical columns on the web page. Now, here's the root of the question, what are the serious advantages and/or disadvantages of loading the content of these columns (lets assume they are all indeed dynamic content, not static) via AJAX requests, or have the content pre-set with a scripting language? So for instance, we would have, in the AJAX example, lets asume jquery is used on-load:               //Multiple http requests     $("body > div.left").load("./script.php?content=news");     $("body > div.right").load("./script.php?content=blogs");     $("body > div.mid").load("./script.php?content=links");      OR---               //Single http request     $.ajax({         url: './script.php?content=news|blogs|links',         method: 'json',         type: 'text',         success: function (data) {             $("body > div.left").html(data.news);             $("body > div.right").html(data.blogs);             $("body > div.mid").html(data.links);         }     })      Verses doing this:
                 <?php                     echo function_returning_news();                 ?>

                 <?php                     echo function_returning_blogs();                 ?>

                 <?php                     echo function_returning_links();                 ?>
               I'm personally thinking right now that doing static HTML pages is a better method, my reasoning is: I've separated my data, logic, and presentation (ie, "MVC") code. I can make changes to one without others. Browser caches mean I'm just getting server load mostly for the content, not the presentation wrapped around it. I could turn my "script.php" into a more robust API for the website. But I'm not certain or clear that these are legitimately good reasons, and I'm not confidently aware of other issues that could happen, so I would like to know the pros-and-cons, so to speak.


.co domain name & UK focused SEO - any good?

Does anyone know if a keyword-rich .co domain name can be listed and rank fairly highly in Google UK (assuming the content is correctly balanced and tailored for the keyword in question) ? Does Google class it as international?


What happens if I transfer domain from one registrar to another one?

I have several domains registered at GoDaddy. I bought them with private registration. What happens if I transfer these domains (together with hosting) to other provider? Where will I pay for renewal next year? Also what should I be aware of when transfering domains?


404 Hits from "PHPCrawl" on WP site

Forgive me if this is in the wrong area - I thought considering the topic, it belonged here (as opposed to in WP). Correct me or move it if I am wrong. I've been looking around one of the sites I control (one we've been having all kinds of little problems with) and checked my 404 logs. Usually I expect to see the generated captcha images and other random entries, but today I saw several of the site's pages on there with "/(" appended at the end, all with "PHPCrawl" as the User Agent. As far as I can figure, this is an open source script available for developers to use at their discretion. I've not used anything of the sort. I don't believe anyone else in control of the site has. Is it possible one of the plugins could have caused these entries? Is it automated from some search engine? Is it something I should be worried about hurting the site or its SEO?


SEO: Moving articles from one domain to another

Currently I have articles up on a website (site A) that is not mine (but I can remove the articles.) The article's aren't faring well (not only due to the recent Google changes) but because they really could do better if I made some tweaks myself instead of relying on the domain owner's SEO skills. So I would like to set up my own website and have just my articles on it (site B.) In the past when I've moved content, I've set up redirects but this time I can't do that. What would be the best way to move the articles without having to worry about them being counted as duplicate content or any other lame stuff? Should I, A: Save the articles on my computer and remove them from Site A. Wait for Google to remove them from the index (several months.) B: Remove the articles from Site A and immediately place them on Site B.


Are there any specific tips and tricks for optimizing a website for Bing?

Most available resources (even Bing community) promote the general principles for optimize a site in Google. My site is quite well optimized for a certain keyword combination in Google, yet in Bing it fails to even show up on 1st page. Now, I'm aware both engines do not employ same algorithm. In this case, then there should be particularities in Bing SEO, too. All I found online was pretty vague.


Ranking websites in Bing & Yahoo search engines

I'm finding it extremely difficult to rank websites on Bing and Yahoo. When a website ranks well on Google, why is it finding difficulties on Yahoo and Bing? Although the algorithms are different, I have read in some blogs that its easy to rank on Bing & Yahoo compared with Google. Is that true? Am I missing something?


Does AdSense script send website content to Google servers?

I am running a web application where I want to place context-sensitive ads in. The content being displayed is private data of my users (not visible to the public), like email content and such. Thus, for privacy reasons, I don't want this information to be redirected to 3rd partys, such as Google servers. Now, if I'd display AdSense ads, what exactly does this script do in order to display the ads? Does it just parse the content of the site and then display relevant ads or does it actually send the content to Google servers in order to find the right ads to display?


is free ssl certificate appropriate - only needed for login page

I need to protect the user's credentials on my website's login page. The rest of the website does not need SSL. I don't sell anything or accept any credit card information (now or in the future) either. It is important that user should not see any browser warning on the login page. Is a free ssl from startssl appropriate for this scenario?


Key performance indicators to measure online brand image

A company is going to launch an event and a series of online related content that will be published on it's website and promoted online and offline to it's customers and leads. The event will last for two weeks and related content will be promoted during that period a few days later. The main content types will be news stories, interviews, blog posts, videos, and photos. The purpose of this event and content is to improve brand image among it's customers. **What are the best online Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that can be used to measure success of this initiative?**   * Results and conclusions must me presented a few days after the end of the event.   * The measurement tools will be Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, and Topsy.   * We don't want to create more than 5 or 6 KPI's, because a lot of KPI's produce results that are hard to communicate in a 10 minutes talk to people that are not web-savy . Just to give you an example of what could be a possible KPI:   * Increase in the number of visits, where the visitor spends 25% more time on the site than the average of the last three months. _(Measured with Google Analytics)_ It looks like there's a lot of room for opinion on this question, but what I need is not opinions, but links to web pages. I'm looking for specific information about documented best marketing practices used today.


Point domain to a third party while retaining control over email

I own a domain and I need to point the domain to another domain which I don't own. I'm a contractor for the other company. The want me to do it, but I want to retain autonomy with regards to email for the domain.


SEO a site from another site

I use a vendor who has a site for ordering parts. The vendor sells many kinds of parts. Is it possible to perform some kind of SEO magic, where I can SEO, or direct users, to the vendor's site? For example, let's say the parts vendor sells car parts for all car manufacturers. If I own a Chevy site and buy parts from this vendor (who sells Toyota, Cadillac parts also), I would like to target customers who google Chevy Parts through the use of my site. Is this possible or is there a way this is possible? Or could I do something with domains/sub domains somewhere. Not really sure if buying a domain and creating a site to target users like this is possible.


