How is this site so fast?

how is the website http://dftba.com/ so fast? when i click a link it loads right then? what makes it work like this? how do i make it work like this on my site? some of the objects on the site are being hosted by a website called `ecogeek- cdn.net`? who is this company and why do they host the images of this site? i have been looking into this site some time because i want this site to be like mine site they site use Apache   they site use Python (when asked the developer told me this)   they site use jquery and jqueryui   they site is custom built not using wordpress   they site is ~~owned~~ hosted by liquidweb   they site gets a million users a month   they site launched in january   they site uses cpanel   ~~they site does not have SSH or FTP (i tried to connect but it denied me all)~~ they does have SSH and FTP but only allowed by their addresses Please;   my english is not as good as yours


Random Apache and NginX stops

I have a virtuell server from strato (german hoster) running on ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with plesk. Lately I have problems that my webserver once in a while doesn't respond request. so I startet watchdog with a check frequence from a minute. Apache serves php5. Watchdog Nginx message > The Web Proxy Server (Nginx) service on host xyz.de is down. The problem was > discovered on Mär 13, 2014 06:12 . Watchdog apache message > The Web Server (Apache) service on host xyz.de is down. The problem was > discovered on Mär 16, 2014 03:13 . Turning of nginx, apache has the same problems. The services stop and start again straigt away. Services are down for for something less than a minute. Watchdog sends me a message one minute later that the services (apache/nginx) started again. It seems that apache/nginx anyhow just crash. Neither apache nor nginx error.logs show anything. Any idea why this "crashes" happen and how I can figure out what may be the problem and how to solve it? I really appreciate your help


Analytics Tracking and SEO

I'm using piwik on some of my websites and recently switched from google analytics. I find most of the stuff same on both analytics. But i always had this question in mind that what am i supposed to track other than these ?   * Bounce rate   * Referral sites   * Keywords   * Geolocation   * Periodic data(Month, year, week) for above factors Any other SEO factors to be considered while tracking with any analytics software ?


Bounce Rate skewed by Conversion

We've got a landing page with a list of games and users generally either click the "Play Now" button (which goes to an external site) or they just leave. Currently, our bounce rate is 30%, but we can't differentiate between the users going to the conversion page or just leaving in our Bounce Rate %. Is there a way to specify that a certain URL shouldn't affect bounce rate in Google Analytics?


What is adding frog characters to my URLs?

While browsing the "Crawl Errors" section of Google Webmaster Tools, I discovered a set of very strange 500 errors in reference to my site: ![Froggy URLs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BAN8Q.png) I was able to track down what these characters are, and apparently they are the first two characters in the Unicode Private Use Area. My font just happened to map them to a frog wearing a tiny crown, and a symbol that resembles the numeral 7. These symbols only appear on the addresses of non-HTML files; office documents, PDFs, etc. - but they do not just appear in the file name. Where are these symbols coming from, and is there any way I can get rid of them so Google can properly crawl my site? Some background information:   * Using Web Server running WS2K3 with IIS6 and PHP 5.3.8   * Site encoding is UTF-8   * These symbols don't appear on the page, or in the source


Is it "acceptable" for a sub domain to be hyphenated?

I am putting together a site for a portal. Some of the subdomains have rather long names and I am thinking that maybe I should use hyphens to make the subdomain names more readable. For instance: `alternative-medicine.mysite.com` instead of `alternativemedicine.mysite.com`. However, I can't recall ever seeing a hyphenated subdomain - is this because it is generally frowned upon? Or are there technical (SEO) reasons why this appears to be the case? In short, will hyphenating my subdomains have a negative impact on SEO?


Why my web site was visited by ARPA?

20 minutes ago a user-agent with 66.116.153.122 IP address has visited my web site. It's domain is `rev.opentransfer.com.122.153.116.66.in-addr.arpa`. User- agent: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 AskTbSPC2/3.8.0.12304 Firefox/3.6.11`. Language: `en- us,en;q=0.5,de-de,de;q=0.8`. Compression: `gzip,deflate`. Oh, and my domain name ends with `.name`. Why ARPA has visited me?


I have a lot of keywords

I have 100 000 keywords on my website. But I can't put them in meta keywords tag, so I make a function who displays 20 keywords in the footer of my website, "randomly" for each "refresh of page". so like that Google can see them for each reloading of my pages. Each refresh page, gives him 20 other keywords. And I add a link for each keyword to the same content with each different URL, so I create a duplicate content. Can you give me a better solution for using all my 100 000 keywords, without using duplicate content?


SEO + ViewState = to the bottom for crawlers only? Is it cloaking?