Best way to let users enter 'infinity' in a html form

I have a form with a field "quantity" which can have the value "unlimited / infinity":               Quantity: [ ]      What would be a good way to let users enter "infinity"? Some ideas: 1) Tell the user that `-1` means infinity:               Quantity: [ ] (-1 = unlimited)      2) Tell the user that a blank field means infinity:               Quantity: [ ] (blank = unlimited)      3) Radio buttons               () Quantity: [ ]  or  () unlimited      Any ideas? Or links to related usability studies?


Does Google Analytics report multiple tabs?

Visitors to a site may have several pages open at once using multiple tabs or windows. Does Google Analytics provide any info on this behaviour?


Should I disavow natural backlinks on forums?

I was running backlinks analysis and it shown me some suspisious backlinks on forums. These links are natural, as users of these forums shared links with others. Should I disavow such links in GWT?


How can I validate HTML offline?

When I'm developing a website locally sometimes I want to check if the html is valid but I haven't been able to find a good tool. I want it partial as a sanity check when I'm troubleshooting layout issues. Can you please suggest a tool that can validate HTML **offline**? I'm not looking for validation inside of an IDE but something that will load the page from the web server. Thank you!


Is it good to refresh a page after a fixed interval?

I seen many sites which are refreshing their pages after a fixed interval. Sometimes it is 1-2 mins only. If i refresh a page after every 5 mins. It'll helpful to notify user with updated contents. Please tell me   1. should i use Ajax for the same instead of reloading the complete page?   2. Would it affect google analytics js script? Means, whether the counter for visits will be increasing?   3. Would it affect adsense?


How can I change the Google Analytics timezone?

All howto's I was able to find in the Internet is slightly (or even not slightly) different from the things I see in my real account. This things is also applicable to the official Google help pages (!). Where's the right place of this setting?


SEO AJAX Calls for Google

I have a working WordPress site that contains a custom navigation and retrieves a page based on title. So what it looks like is, lets say I have a page called `test` and the user selects `test` on the custom navigation. The `href` link that is placed would be `#!test`. Now I am fully using `Ajax` to call the content for `test` and that looks like:               $.ajax({             url: "/thenewsite/wp-content/plugins/mass/return_body.php",             type: "post",             dataType: "json",             data:             {                 'key_page' : key_page,                 'function' : 'page_grab'             },             .....      });      `return_body.php`:               $base = 'http://www.massmedicalstorage.com/thenewsite';          if ($fragment = $_GET['_escaped_fragment_']) {              $page = get_page_by_title($fragment);         print_r ($page);         exit;     }          $DBH = createConnection();     $response = array("status" => "ok", "code" => 1, "original_request" => $_POST); // CREATE REQUEST          if($_POST['function'] == 'page_grab')     {         $page = get_page_by_title($_POST['key_page']);         $response['data_retrieved'] = $page;              if($page !== null)             $response['status'] = "found";          }      Now the `Ajax` function than places the content retrieved based on design requested. So the area that is gray for me is, am I working with `Google` correctly for `SEO` `ajax` purposes? Am I returning my content correctly in the `_escaped_fragment_` section? Also how do I check to see if google is fetching the `ajax` content? If I am not properly retrieving a `snapshot` of my `html` how do I do so correctly?


Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools

I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I **redirected (301)** old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in " **Optimization>Remove URLs** " section of webmaster tools and still I get Duplicate title error. I want to know is any problem in redirecting? For example http://www.visakga.com/visa redirected to http://www.visakga.com/visa-and-residency PS, I used **Fiddler** to check 301 redirect and think it should be okay. Thanks in advance


want give access only one component backend manager users?

I want give access only one component to the back end manager users? it is possible?if yes please tell me how can?


How can I lookup all records in one go

I am using http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php to lookup dns records but they can only be looked up one at a time, eg MX OR CNAME etc. If I want to get a list of all them for a particular domain is that possible, using this?


Problem to stop Google-Analytics from tracking my website

In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik instead of Google- Analytics. So I removed my website from the Google Webmaster Tools page. I also removed the Google's script from the footer of my webpages. I checked several times that there are no links to any Google Tools (Google Fonts, Google Analytics) in my code. However Ghostery (Add-on for Firefox) shows that Google-Analytics still tracks my website. I checked the following pages on Google: The page www.google.com/dashboard/?pli=1 (Dashboard) lists my website (logically it shouldn't as I removed my website from it) but when I click on "Manage my sites" the page www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en&authuser=0 (Webmaster Tools - Home) my website is not listed any more and there is only a form to add a new site. The page www.google.com/analytics/ invites me to sign up and then doesn't list any website and shows a form to add a website. Do you have any idea about what I should do to stop Google-Analytics to track my website for good? Thanks for your help. ps) this is my first message on Stack Exchange, I hope my English is not too bad. Thanks you all for making this big community exist. Keep up the good work. * * * Update: Could the meta `<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />` in my code be the reason of the tracking? Answer: no, it's not related.


Impact of blocking site search from googlebot, but listing content pages in sitemap.xml

We have a fairly large site 600k+ unique pages with various unique URLs along with a custom, local search interface for the site. The search interface has sorting and faceting capabilities to allow users to limit results and change display. **We are getting over 200,000 search requests a day from googlebot alone, and have tried to address it in the following ways:**   * adding noindex to faceting and sorting requests   * adding `rel=next` and `rel=prev` to results pages to allow google to understand structure We are considering adding a sitemap.xml to ensure that content pages are found, and also attempting to add a ~~Dissallow~~ Disallow entry in the robots.txt for the search results. Does anyone have any experience with the effects of this? Ideally, we don't want to lose rankings or results in Google, but also would love to not suffer the impact of serving up 200k searches a day to a search engine bot that just wants real content and not search results.


If I block a page in robots.txt would I still be able to see the page in my browser?

What is the purpose of robots.txt? Is it to prevent bots from crawling pages? And if so, does that mean that I can still access the page through my browser?


What is the meaning of 'displaying' in Google Webmaster's Search Queries page?

What is the meaning of `displaying` in Google Webmaster Search Queries page? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XAAy4.jpg) I could not find the information in the documentation.


Can I improve load times by reusing images?

I've created a website that has multiple pages, and each page has it's own dedicated folder. Inside of each page's folder I've created a dedicated image folder. I reuse many of the same images (logos, buttons, etc) across the site, but I always link from the current pages dedicated image folder. Would my images load faster if there was only one image folder (placed in the root folder), and each page used that as the source of its image files? Will this cache the images?


Is there an open source solution that I can host on a web server that will allow users to anonymously upload a file to me?

I'm looking for some kind of web application I can host on my Linux web server that will allow users to upload files of arbitrary size to me from their browser without requiring them to log in. Ideally this application would allow me to generate a link to my website that allowed for a one-time use upload. It might contain a unique, random key that was only good for that session. I could email them the link, they click it and are taken to a page where they can upload their file to me. I'm mainly targeting friends and family that need to send me files that are too large for email. I don't want to require them to install anything (dropbox), sign up and log in, etc. I'm definitely not teaching them to use FTP. This wouldn't be a difficult project for me to roll on my own but I'd like to take something off the shelf if it is possible. Does anything like this exist that my google-foo isn't turning up?


Are there any other tags that have the href attribute except <a>?

I hope this is a suitable question for pro webmasters. Are there any othertags that have the href attribute except `<a>`? If yes, please tell me which. Thanks!


Problem uploading files, access denied via cPanel, while not in FTP

I have problem with uploading my files via cPanel but it works by FileZilla (FTP). It was said:               upload canceled: VIRUS DETECTED (Access Denied, ERROR).      I have tried uploading files via cPanel using Windows, Macintosh and Linux but return the same result. How can this happen by using cPanel, while not in FileZilla?


Problem with homepage's SEO when using subfolders in a multi language website

After watching a hundreds of threads about **multilanguage website** I haven't found an answer to my specific problem, so I think its not a common issue and I must have done something terribly wrong ;-) We have a brand.com website in DE main language and the following subfolders:   * /de/ = canonical of / + redirect to /   * /it/    * /en/ **When I crawl google.com for EN keywords or google.it for IT keywords then I get as results the homepage in German language (both title and description) as the top result with no trace of the /it/ or the /en/ homepage.** Is this because /it/ and /en/ both needs a separate link building strategy? I've already configured Google webmaster tool into the following way:   * brand.com, no language preference   * brand.com/de/, de language   * brand.com/it/, it language   * brand.com/en/, en language Perhaps having "/" as DE main page is it wrong and I should use a different approach? i.e. like having "/" to be a 301 to /de/ instead ? Thanks in advance.


Setting CNAME confusion

I don't get how `CNAME` DNS records work. I always thought setting               bar.example.org.        CNAME  foo.example.com.      would let me request `bar.example.org` and receive `foo.example.com` while I own the domain `foo.example.com`, and somebody else owns `bar.example.org`. That doesn't make sense, because I could point any domains (even without permission) to my content. So, I thought it's rather the other way around, and if I'm the owner of `bar.example.org` I can point this domain to `foo.example.com`. That would be weird as well, as my page would display somebody else's content that the owner might not even be aware of. So how does a `CNAME` actually work?


Assign subdomains to separate ports on web server

I have set up an Abyss web server as a little experiment, and I want to know if it is possible to assign subdomains to different ports on the machine the web server is running on. I have a couple web UIs that I'd like to assign subdomains:   1. `192.168.1.1:8000` becomes `example.com/webui1/`   2. `192.168.1.1:8001` becomes `example.com/webui2/` The webUIs are available by accessing their ports via example.com:8000. I have tried using a reverse proxy, but it seems that this is only usable on one internal IP at a time. What other options do I have? Answer is good, but my current set up doesn't meet the requirements. Abyss Web Server X2 is required to use Virtual Hosts with Abyss.


Mobile phone detection (brand, model, browser etc)

What do you use to detect visitor's mobile phone, down to the model if possible? Currently we maintain our own database but it's really getting behind due to lack of manpower to maintain it, so we decided to give 3rd party solution a try. These are my candidates but I don't have time to really try them all:   * DeviceAtlas - 1 year personal evaluation, but basic license is affordable. Their database look solid with daily update and user-contributed tests / updates. I am favoring this one at the moment.   * DetectRight - I was recommended this by a colleague but really can't find much from their site. 20k devices -- really?   * WURFL - Open source, database collaboratively derived from UAProf. So basically if you're going with UAProf solution, you're better off with WURFL.   * DetectMoBileBrowsers - This looks like the simplest of all. Too bad it's language dependent (PHP). Please share your experience or suggestions!


SEO: One domain with numerous sections, or various different domains?

If I have a site with numerous subcategories would it be better to have one domain with each subcategory linking off it, or a domain for each subcategory? For example, if it's a sports news site, it might be something like:               sportsnews.com     sportsnews.com/football-news     sportsnews.com/cricket-news     sportsnews.com/tennis-news      etc. The idea would be that there's an overall common layout to the sites, but the content and theming is different. The alternative approach would be something along the lines of:               sportsnews.com     footballnews.com     cricketnews.com     tennisnews.com      From an SEO point of view, is it best to have the one site with the rest linking off it so all the links to it are driving up the page rank collectively, or would it be best to have separate domains so that the domain, meta, title and description of each individual site all match up to the expected search keyword of `(sport name) news`? If the latter approach were chosen, would linking to the individual domains from the primary one then be detrimental to the overall network of sites? **Edit: Please note that sports is just an example. You can assume that although the subcategories are related 95% of users will not be interested in any others than the one they searched for.**


DNS propogation question with name server change

The registrar I have is networksolutions.com, and for quite a while, the name servers were pointing to Site5.com, where hosting is for one of my domains. I wanted to bring DNS control back to networksolutions, so I pointed the name servers back to networksolutions and added in all my A records. However, I noticed that the site soon became unreachable. I'm curious as to why this happened? If the domain was pointing to either the old name servers or the new ones, it would still have the proper A records and whatnot. Is this because when I changed name servers, a request was made to delete them completely, and then the DNS servers worldwide have to wait for network solutions to send out the new ones or something? I was hoping this would be a switch with zero downtime, such as a normal A record change.


Live chat solutions

What good live chat/live help solutions are available (preferably for use on a site hosted on a LAMP stack and free)? I'm looking for a way to allow our sales and customer service reps to talk directly with visitors to our site. I've looked at phpopenchat, but it looks very unpolished. The only other free live chat app I've come across looked egregious. The aesthetics and UI design alone made me shudder to think what the underlying code might look like. This isn't a critical feature, and it wouldn't be hard to code up myself, so I'm not really looking for commercial software or paid services (unless there's a really compelling reason to use them). I'm just wondering if any other webmasters have come across a satisfactory free/open source solution for providing live customer support on their website. As a side note, live voice chat would also be an option, but it has to be be designed (or customizable) for customer support rather than a public chatroom. **Edit:** Looking at the responses, it looks like there probably aren't going to be many free solutions for this type of business-oriented chat solution, so feel free to post answers even if they are commercial solutions as long as they're a good value. Also feel free to post any alternate live support solutions (such as the Skype recommendation) that could be in someway integrated with a website. This will give me a good lay of the land for what people are actually using for live support, and I think will be more helpful to others reading this question.