I have some large controls that are swelling my ViewState to 10KB+. Ignoring the discussion about using alternatives to ViewState, I'm trying to minimize any impact my ViewState might have on SEO. Here's what my research has lead me to believe:   * A lot of developers like to **move ViewState to the bottom of the page** by overriding Page.Render. At first glance, this works great but **some people experience problems** when their site is under load, or if a user gets an itchy trigger finger and submits a form before the page is done rendering (before the ViewState is in place). There are enough question marks here that I want to avoid this technique.   * You can check if the UserAgent is a crawler (through various methods) and simply **disable ViewState when you're not dealing with a real user**. This also appears to do the trick (and in 3 lines of code), but some **people are concerned that this is _cloaking_** , and could actually do more harm than good to your SEO. While the intent in this case is obviously not cloaking, the result does render out significantly less KB to crawlers than to actual users and I can see the potential for automated red flags. I'm not satisfied with either scenario, and I'm not able to find anything more on the topic. My potential solution is to combine the techniques by **moving the ViewState to the bottom of the page _only when_ the UserAgent is a crawler**.   * The crawler doesn't use the ViewState anyway, so the potential pitfalls of moving the ViewState to the bottom don't apply.   * The same content gets delivered to crawlers and real users, albeit in a different order.   * The crawler sees all my juicy keywords right there in the first few KB of the page. I was **hoping that I could get some feedback** on this technique, especially the following:   * Could this still be considered cloaking?   * Are there any potential issues with this approach?   * Am I overthinking it? Is there an easier approach that I wasn't able to find through Google?


Does anyone know where I can register a website with a .cat TLD?

I have been looking to register a website with the TLD '.cat'. I know it was created for catalan websites, but I want to do a domain hack, like bit.ly (which appears to be English). But all the hosts I've looked at just allow you to register a site with generic TLDs, such as .com, .org, .info etcetera. I've been searching for a company which can host a .cat website for a while now and just can't find one, I also tried a whois (which I don't really understand) on .cat sites but that's not my area, so I was unsuccessful in locating the hosting company of other .cat sites. I've looked at similar questions, such as Where can I register .tw domain extensions? but no joy. I would really appreciate a link or pointer in the right direction. Thank you.


Ruby 1.9.3 segmentation fault on rackspace

I'm having a similar problem as "ruby 1.9 segmentation fault on exit." I followed the solution and updated `libselinux` with yum and have the following version installed:               Package libselinux-2.0.96-6.fc14.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version      I am running a RackSpace machine, kernel version: 2.6.35.4-rscloud. My C backtrace is:               -- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x18910a) [0x7f3cdb6c010a] vm_dump.c:796     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x5eb04) [0x7f3cdb595b04] error.c:258     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_bug+0xb8) [0x7f3cdb5969d8] error.c:277     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x119865) [0x7f3cdb650865] signal.c:609     /lib64/libpthread.so.0() [0x328540eeb0]     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x179272) [0x7f3cdb6b0272] ./include/ruby/ruby.h:1306     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0xab821) [0x7f3cdb5e2821] numeric.c:3204     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_ary_each+0x54) [0x7f3cdb5622e4] array.c:1478     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_iseq_eval+0x1f0) [0x7f3cdb6bbae0] vm.c:1447     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x67bfd) [0x7f3cdb59ebfd] load.c:310     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_require_safe+0x6ef) [0x7f3cdb5a02df] load.c:619     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_ary_each+0x54) [0x7f3cdb5622e4] array.c:1478     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_iseq_eval_main+0xaf) [0x7f3cdb6bbbdf] vm.c:1461     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x6471a) [0x7f3cdb59b71a] eval.c:204     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(ruby_exec_node+0x1d) [0x7f3cdb59c56d] eval.c:251     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(ruby_run_node+0x1e) [0x7f3cdb59e60e] eval.c:244     ruby() [0x4008eb]     /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3284c1ee5d]     ruby() [0x4007d9]


My google Page Rank is 1 but a very famous site has a PR of 4, is that rank correct?

Recently I just had a look at my Google Page Rank and it's 1 but another site which is much more famous than mine is on 4. I am confused with the rank: Are these ranks not affected by the websites popularity? I am really confused. Please help me out.


Proper syntax for .htaccess Rewrite

I'm very new at this so apologies if this is too easy, but would this be proper syntax for redirecting an entire site to a new domain? This is what was suggested so my other concern is blank lines, spaces, etc. Thanks               RewriteEngine On          # Redirect Entire Site to New Domain     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.org$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


SEO for naming images

I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search engines mainly pay attention to the file name or img alt (or title) and text around the image?


Shared SSL certificate

I sit and look at the SSL certificates and web host.   Direct what is the difference between a shared SSL certificate and other SSL certificates?   Technically speaking.


Looking to monitor and manage SEO for multiple web sites

Can anyone suggest a web site or service which will allow me to sign up all my client web sites to manage and monitor their SEO? I checked out DIYSEO.com that someone suggested. Any reviews on this site?


How to monitor outgoing server activity to detect malware?

I have a website that has previously been victim of malware. I restored the site from an old backup and have made every effort to lock down the server. I have no way to be absolutely certain that the backup I used is clean, and I'm worried that this malware may re-appear. I would like to use a tool to monitor outgoing port activity to detect signs of malware activity. Unfortunately I'm using a server host that does not give me shell access, so I need to use a tool that can be installed via FTP and used via the browser. My site is Joomla :( so a Joomla extension with this capability would work, but I haven't found that yet. Any suggestions. Many thanks


Which is better, minified or obfuscated code?

I’m confused between the two. Which is better, especially for jQuery and JS? Also, which do you think is more SEO-friendly? Note: _I’m a noob._


Two stage Apache rewrite not working

I had a list of "Redirect permanent path/to/url1 http--//domain2.com/path/to/url2" rules working as a test, but when I attempted to couple them with mod_rewrite rules to catch non-matching domain1 url paths to direct to http--//domain2.com it all fell apart. now neither the mod_rewrite rules nor the plain 301 redirects are working. **I've got:**   1. a virtualhosts setup for .../sites-availble/domain1 and another for domain2, pointing to different root directories in /var/www/    2. the .htaccess file in the redirect directory with the Redirect permanent rules   3. /etc/apache2/httpd.conf setup with the "AllowOverride FileInfo" rule for the redirect directory containing the .htaccess file However, for some reason, the traffic coming in as domain1 is triggering the CMS for domain2 to through an error because domain1 hasn't been set as an alias. But it shouldn't even see the domain1 traffic. Very confusing and frustrating. **Background and intended process flow:** I am moving content from one CMS to another and simultaneously changing both servers and domains. Many of the urls have been changed so much that I just created a long list of Redirect permanent path/to/url1 http--//domain2.com/path/to/url2 rules and stuck them in a least common denominator (/var/www/domainredirects/) .htaccess faile as is. This file is on the new server and the plan is to initially redirect traffic to the new server's IP from the old server (and later change the name server entries when I know what will happen with domain1) and have the apache virtualhost redirect incoming traffic for domain1 to root directory /var/www/domain1redirect/ From there it should hit the individual rules and then at the bottom catch everything else going to domain1 and forward it to domain2's root page. I have been trying to test this all by setting /etc/hosts to point domian1 to the IP for domain2's server, with the idea that I can get it all set and then just flip the switch on domain1's original server and the traffic will go through the same process path when it hits domain2's server.


Facebook Ads - after setting campaign it is not showing in ad manager

### Description: I bought new campaign in facebook ads service. The type of it is Website Conversions. I implemented pixel (registering) sucessfully, redeemed created list of ads and inserted new card data. In ads manager everything seems alright, pixel is set to active, billing settings are correct but when I click "Campaigns and adverts" I dont see my new campaign. Also I didn't get any e-mail notification so I have no idea is it working or not. ### Problem to solve Why I don't see newly created campaign? I suppose Facebook should at least inform me if everything is alright. Please tell me then, is that normal behaviour or something went wrong and I should redeem campaing once more.


Are penalties applied if you have too many 404 errors on your site?

Do the search engines take the number of 404 errors returned by a site into account when calculating the site rank? For example I have 8,000 404 errors and I am thinking that that's affecting my SEO in a negative way. However, I read this Google Webmaster Central article about 404 errors which suggests that they are not always a negative quality indicator. So I am confused...are high numbers of 404 errors harmful to a site or not?


Looks like fonts are absent

Hello I get 404 error when I try to reach my font file, Is this OK? I use Gtmetrix.com to find bugs on my site. One of the errors says: **The following requests are returning 404/410 responses. Either fix the broken links, or remove the references to the non-existent resources.** http://travel-georgia.co.il/wp-content/themes/triton- lite/fonts/lobster/Lobster_1.4-webfont.ttf http://travel-georgia.co.il/wp-content/themes/triton- lite/fonts/lobster/Lobster_1.4-webfont.woff When I checked the link it really does it, but when I looked inside of this "lobster" folder I saw that there were exactly these two files. I downloaded and uploaded new ones the same fonts (in case if the files are broken) , but still get this error.


How can I parse Amazon S3 log files?

What are the best options for parsing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage) log files? I've turned on logging and now I have log files that look like this:               858e709ba90996df37d6f5152650086acb6db14a67d9aaae7a0f3620fdefb88f files.example.com [08/Jul/2010:10:31:42 +0000] 68.114.21.105 65a011a29cdf8ec533ec3d1ccaae921c 13880FBC9839395C REST.GET.OBJECT example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/kitties_we_cant_stop_here_this_is_bat_country.jpg "GET /example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/kitties_we_cant_stop_here_this_is_bat_country.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 - 32957 32957 12 10 "http://atlanta.craigslist.org/forums/?act=Q&ID=163218891" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010031422 Firefox/3.0.19" -      What are the best options for automating the log files? I'm not using any other Amazon services other than S3.