Looking for CMS for managing courses

I'm looking for a good CMS for managing courses. I don't want to run these courses via the internet - so I'm not looking for an e-learning CMS. What I need:   - create a database of courses, workshops with detailed description etc..   - allow users to register to the platform, subscribe for courses   - create profiles for tutors - with a short description etc.   - besides normal courses I would like to create some courses "in plans" - if there will be enough people interested in such course, we will try to organize it   - I also need to have the ability for users to send us information about courses they demand (i.e. they go to a page of the course that was run some time ago and click "do it again!" ;) )   - create the ability to give us a feedback after the course (polls etc) I was thinking about moodle or dokeos but since I don't need the e-learning platform (only platform to manage the courses...) don't you think it's a little bit too sophisticated tool in my situation? What CMS would you recommend?


Posting books in a blog?

I saw this blog that posted chapters of books so the full books (etc. hunger games, twilight...) and was looking to so something similar. Is it legal to post a full book online? If not can you post a few chapters?


Putting ads on Facebook, iframe

I've made a Facebook app, a small card game, which works with the Facebook iframe option. My question is: is it allowed to put advertisements on the original page where the iframe links to, so it appears in the Facebook app? Are there any limitations? Which advertising companies allow this? (I've heard of Adsense, ain't to fond of it...)


Getting user generated content with no titles to rank

We are creating a site that allows users to generate content. The user is provided with a text field only (no title), similar to Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Each piece of content created by the users will have a dedicated page/URL. Since the page has no title, I was wondering how search engines will index and display our pages. If the content was shared on other social networks, what will those results look like if there is no title for the open graph or Twitter tags?


What do I put in htaccess to create a 410 error page when a URL parameter is present?

I tried to create a 410 error page but realized that I actually created a 302 redirect to a `410.php` page. Instead I want to use a 410 error to block out an infinite number of dynamically created pages that are being indexed by Google. I have about 30k internal links that are indexed on Google thanks to a faulty internal search engine:   * `http://www.example.com/?searchkey=1_q`   * `http://www.example.com/?searchkey=2ak` - (etc... goes on for 30k times) What should I write in `htaccess` to block anything with this "searchkey" parameter such that a 410 error page is served? (I'm not a programmer, so I would appreciate a simplified response.)


Registering a domain without an email address

I am soon going to be getting a domain and setting up email addresses for me and a few of my partners in business. I personally do not want to be tied to my current Outlook.com email address and I don't want to have to use that address to manage my domain settings. I will not be using my old address once I have my personalized domain and email address. Are there any domain registrars that do not require and email address or allow you to change it later?


Non HTTPS site is indexed as HTTPS in Google Search

I have hosted a site over shared hosting (ipage) and not have setup SSL certificate (which I don't need), but some how Google have indexed it as HTTPS link which popup security error on opening it. Check here. I tried with 301 redirection by adding following in my _.htaccess_ file:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on          RewriteRule .* http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}     </IfModule>      But no luck with this. It may be because I am using shared hosting. Only homepage is indexed as https other pages are indexed fine. Is there any other way to tell Google to index it as HTTP instead of HTTPS?


Reporting paid links to google - does it work?

I am noticing that my competitors have a boat load of paid backlinks, which don't seem to be discredited from google (PR is intact, rather then 0) Problem is, those sites aren't any gambling or viagra sites, where google really cracks down. They are Software niche sites, open source sites, communities etc but they still sell links effectively. They have a sidebar, where it says "Our sponsors" or something similar and "become a sponsor" below it. I have seen other sites getting penalties because of something like this, but those sites, don't for some reason. My question is, does google even take spam reports for paid links seriously? Or do they only take action if its overly spammy? Some of the purchasers of those paid links are reputable sites like oreilly.com or even symantec. What can I do to have my report reviewed rather sooner then later and acted upon? Or am I misjudging those links? Tbh I do not see how these followed type of links, you can only get by "donating" is anthing else then a paid link. Here a few examples (notice the tell tale sidebar/footer): http://www.givecamp.org.uk/ http://www.gl-net.org.uk/ http://www.dfwqaa.org/ http://www.padnug.org/ There are many more like it, but I think thats enough as example.


What exactly does "exact" and "broad" mean in keywords adwords tool?

I have read several articles on this, but still fail to understand. For example I have the following keywords in adwords:               Cheese in NY - Volume: 22.000 searches     Cheese NY - Volume 22.000 searches      and               [Cheese in NY] - Volume: 100 searches     [Cheese NY] - Volume: 90 searches      Why the big difference? As far as I understand [keyword] does not mean its actually typed in in quotes. So if only 100 people use Cheese in NY, where do the other 21k searches come from?


Placing links to own site in templates?

I wonder if its good or bad to put links to your own site when u design a theme eg. in Tumblr? I noticed this when i saw many links to my site from people's tumblr using my templates. Maybe i should use nofollow on those links?


Drop in traffic, but same rank position - Why?

My traffic dropped recently in the last week. The most recent change was when I moved the entire server too another server. Could that affect my seo some how? What could have possibly happened? My main keywords for my website seem to be in the same rank, but I am getting less traffic from those keyword for some reason. Any ideas?


Static HTML to Wordpress Migration SEO Implications?

Recently, I migrated a client's site to a new server and a new home within WordPress so they could more easily edit their website and start a blog section. The static site was 10 years old a was showing up at place #3 for it's primary keyword, consistently, according to my client, and has dropped to rank #6-8 following the migration. At launch, we made sure the urls were identical (save the removal of ".htm" which we used 301 redirects to compensate for) and we generated a new XML map and pinged Google with the new site. We keep a 404 log to make sure we're not losing any incoming links. We also have Google Webmaster Tools on this site and have zero errors/suggestions, everything seems OK. I was told by numerous sources that Google would not penalize us for the use of 301s, but it's the only thing I can think of right now that is different about the site, other than the platform. Any ideas about what we could be getting docked for?


DNS sub-domain registration

Is it possible to register a sub-domain if you don't own the base domain? For example, could I register NickLarsen.random.com if I don't own random.com?


SEO impact of 301 permanent redirecting a domain to a sub-directory of another domain?

I had my own experience of 301 permanently redirecting a domain to another (every page mapped) and Google properly worked everything out and it never had any problem SEO-wise. However, what if I'm redirecting a whole domain to the sub-directory of another domain in the same manner? For instance, `http://www.example.com/` 301 to `http://www.another.com/example/`. And everything underneath is correctly mapped such that `example.com/something/somepage.php?a=1` is 301 permanently redirected to `another.com/example/something/somepage.php?a=1`. Etc. Does anyone have any experience in this situation? Would it all work out good with regards to SEO?


Is there any overhead on making my webapp traverse more folders?

I understand there is a need of placing different categories of resources in separate folders for the sake of organization. But is there any noticeable decrease in page load speeds accompanied with it that adds up as you add more and more folders or go deeper folder within folder and so on?


Schema.org product variations with same url. Problem?

When displaying multiple products that are basically the same, let's call them **Product A** with different sizes, **30** , **40** and **50** , I choose to create only one page per product and avoid duplicates, since the size would really be the only difference. So in this page, I'm displaying the different product codes based on their size, ie: A30, A40 and A50. On a different page, for example, where **Product B** is listed, I would like to display related products, in this case, **Product A** (only a list with sizes and codes, no pictures). I can either display **Product A** by itself (which I don't want to, since a Product B30 would fit a product A30, for example), or display Product **A30** , **A40** and **A50**. Using schema.org, **itemprop="url"** , I would like to link to this product's page. The question here is, product **A30** , **A40** and **A50** are all listed in the same URL. Would linking these 3 products to the same URL pose a problem?


Does having same IP & some same content effect my SEO?

A client of mine came to me with a unique question that I wasn't sure of the answer to. He wanted to know that if he has a number of different websites (let's say 500 sites with their own domain name) on the same hosting package with the same IP, will that effect the SEO of the websites? I figured it wouldn't due to the fact they have their own domain but I wasn't sure. Another question, what if all 500 were on the same CMS and were all related in some way (category wise, let's say he's in the baking industry). Their content will be different (about 60% different) across the board but have the same template (only right now, eventually there will be about ten possibly more). Will that effect their SEO in any way (besides running the risk of duplicate content)? Thank you very much! I will try to follow up if anyone else has a question for me.


YouTube Copyright

I am interested in making a trailer channel, but I need to know if I can just take recently released movie trailers and upload the videos to my channel. It might sound like a dumb question, but I am just wondering if I can do this without penalty (i.e YouTube deleting my account) For Ex. Taking the new star trek trailer and uploading it to my channel. Great answers so far, however I want to have a channel based solely on Trailers. How do I go about doing this?


Social Counters made my site pretty slow on yslow rating

Two days back I added social counters on my listing page and that screwed up my Page Speed Grade and yslow ratings pretty badly. Before: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yQgAr.png) After: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/U7N5a.png) Sharing Options: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qZ21u.png) If I disable the sharing on landing page then I can see those awesome results back. Here is my blog link is How can achieve same or comparable results when social sharing is enabled.


Best practice for suEXEC on complex sites?

What is best practice for using suEXEC on complex sites? We've got a site running under a single vhost, and we want to be able to run different PHP web apps eg /forum /wiki /crm as their own UIDs, to help isolate any potential security threats. I've used apache2 + mod_fastcgi + mod_suexec to split multiple sites to unique UIDs by vhost before. However, mod_suexec's SuexecUserGroup directive only works inside a <VirtualHost> block, and is not valid in a more specific <Directory> or <Location> Is changing to lighttpd + suexec the only way to achieve this level of isolation without resorting to using a rewrite/proxy hack?


What are the best user data collection and gathering tracking tools?

I know of a few tool that help markets gather data about visitors, Google Analytic, CrazzyEgg, and KISS Insights. What are other notable tools to help track information? What do you use?


Can we change domain of YAHOO

I am facing big problem with Yahoo account How to change Yahoo ID `abc@yahoo.co.in` to `abc@yahoo.com` I have an account like `abc@yahoo.co.in` but I kept all my **Recovery Mails, C.V's, Given to Friends** like `abc@yahoo.com`. So I was not able to receive any mails from anyone and everyone is saying that they are not able to send emails to me. It says mail address does not exits. I was not able to create or convert my account to `abc@yahoo.com`. Its so disgusting that Yahoo people can't make a solution for this. May be this is one of the reason they have lost some of their market share. :'(


How can I track "user returns after X days" as a goal in Google Analytics?

I would like to set up goals that track specific cases of user behavior that we have decided are interest to us, such as when a user returns after having not been on the site for a week, or a month. So for example, I might report that of the 100 visitors to the site today, 33 of them were returning for the first time in a month, and 42 were returning for the first time in a week. This is already tracked to some degree in the Days Since Last Visit report, but the report seems very limited -- I really want a metric to use (like I use other goals) that just counts the number of cases of something. There are four types of goal available: Url, Time on Site, Pv/Visit, and Event -- the first three are not right, but it seems like I might be able to create an event that does what I want. I could do this by storing the last visit date in the database, or in a cookie, but am hoping to avoid this, as it seems redundant. Or maybe a custom variable that I set in some JS logic? Has anyone done anything like this?


google search result : webpage ranking order

![from google](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OJ2n4.png) I want to know when I typed - cheapest mobile phone in india. I get this website title inside the red box first (The title is not relevant to my typed phrase), whereas which is relevant, inside the blue box is positioned below.


Web content that cannot be found in Google's index is considered unique content?

What is the criteria for determining what unique content is? Is it content that cannot be found in Google's index? Or is there more to it?


Unusual Source in Google Analytics

When I'm reviewing the sources of my pages within Analytics, I'm occasionally seeing some values that appear to be incorrect/impossible. I'm not seeing it often, but definitely enough to skew some reports unless I add to my filter. I'm seeing a couple development sites that I'm working on (which have no relation to the production site that I'm viewing reports for) as sources for traffic to the site. These development sites have 0 links to the production site, so I'm not sure how Analytics is seeing them as sources of traffic in any way. There are times when I have both the production site and these development sites open in separate tabs on the same browser, but that's about the closest they are to connecting in any way. Any ideas on how this could occur?


What is the difference between IAAS and web hosting?

I've been googling to find out exactly what IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) is, but I don't understand how it is different from web hosting?


Force fresh content, not from the browser cache

I used the following code in the htaccess to put my site under maintenance and show the visitors maintenance.html.                Options +FollowSymlinks      RewriteEngine on      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$      RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]      My site is now back online but now I see that all those browsers that tried to go on my site during the maintenance, they are still getting the maintenance.html. It works if I clear the browser cache and I sort of understand why it is happening. I think the browser caches the redirect and is still doing it. How can I clear this issue?