Managing accounts on a private website for a real-life community

I'm looking at setting-up a walled-in (i.e. mostly private, with a small public-facing login page) website for a real-life community of people, and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with managing member accounts for this kind of thing. Some conditions that must be met:   * Each person is eligible for one account.   * This community has a set list of real-life member who all mostly know each other, or at least know _of_ each other.   * We know each of their names and have a lot of other fragmented data like phone numbers, addresses, etc.   * We don't expect or require that they all sign-up. It is purely opt-in, but we anticipate that many of them would be interested in the services we are setting up.   * Some of the community members emails are known, but some of them have fallen off the grid over the years, so ideally there would be a way for them to get back in touch with us through the public-facing side of the site. (And we'd want to manually verify the identity of anyone who does so).   * Their names are known, and for similar projects in the past we have assigned usernames derived from their real-life names. This time, however, we are open to other approaches, such as letting them specify their own username or getting rid of usernames entirely. The specific web technology we will use (e.g. Drupal, Joomla, etc) is not really our concern right now -- I am more interested in how this can be approached in the abstract. Our database already includes the full member roster, so we can email many of them generated links to a page where they can create an account. (And internally we can require that these accounts be paired with a known member). Should we have them specify their own usernames, or are we fine letting them use their registered email address to log-in? Are there any paradigms for walled-in community portals that help address security issues if, for example, one of their email accounts is compromised? We don't anticipate attempted break-ins being much of a threat, because nothing about this community is high-profile, but we do want to address security concerns. In addition, we want to make the sign-up process as painless for the members as possible, especially given the fact that we can't just make sign-ups open to anyone. I'm interested to hear your thoughts and suggestions! Thanks!


How to Syndicate Websites Without RSS?

I have four websites that I am wanting to link to from one website. But the kicker here is that beyond just linking to the sites I was looking for a way to display updates from those sites on my site. I know this is possible through RSS syndication, but is this possible without RSS? In other words as far as I can tell the four websites do not have an RSS feed. But I was still hoping to aggregate updates from those websites in one place. UPDATE: There are four websites that customers have to go to and manually check for updates. Rather than have my customers check each site manually by clicking on their links from my website I was hoping there was a way to build a widget or something that would display snippets of content from those four sites. My website would need to display the latest content from the other sites. Sort of like Google Reader can do with RSS feeds. But those 4 websites do not support RSS.


Multiple domains and product categories but one company?

My company is expanding online, and we are wondering the best way to go about our eCommerce strategy. We sell a wide range of products of a single material, lets use ceramics as an example. The current competition in our niche online is medium level. We currently have one site selling all our range: ceramicstuff.com However I have just found that ceramickitchenware.com, ceramicbowls.com, etc are currently unregistered, despite quite decent traffic search volume around those keywords monthly. What do you guys think about registering these domains to increase traffic? Would I put a standalone sites on those domains, or do I point them to my main domain? Or do I use them a "micro" sites to offer information, and then link to buy at my main domain, etc? **Summary: I'm looking to employ "spammy" type SEO tricks, multiple domains, etc but the key point is I will be generating REAL content, and offering a REAL QUALITY product. How to proceed?** Thanks!


Resubmitting Google AdSense Application

I submitted an AdSense application, but I was disapproved. I have read over email I was sent, which tell me to visit `http://www.google.com/adsense` to resubmit my application. When I visit `http://www.google.com/adsense` I am redirected to `https://www.google.com/adsense/disapproved` where I cannot do anything. Clicking the _Return to AdSense home_ link redirects me back to the same page. ![Screenshot of www.google.com/adsense/disapproved](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ziJBW.jpg) How can I resubmit my application?


Photos being copied all over the place

We have a rather popular website with plenty of photos. Our whole business depends on our content - and the photos are important in this. We invest a lot of time, effort, and money into taking these pictures. On our website we have clear copyright notices, we have the website name and logo in the photos, and we have a Photo Licensing page which states the prices of licensing our photos. Despite all this, our photos are copied by personal and commercial websites alike. We really want to do something about this. We do not want them to take out the photos and leave it at that. We want them to pay for the usage, as we clearly state on our website. Now a few questions come to mind:   * Can we legally force them to pay right away? Or are we obligated to first write a "Cease and Desist" letter?   * Photos are used on websites throughout the world. Are there any worldwide rules for this?    * Has anybody experience with doing these things outside of their home country? Should we hire a lawyer in any country? Or could a local lawyer contact oversees companies directly?


What is the strategy for Google AdSense to open ads link?

People were talking about Google AdSense force the visitor to open the ad window in the same page. But I found that my ads are mostly open in new page. But still some are opened in the same page. What is the detailed rule about this? Any tips?


Is it bad for SEO to have a site with no click navigation?

I have a site where users can only get to most of the sites content through search. If I make a sitemap that has the URLs for all of the potential searches is it ok that these pages cannot be click navigated to?


Buying expired domains - what to look for?

I want to purchase a few expired domains, who have some backlinks, but some of those sites have PR of -1 with backlinks which are pretty bad. But what exactly do I need to look for when looking for an expired domain (and I don't want to pay up the nose for a PR3+ domain).


Can I show abbreviation but have full text in the HTML?

In several places I am using linked abbreviations for a set of words, and Google is picking these abbreviated terms as sitelinks. Problem is, the abbreviation only makes sense in context, not when viewing the Google site links. Each link has a title with the full text. Is there a way to only show the first 3 letters but keeping the entire string in the HTML? Setting a short width doesn't work well.


I've renewed my SSL certificate... do I need to "do" anything more?

I've had an SSL certificate for a site for 2 years (from GoDaddy), and it was about to expire in a few weeks. I renewed with GoDaddy for another 2 years. Do I need to update anything manually on the server, or does renewing through the SSL provider take care of everything?


GoDaddy URL forwarding while keeping relative path

I'm hosting my website on Google App Engine and my domain name on GoDaddy. Google App Engine does not allow you to have naked URLs. So it doesn't allow you to have `example.com` but does allow you to have `www.example.com`. I can easily enable forwarding in GoDaddy to forward `exmample.com` to `www.example.com` however it does not keep the relative URL path. For example I would like for `example.com/images/3.jpg` to be forwarded to `www.example.com/images/3.jpg` and not just `www.example.com`.


Is there a YouTube <iframe> embed for the latest video on a channel?

(Not sure if this is the right spot, feel free to direct me to the right area if it isn't.) I'm needing to embed the latest video for the website that I'm working on's YouTube channel, and I'd prefer to be able to do it using the new iframe embed YouTube added a while ago. Thing is, I'm not sure how to do it, since I can't find anything on YouTube's website. I don't need that channel embed thing, just the latest video on the channel.


Is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website?

If you have a web application with lots of records, is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website? Instead of writing a search function and dealing with performance issue, you 'outsource' the search feature to Google.


Google AdSense denied my site based on their policy on alcohol, but it doesn't sell alcohol

I am building a website that advertises drink specials in my city of Rochester, NY. I just have a very basic website template up now. I was hoping to add Google AdSense advertisements, but I was just denied for having content related to drugs and drug paraphernalia. When I read the official policy, Google stated that it was acceptable to have:   * Sites that sell wine and champagne    * Sites that sell equipment or provide information on how to distill or brew beer    * Directories of pub locations but it was unacceptable to have   * sites that primarily sell alcohol (beer, hard alcohol, or liqueurs) directly from their site. My website does not sell alcohol, and I believe it is much more like a directory of pub locations. Does anyone have advice on how to get advertisements on the site, or is it a lost cause?


What does ADV in the email title stand for

I'm using MailChimp, and I sent out a test newsletter to myself, and the title had ADV: added to the beginning of my title. I'm not sure if MailChimp did that on its own, or if it was outlook exchange. But I have seen other emails that have ADV: at the start of the title What does it mean? and is there a way to stop MailChimp from adding it?


Best practice for bulk eCommerce product upload?

I'm thinking about opening a large online store for Jewelry, the one thing that really bothers me is managing the actual operation of taking pictures, uploading and describing all the products. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it, in terms of performance or the least time consuming. Just a few things to keep in mind   1. I'll have over 1,000 items in the online store   2. I'll have 3-4 pictures for each item, I'm using a DSLR camera if it makes any difference.   3. I'm going to probably use Magento, unless you have better experience with another eCommerce platform that will help me get this done quickly.   4. I'll need to randomly(?) create a product code for each item.


SEO on my website

I have a website that I made for a friend who runs his own business. I designed and built the website for him and then hosted it on MY hosting package and URL - Lets call this URL 1. He was happy with everything so he then bought hosting and I gave him all the files and he put them on his hosting package and URL - lets call this URL 2. Now, I added a few keywords and meta data to the head tags of his pages and when it was on URL 1, I got quite a few friends to test the site (giving the site hits). Now I have transferred the site to URL 2, when ever any one googles it, it will display URL 1 - even though URL 1 does not have any of the content for the site on it anymore. What do I do to get google to display URL 2, not URL 1?! Any help would be appreciated, the meta data I added is as follows:                <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />      <meta http-equiv="language" content="English">      <meta name="author" content="Jon Kyte">      <meta name="description" content="Tom Frost is a personal trainer, competitive natural body builder and nutritionist operating out of Leeds city centre">      <meta name="keywords" content="Tom Frost, Leeds, personal trainer, personal training, qualified fitness instructor, freelance personal trainer, training, natural body building, nutrition">      If anything I have described is unclear, please let me know and I will try my best to explain, but this is really important as he needs his customers to find him on google! Thanks in advance Jon


Force www to always show in address bar?

I have created a website for a client (my first freelance job!) and my client is generally happy, however they want the address bar to always show the **www.** portion, even if it isn't typed. Is this possible? I have purchased the domain through 123-reg and am hosting the website on Azure (as an Azure Website). I am guessing I need to add an A record to the DNS settings, would this be correct? Or is it a setting I need to change on Azure? Or something on the web.config file? The site has been created with ASP.Net MVC4. Thanks


Does an increase in bandwidth usage and a down server indicate a DDoS attack?

I have a dedicated server and it went down hours ago. Just wondering if this happened because of a DDoS attack. I got the bandwidth graph from my hosting provider, it clearly shows huge traffic before server stopped responding. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5GdR2.png)


Why do tools estimate my AdSense earnings to be much greater than actuallity?