Keyword repeated in tables columns and SEO keyword spamming

I have a table that lists episodes of a TV show and I have a genre column. Google sees the words in that column as keywords and I suspect that it thinks you are keyword spamming seeing as you may have the same word repeated over and over. How can I overcome this? It seems using images would act the same as the alt text would be the same as the text it's replacing.


Why is this website not getting PageRank?

One of my customer website is not getting ranked by Google. It's been more than an year and have 1500+ backlinks as per Google Webmaster Tools, but still PageRank is zero? Is this website being penalized and ranking against keywords are too low?


Statically mapping a PHP script to another script using an .htaccess file results in 404 errors

After having read a lot of posts on the topic of URL rewriting, I still remain stuck with `404` status errors. **My goal:** A **'static'** rewrite of URLs, as follows (user clicks or enters the one URL/script, but internally the other one is being executed - the parameters are also 'static', hence I think I cannot use any kind of pattern `(*.)` and `$1` in the rule...:   * `domain.tld/en/abc.php?foo` to `domain.tld/en/xyz.php?bar` (1st level)   * `domain.tld/en/abc.php?foo&blabla` to `domain.tld/en/xyz.php?bar&otherstring` (2nd level) **Additional Info:**   * Directory 'en' exists.   * Script abc.php **does not** exist   * Script xyz.php exists and works fine with the given static parameter(s) **My .htaccess:**               Options +FollowSymLinks      RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^en/abc\.php\?foo&blabla$ /en/xyz.php?bar&otherstring [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^en/abc\.php\?foo$ /en/xyz.php?bar [NC,L]      I already get a `404` error on this simpler last rule. I don't have access to the rewritelog.


block users by country in .htaccess

Is there a way to block users from a particular region. Currently I have compiled a list of over 100 IP addresses that I block in my .htaccess file. Unfortunately as the list grows I see a great number of offenders come for the same areas, like China. Can I block that entire country? Or region?


Moving from static site to Wordpress

I'm moving a site from static to Wordpress where all the pages in the old site were XXX.html. This has gone ok as I included a Wordpress plugin to handle the renaming of pages/posts to .html. I was wondering what I should do with pages that I don't plan to migrate. For example I combined their old location and contact pages into one page in Wordpress. I'd like to redirect the old location page to the new page on Wordpress. Is there a plugin for that? I wasn't able to find something or I was searching the wrong way. I read others suggest using 301 redirects, is that the best way? Thanks!


Is it better to host your own blog or use Medium?

Is it good idea create a company blog on Medium instead of setting it up on your subdomain. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Medium for your company blog? Can you you post your article on medium after posting it on your blog? How would you avoid penalty by google for duplicate content?


Collaborative editing and publishing software

Is there any CMS that focuses on collaborative editing wiki-style by anyone and publishing? Wikis are usable, but there is no 'publishing' per se - when you save a page and want others to work on it, it will be available to view to all. Work in progress should be separate and the final content can be published blog-style with RSS updates. An open license license is preferred, or at least free-to-use.


Magento store has home page url of just ip address and not actual domain name

I am looking into a friend's site which is really old and strange, and it has one thing really weird with it. If you go to the site here: http://www.crystalvine.com and click on "products" on the top menu, it takes you to the store's home page which is set up in Magento. Look at the url on that page. It is just an ip address. How could that be? Does anyone have any idea how to make it a domain name? I have access to the Magento account of that site, but can't figure out how to make the actual url show up. Thanks!!


How good is Traffic-Seeker?

I have recently setup my blog and I look forward to posting once a week. I want to increase traffic to my blog and was searching for good search-engine tools. I came across Traffic-Seeker and now I plan to buy it. Before I buy it, I wanted reviews from those who have already used it. Please let me know if there's any alternate to Traffic-seeker. I'm looking for a good tool to increase traffic on my blog.   * Is Traffic-seeker really good and does it work well?   * What other tools are available that can drive good traffic to my blog?


How do Search Engines Segment Against Locale?

Assume I run a multi-lingual website. If I had a Spanish section, it should be included in Spanish-segmented search engines such as   * Google Spain   * Google Peru   * Google El Salvador and excluded in the others. Likewise, even though the website would have content in Chinese, multilingual countries such as Singapore should feature content in their main language (English in this case). What is the best approach to ensure the appropriate language is associated with Google's search indices?


Content loading during scrolling and seems infinite (what script)

I've noticed on several websites that when you scroll down it loads content as your scrolling and this seems to go on forever.... What script is used for that loading system?


Bounce Rate for Macintosh extraordinarily high

Google Analytics is reporting a bounce rate of 10.24% for Windows Operating System and 8.79% for IOS for our home page. However, for Macintosh, it's reporting a bounce rate of 42.39%!! Looking at browsers rather than OS, I see Safari has a bounce rate of 26.5% and Chrome only has a bounce rate of 8.44%, Internet explorer has 10.59%. What can I do to investigate this further? Do you know why this could be?


View website like a search engine

I once found a site where you can enter a web address and it returns a view of the website with the elements a search engine would 'see' but in the same layout as the original website. I found these tools: SEO-browser.com and MozBar but they don't show the site in the same layout. So for example adverts loaded by Javascript after page load would not appear in the search engine view but it would still show a similar layout to the normal website view. I realise a search engine doesn't see the site this way and SEO-browser and Mozbar are probably more correct but this tool helps me understand what's going on better. I'm pretty sure the site I'm trying to find was mentioned on SEOMoz or another reputable site but I cant for the life of me find it. Any suggestions or similar tools would be helpful?


How has my blog been getting pageviews from news.google.com?

I don't know how but my blog has been getting pageviews from `news.google.com`. How is it happening? Is it possible that my posts would show in Google News?


What third-party services/libraries exist for user registration forms?

I'm looking for any existing services/libraries `(PHP preferrably)` that I can implement into my existing solution (wordpress/symfony) to handle user registration (personal information like name, address, e-mail etc.) What options exist today, or will I have to pull out my own?


Microdata with nested product and reviews

I have some HTML listing reviews with HTML like:

Loved it
          ......                     on Cool Product

      The problem here is that the product name is actually nested inside the review, and there is no way to distinguish it from the review title (which is also named "name"). Is there a way to solve this other than changing the HTML structure completely? For example, in made up syntax something like: `itemprop="Product:name"`or adding `itemref="../"` ? I believe I can duplicate the product name in a `<meta>` tag but that seems less than ideal. EDIT: I clarified the HTML example.


Working with an external programmer

Hello I want to build a website I found Programmer and He wants me I'll provide him a server with certain requirements. Where is the best website to rent a server ? What kind of access he needs ? How do I provide him access Without the ability to change things as payment information for your server ?