I use Google AdSense at a site with about 15000 page views monthly. If I use some tools the check my website's values then it says that it has a certain value and that I should be able to earn much more than I'm actually doing (I use solely google AdSense). What could be the reason for my low AdSense earnings compared to the estimates of the tools, when the tools estimate a much higher profit from advertising than I actually make? My web health score in AdSense is 5/5 and my income optimization in AdSense is 4/5, but is it AdSense itself that is suboptimal and I've missed some good source that the tools assume I could or should use, or is my SEO that is sub- par, or is it simply the tools that are not making a decent valuation? I certainly would like to do as well as the tools say, but the tools report something similar to me record and peak in AdSense for a single day and not close to my average. For instance, one tools says that with my URL as input, the tool reports that the site `could`make 100 USD daily and that estimate is much more than daily AdSense average. So maybe I'm missing something or the tools are just overvaluing the website?


Could too many backlinks from subdomains result in a search engine penalty?

My website `http://compare.buyhatke.com` got hit by the recent algorithmic updates. What I could find out as of now is that I have 3-4 services hosted on different subdomains and we keep a constant navigation bar at the top for all our subdomains so that a user can switch easily between services. Now the problem is the services are not completely related to each other and due to lots of pages on our websites. The count of backlinks as shown in Google Webmaster Tools has also increased to 109,857,360 which is very large. So can the backlinks be the culprit given that they belong to different subdomains, and Google might consider them as spammy links, while in reality they are just to simplify navigation, and to keep displaying the top products from each service in the navigation bar? > ![screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WB0by.png) Should I remove the backlinks by using Disavow tool? Should I use a _nofollow_ tag in all the URLs of my navigation? What would be the best way to clean up this?


free Ad serving solution for smaller php websites

I'm looking for a very simple ad serving solution on my website, that can be hosted on my website. I have used openX and found it a bit complex for my needs. basically I need;   1. A way for advertisers to simply post their ad and pay using common payment methods visa/paypal etc   2. An interface for advertisers to track campaigns. I used traffic spaces one and liked the idea, although i wanted to host the server myself. Performance issues.


What can a mac mini server do? Is it useful for starting up a home business?

The mac mini is a really appealing option to someone like me with little knowledge of servers. I am looking for a server that I can use for a small business, to: host websites, store company files and allow email for staff. Can a mac mini provide such services without a difficult setup and horrible maintenance? If so what would be an ideal spec for the server, if not is there anything cheep and better (more user friendly)?


Website doesn't default to HTTPS

I'm kinda new to this so bear with me. I just finished setting up SSL on my website. The problem is that if the user types `www.mydomain.com` into their browser, it doesn't connect securely with HTTPS. However, if I type `https://www.mydomain.com` then it works just fine, and continues to work on subsequent pages, so I know SSL is working. My question is: how would I set the website so that users connect using SSL by default? My first thought was to just redirect to the HTTPS version of the page, but that would mean I would have to put a redirect on every page in case the user doesn't come in via the landing page.


GA UA codes for testing site - set up

Anyone know the process for using a GA live UA code to test a site in development. I.e. I have a live site with a GA UA code attached, tracking live traffic data etc e.g. UA-123456. I've been told that there is a way to produce another code associated to the primary code to use on the testing version of my live site e.g. test code could be UA-123457. Can anyone shed some light on this? If not possible should I just set up a completely separate GA account for my testing site?


HTML files downloading rather than executing

Trying to get a client's site up. The HTML files keep downloading rather than executing. I've done a MIME check and the files appear to be text/html. I recreated the database admin, password and made sure that there was a connection between the script and the MySQL database. Permissions seem to be fine and the `index.html` is executable, permissions 755. Not sure where to turn next.


Blogger homepage won't update!

I am new on blogging webmaster tools. Usually, when I add new post to my blog, it will automatic update my homepage also. But from January 14th, my homepage doesn't update in the Google SERPs. As a result, I am losing my popularity in the SERPs. Previously when I posted new articles, 70-80% will go to the first page result. But after the problem occurs, none of them reach the top 15 pages of Google SERPs. :( Last 1/12/12, Google webmaster sent me a "Notice of DMCA removal from Google Search" massage indicating one of my URLs contained some infringing content which I deleted after receiving their notice. Not only that, I also cheeked all of my posts if there any additional infringing content available. After removing that, I filled out Google's content removed notification form to notify them. Google sent me a feedback that they received it and suggest "In the future, if you have removed the allegedly infringing content from your site (and won’t put it back), please use the correct form" which also I filled in. Now my question is:   1. Did I do all this right?    2. Although my new posts are indexed in Google with "..", why won't update my homepage which previously automatically updated when a new article was published?


Wordpress or not?

What is / are the practical differences between creating a Wordpress based website and a normal html5 based site - from a siteowners perspective? I know a wee bit of html and css and would like to make a website for myself (promoting my freelance services), using either a Wordpress theme or a plain HTML5+CSS3 site template. But I have little or no idea about Wordpress. So, I am unable to decide. My worry is that, if I use a Wordpress theme - I may have to upgrade or change it continually to keep up with the upgrades of main Wordpress itself. Is this correct? I want to create my site once and then leave it as it is, not worrying about or touching it for a few years - let's say 5 or more! My question is, is this possible? Will my site / pages / theme become obsolete, unusable, broken, error-prone, dysfunctional or under-performing - due to updates / upgrades of Wordpress itself during this period? This is not clear to me.