DNS zone record pointing to two different IP Addresses

I know this had been already ask a couple of times but all the answer I find doesn't seem to work.(See More: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/50103/33973) What A or CNAME DNS Zone Records should I put so these two conditions will work: (1)If my domain "this.us" is opened without the `www`, I want to point the domain to the bit.ly server: `69.58.188.49` (2)But if my domain is opened with `www` (www.this.us), I want to point the domain to a different server: `1.2.3.4`               This is what I've done so far:          A Record     @    69.58.188.49        www  1.2.3.4      But everytime I open my domain on a web browser, both domain with and without `www`, seems to open bit.ly instead of the two conditions stated above.


Google Dynamic Remarketing Excessive View Thru Conversions

We run several ecommerce sites that we had previously set up with tag-based remarketing. We created a new dynamic remarketing campaign and only tagged the product page to see how dynamically created lists would populate. Several of the dynamic lists began populating with more members than we had visitors to the store. There have also been more view through conversions than actual orders for that store. I have to think that because the dynamic remarketing seems to use a shared tag, and that tag isn't substantially different from our old remarketing tags, that it is errantly including all visitors and conversions for all stores in the lists (even though we haven't updated the tracking codes). Is anyone else experiencing this? How can we stop conversions from being counted from multiple stores?


http auth an iframe automatically so users don't have to login?

I have a members only site running WordPress and a stock images gallery running an old php gallery CMS. I want the members to only have to login once but I want to protect the gallery from the general public. I trust my members so I don't need anything spectacularly secure. I was thinking about using an iframe that auto logs into the gallery folder via HTTP authentication. Is this possible (if so how) or is there a better method?


Text Style behind an Image or Pic

There are times that surfers block images just to have a faster browsing (Block download images) I would like to have an option when this happen to show a style text with a large text in colors. So if the user block my images they still can see my main message.


Google Webmaster tools restricted to certain pages only

Is it possible to give someone access to webmaster tools, but restrict their access to specific pages only? We have a franchise and each franchisee might have their own SEO people who at the moment are asking for access to the Webmaster tools. But, we can't give them full access.


Two name servers?

I was told by my domain registrar that they require two name servers per domain name. I want to host my own DNS (to try it out, this isn't an important website) on my own server. I only really need one name server. Two questions: Is this two name server minimum a common requirement and will it work if I set ns1.website.com and ns2.website.com to the same IP address?


how to rewrite %20 in .htaccess

I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to:               RewriteRule ^/this%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/      How do I handle the %20? I have tried               RewriteRule ^/this\%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/      and               RewriteRule ^/this(\s|%20)file.pdf http://www.example.com/      but these have not worked. The website is part of a Wordpress network, so it doesn't have it's own directory or subdomain where I can place a .htaccess file containing redirects; it's a virtual subdomain with domain mapping. So, the Wordpress .htaccess rewriterule is preceeded by               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]


Trying to publish blog articles correctly on Facebook

I have this blog here: http://www.mareva.es/noticias **The problem:** when I try to share an article in Facebook, I get in the pre- publish page this text `amistades guadalajara club deportivo`. It is true I used another website (related to an sporting club) as base to make this new website, but I can not find the text "amistades guadalajara club deportivo" in the new one. Any help?


Free domains for site names?

I am going to create a forum for my clan from a game and I was looking for a way to point/redirect to an ugly/long domain name from a shorter domain name. I am looking for a provider similar to http://www.freedomain.co.nr/ but I am looking for more options and different domain extensions to decide which one would be easiest to use. So it would be something like www.niceclanname.domainext -> www.unglyhardnametouseandremember.com/clan/ What are the available services that do this?


How should a site respond to automated login attempts with phony usernames?

For the last couple weeks I've been seeing a consistent stream of 15-30 invalid login attempts per hours on my site. Many of them are non-sensical usernames that nobody would ever register for real, and often contain typical spam-related keywords. They all come from different IP addresses so I can't just IP block/throttle the requests. I'm not worried about unauthorized access to real accounts since they aren't using real usernames. And if it were a member of my site trying to brute force logins, they could easily scrape the valid usernames from the site, so I'm not worried about that kind of malicious behavior either. But what's the point of this type of activity? What would whichever bot operator is doing this have to gain by attempting all these logins?


How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters

When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is is like `http://ourdomain/thepage.aspx/x/8/x/` etc.x stands for no value in our application. It seems like googlebot seems which parameters it can use, because the urls are no link from the page. Is there any way to control this behaviour?


Self-referential hreflang attributes for single language website?

I've been told by an SEO company to add a `hreflang` attribute to every page on a single-language website (ie. 'self-referential' tags), but everything I've read about the hreflang tag, including Google's take, suggests that it's only really useful for multi-language websites. Adding this would be a huge amount of work for this particular site, and I really can't see the potential benefits (or even any indication that such a thing is considered best practice by anyone). This Google Webmaster blogpost does recommend using _self-referential_ `hreflang` attributes, but only in relation to multiple-language websites. > "If you have multiple language versions of a URL, each language page must > identify all language versions, including itself. For example, if your site > provides content in French, English, and Spanish, the Spanish version must > include a rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link for itself in addition to links > to the French and English versions. Similarly, the English and French > versions must each include the same references to the French, English, and > Spanish versions." Is there any SEO benefit to adding such a tag to a _single language_ website? E.g. Just a single instance, like:               <link hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com" rel="alternate">      ...to the document `<head>`? (Please note that this is in _addition_ to the obligatory `lang="en"` attribute in the `<html>` element.)


I want to know price for local listing

I would like to get listing from some of local listing so I want to know about that price for listing to their internet sites? this is my list : 1 Info group               2.Axiom          3.Starkness/Localize          4.Factual          5.Foursquare          6.Super pages          7.Best of the Web


Is there a website Virus Scanning Script?

Is there a script not a program that I can use for my file sharing site that scan files that are being uploaded for viruses and if it finds anything it will refuse the upload?


Duplicate meta tags and descriptions in GWT but they are fixed

How do I remove the duplicate meta tags and descriptions found in the HTML Improvements tab on GWT? The issues reported are because some people were linking to us with spaces or dashes in the URLs instead of "+" or also without the trailing slash. I have fixed these issues by permanently redirecting the errant URLs which can be proved with the Fetch as Google, but these issues are still appearing as issues on GWT: why are they still there? and how can I remove them (there is no Mark as Fixed)?               Correct: http://digiguide.tv/pick-of-the-day/26+August+2008/documentary-dont-tell-the-bride-laila-and-nick-is-this-what-lalia-really-wants-on-her-big-day/          Broken: http://digiguide.tv/pick-of-the-day/26-August-2008/documentary-dont-tell-the-bride-laila-and-nick-is-this-what-lalia-really-wants-on-her-big-day/


Registering a parked domain after it expires

I want to register a domain, but that domain is currently in use, parked. For the particular page, I queried _whois.net_ and found out that the domain expires 2014-12-16. How can I get the domain when it expires? When do I need to start placing the order for that domain? Can I simply do it with my preferred provider or should I contact _whois.net_ directly?


How to have google index a login protected url?

For example, my site: `http://abcde.foobar.com` is protected by a "single sign on" login page hosted at `http://sso.foobar.com`, so when a user visits "abcde", they get redirected to the "sso" login page always, and they have to login to access "abcde". It seems Google does not know about my "abcde" site at all, how do I make google know about my "abcde" site? Because a lot of my users are trying to search for "abcde" in google and the site doesn't come up. (my "abcde" url is very obsecure and not a word, so google should put my site on top if it had known about it)


What is the average acquisition cost of a Facebook "Like"?

Suppose you want to invest in a Facebook ad, targeted to a specific audience, how many $ would I need to spend to get one "Like" in my Facebook fan page? Note: I know not all users, industries, ads, landing pages, are the same, I am just looking for an average of past benchmarks on a $ per Like basis.


Process of automating domain registration?

I have a website where users register domain.com/user/username. I'd like to add a feature where users can search for and purchase a domain name that maps back to that URL. I'm not sure how big of a task this is - can anyone provide an explanation of what's involved?


301 Redirection for classic ASP website with IIS 6 server

I am new in the SEO field. I have relaunched my old website to a new one, and my guess is I need to 301-redirect some/many of my old pages. But I have deleted some of the pages from server which is not required in new website. That pages having good PageRank, so I'm thinking about 301 permanent redirect to relevant pages or home page. My website in classic ASP with IIS 6 server. Problem is that classic ASP does not understand a _web.config_ file. In an Apache server we can create a _.htaccess_ file and through which we can achieve redirection. So is there any option for classic ASP? I don't want those pages on server otherwise through properties I can set the redirection.


Multilingual website without language component in the URL

I'm working on a website for Canada which will have `French` and `English` versions. For `SEO` purposes, I would like to avoid using any language tag in `URLs` because I believe it will have more impact (e.g. `example.ca/products` better than `en.example.ca/products` or `example.ca/en/products`). I believe this is technically possible because the2 languages are sufficiently different that the `URLs` won't be conflicting with one another (e.g. if you want a "product" page, it will be `/products` in English, and `/produits` in French so you know which language the `URL` is about). Since `Google` (and most likely others) doesn't rely on the `URL` (nor `HTML` tags) to determine the content language I don't see any problems with search engines. To make this possible I've thought about using a `cookie` distinct from the session cookie (e.g. `example.org_language`) with long term expiry (e.g. `N` years) that will memorize the language chosen by the user. That way when people visit the website with a new browser session, they get served the proper language. I have already given up on users being able to switch one page from `English` to `French`: when people will chose `English` or `French` from the menu they will be redirected to the corresponding version of the home page. **Do you foresee any problems with not using a`language` component in the `URL` (whether domain or path)?** ( _as long as one makes sure`URLS` don't conflict_).


If I use a web hosting service with a custom domain name then later want to move to a different host, will I be able to use that same domain name?

Disclaimer: I am new to everything web development so I might have looked over something basic, but I tried doing a bit of research and couldn't find an answer to my question, which is why I'm asking it here. So basically over the past few days I have really become interested in web development and want to create a personal web page. From browsing around, it seems like HTML+CSS+JavaScript is a good combo to get something basic going. Once I get my page ready, I understand I have to find a web host to put my site up on the WWW. My question is, let's say I find some cheap hosting site that allows a custom domain but provides little bandwidth and I make www.hey.com. Eventually, the site gets poppin' and I want to ditch the web hosting service I'm with to either find a better service that provides more bandwidth or host my own server (however all that works). If I move to this new, better web hosting service, will I still be able to use the domain www.hey.com or would it be somehow registered as a "used-up" domain name with the previous web hosting service? I ask because I've got a really good name for the site but I want to start off with a smaller, cheaper web hosting service to experiment around and if I ever manage to get things kickin' then I plan on moving to a bigger, better service. But I don't want to use up the domain name with the smaller service that I use just for experimental purposes if it won't be available for the better hosting service later on. Also, this brings me to another question. Once I eventually ditch the cheap service and shut my page down, will results of it still show up in Google? Because I know Google has this "cache" thing that you use to view pages from a previous date or something like that but I'm not completely sure how it all works.


How to change website on device orientation change?

This question is in the context of a previous one but I think deserves another thread on its own. Being able to detect user agent and serve mobile or desktop version is good, but **is there also a way to detect orientation to serve website version when orientation changes**? For example on large mobile devices in landscape orientation and width 1024px or more, I want to show the desktop version, but if put on portrait orientation, I want to serve the mobile version. **In summary**   * desktop: landscape website layout   * mobile-large-landscape: landscape   * website layout mobile-large-portrait: portrait website layout   * mobile-small-landscape: portrait website layout   * mobile-large-landscape: portrait website layout Conventionally, this can be solved by using media queries and responsive design. However, the landscape and portrait websites have very little similarities, so it is easier to create both sites from scratch.


Domain registration partnership + availability check

I would like to create a simple module for my website that prints keywords and tells the user if the keyword is available to register as domain. Is there any domain name registrar who gives any kind of api to do this? I would like to show something like this: Keyword | .com domain | .net domain Website | not available | available - register at XX for $0.99! (<- affiliate link) [edit] @Anthony Hatzopoulos, @Anagio - I wasn't specific because I don't really care about the form. It can be some kind of widget that just has to be implemented or a raw api that returns data that must be processed before showing it to the user. Raw API without any interface would be the best since you can modify and control outputted data. I do realise however that if there would be any api available people would use it not to generate income for domain registrar, but to use it as free "whois" api operator. I assume that if there exists a domain registrar with such a feature - than it's propably coded in JS to secure the data.


Alexa Sites Linking In

I have read that Alexa updates its "Sites Linking In" only once per month (although ranking is updated daily, as I monitor it daily). Are there any webmasters here who track "Sites Linking In" and know how often it is updated by Alexa?