How can I find a list of backlinks by date for a domain?

I have successfully switched my Site A over to Site B (a legacy domain i purchased). I recently have uncovered some shady link building practices in the Site B link profile. I am trying to find all historical backlinks to Site B pre-domain change so that i can disavow them and only keep the legitimate authoritative links from my original domain (Site A). With limited cooperation from the previous site owners of Site B, any thoughts as to how i should proceed in finding the spam links from before the domain change?


Creating a new site for media content that exists on another site

So I've looked around on this site, and read up on Google's duplicate content policy, etc., but haven't found an answer specific to my problem. This is going to be a bit long, but I think it's an interesting question (hopefully), so bear with me. I run a community website for people interested in digital scrapbooking (http://www.pixelscrapper.com). The site includes a forum, a community gallery, and a large and growing collection of downloadable images for people to use in their digital scrapbooking projects (digital papers, embellishments, illustrations, etc.). Over the course of the last year it has become clear that the site presents value to people outside of the digital scrapbooking community. Specifically, we've gotten a wide range of people creating accounts on the site in order to download images from our high-quality collection: these people include web designers, mixed-media artists, illustrators, teachers, etc. **As we've seen this wider interest emerge, we've become interested in the possibility of creating a new website that would be based entirely around image downloading, and targeted not at digital scrapbookers, but at anyone interested in commercial use images.** The new site would be substantially different from our current digital scrapbooking website, but the actual catalog of downloadable images would initially be identical, or almost identical. This creates concern, obviously, from the standpoint of content duplication. **The intent here is not to dupe Google, or anyone else, but to reach a substantially different market with an existing catalog of downloadable images. So the question is: how best to achieve this goal?** Here are some possibilities that I've thought of: **1. Simply change the existing site to cater more to non-scrapbookers** We've thought about simply changing our existing site to make it more friendly to non-scrapbooking users, but haven't found a good way of being able to do that while also keeping the current emphasis on digital scrapbooking for the users who are currently there for that purpose. It seems impossible to have a site that is at once a niche site for digital scrapbookers, and also a broad mass-market site for anyone interested in commercial-use images. The whole way we want to present everything to the two different groups is very different. When someone finds a new use for a prescription medication (and they get it passed through the FDA), they don't take an old bottle that says “for allergies” and add on a footnote that says “p.s. this works well as a sleep aid too!”--rather, they create a new bottle for the new target group that says, “for better sleep.” **2. Create a new site with the duplicate downloads, while being careful not to duplicate text** So one idea is simply to go ahead with a new site at a new domain, which would feature all new organization, structure, design, etc. It wouldn't be about scrapbooking, it wouldn't have the forums, or gallery, etc. etc. The images would be identical, but we could take care to name them slightly differently; a large number of the tags would probably still have to be identical, though (see here for a typical image presentation). Seems like a recipe for duplicate content disaster if/when Google sees this as a simple dupe. Not sure how Google feels about duplicate images, as opposed to other types of content, but the duplicate tags seem like they would be enough to set things off. **3. Create the dedicated image-downloading site, and have the scrapbooking site “link in” to that site somehow.** We could do something where we remove the downloading section of the digital scrapbooking site and have that section simply link to the dedicated downloading site, with some kind of cross-domain user validation or something, but that defeats the purpose, once again, of reaching two separate audiences: on the scrapbooking website we want the download pages to fit the theme and feel of the scrapbooking site, and we want to present the downloads differently. We don't want people to feel like they're being shoved over to a different site to complete downloads. **4. Create the dedicated image-downloading site, and use canonical tags on the scrapbooking site to indicate the downloading site as canonical.** As far as I can tell this is the best solution that I've thought of, though I'm not sure what all the implications would/will be. In most cases canonical content is obviously the content that comes first, but in this case we would probably want the dedicated downloading site to be listed as canonical, because the image downloads are going to be the only thing on that site, and if those pages aren't being indexed by Google, we've got no traffic there. I'm assuming the digital scrapbooking site would suffer from lost hits, but at least that site has other content being generated for it (forum posts, gallery images, etc.) What happens, though, when content that has been around for a long time suddenly links to another (new) site as being canonical? Does Google get thrown off by this? Do they see it as malicious in some way? I'm scared of what might happen (i.e. how will search traffic carry over?) **5. Something I haven't thought of yet?** So maybe I've missed a better solution, or missed something about any of the solutions I've proposed. I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who has good SEO experience/knowledge. It seems reasonable to want to reach two distinct markets with a similar/identical product, targeted for each, but the question is, how to go about it? For any of the solutions I've proposed, I'm scared of what the unintended consequences might be.


Image SEO - always repeat main keyword in alt text?

I'm working on an Easter Island website and I'm currently redesigning my image system. Virtually all my photos are of Easter Island. My question is, should I always include the keywords "Easter Island" for Google to easier understand that my photos are from Easter Island, or is it sufficient that the "Easter Island" keywords are in the domain, as well as in all other pages of the site? For example, Alt text 1: "Moai statues at volcano Rano Raraku at Easter Island (Rapa Nui)" or Alt text 2: "Moai statues at volcano Rano Raraku" Would example 1 be considered keyword stuffing by Google


Can I redirect a root site under IIS to a subdirectory, without affecting other applications?

I'm running IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008R2. I currently run a site at the root of `mydomain.edu`. I also have a variety of applications (e.g., `mydomain.edu/calendar`, `mydomain.edu/research`, `mydomain.edu/otherapp`) running on the server. I would like to move the root site to a subdirectory (i.e., `mydomain.edu/sub`) to logically separate the root site's content from the other applications, but have traffic from `mydomain.edu` point to `mydomain.edu/sub`. Is this feasible without displaying 'sub' in the path? For example, all pages should continue to display `mydomain.edu/regularpage.htm` or `mydomain.edu/directory/page.htm` NOT `mydomain.edu/sub/regularpage.htm` or `mydomain.edu/sub/directory/page.htm`). Can exclusions be added so as not to affect the other applications? I don't know if this is a fairly standard request and I am over-thinking this, or if this is a terrible idea that I absolutely should not consider.


Using subdomains or directories for main categories?

I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries. Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:               http://awespot.org/country/105/iceland      I am wondering if it would be better, in terms of SEO, to have the countries separated in subdomains:               http://iceland.awespot.org/      ~~I know subdomains are considered by Google as different websites~~ (see the comments), so I am considering the 2 options:   * separating would mean also separating the pagerank and benefits of links to the website   * but separating would enable me to create a "web" or related websites (all related to travel and all) that link and benefit to each other I am only asking about **SEO** here, I know there are other questions raised by this possibility (user experience, administration... even password completion by web browsers)


Are links from all pages in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B considered black-hat?

I own two sites which hold different content that is targeted to different target markets. When Site B launched, I added links in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B. Each page on Site A has a link in the footer to some random page on Site B. Is this considered black hat? Can I get penalized for this? This was about a year and a half ago, would you recommend removing these now?


How does Google Plus select an image from a shared link?

If you share a link on Google Plus it will often grab a fews images you can attach when you post the image. Facebook has a similar feature. You can tell Facebook which is the primary image for a page with a simple LINK tag. However, this isn't working for G+. How do you tell G+ what the primary image for a page is?


Legal Music Videos to my website

I want to upload a music video to my webiste. For ex. Eminem - Not Afraid. No matter where I found source but I don't want to embed it from YouTube. Is it legal to upload such a video? If not what should I do to make it legal? How can I get permission? What if I provide info like: Who own it, The author etc. ? What is the punishment for this. I live in EU, (Amsterdam). Thanks :)


Newsletter Signup and VCF Files

Recently I signed up for a newsletter and when the confirmation came in my e-mail I noticed it had this in the bottom corner: ![Photo](http://i.stack.imgur.com/o34ux.jpg) (I have wiped out the website name.) After looking into it I realized that this appeared to be a VCF file that was attached to the e-mail and this is the way Thunderbird presented the file to me. My question is this: When a person signs up for a newsletter from my site is it a good practice to include a VCF file (as an attachment) in the confirmation e-mail so they can easily add my e-mail address and information to their address book?


Rolling Updates in a Webserver Farm?

Big websites (Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo etc.) don't schedule downtime for upgrades. Usually they are done "live" and rolled progressively through the server farm. They also have big infrastructure and teams to manage this. Smaller websites usually take the entire site offline to update the database structure and upgrade the code running on the web servers. The downtime can be very minimal but its still an interruption to customers. How did you make the jump to no-downtime rolling updates? What are the minimum requirements to get this done? What can we do to build applications that make this possible from the start?


Does having a ccTLD mean your domains is less likely to show up in other countries?

The .com is unavailable, so I'm considering purchasing the ccTLD for my new company. That said, at some point I'll probably wish to sell the product internationally (even if just online), so I'm wondering what, if any, effect the ccTLD would have on my website's rankings in other countries' search engines?


Does the Instant Preview in Google webmaster tools takes Robot.txt in account?

Is that the way to go If I want to visually see what the googlebot see? I'm trying to check a folder which I have just blocked in my robots.txt.   * If I fetch the folder as google bot, It fetches ok, so that doesn't tell me nothing about whether the block is working   * I know there's a tool to check for blocking, but it is dependent on the input of the robots.txt  Therefore I've tried the Instant preview, and I don't get a preview for what the bot sees ("pre-render), so I think that means that it's because the robots.txt blocks it; however - I don't see the bot tried beforehand to access my updated robots.txt, so I'm not sure how does it know that this folder is blocked? (it does preview another new folder, that is not blocked)


Two different websites in one remote hosting

My client asked me that a website that is hosted in one server (and pointing there through a domain) should also be accessed (into a specific directory) from another domain, which is not pointing there. For example: http://www.foo.com, hosted at GoDaddy, with the full website http://www.bar.com, hosted at Bluehost, needs to access http://www.foo.com/bar, as if it was the http://www.bar.com's root. So, if anybody enters through http://www.bar.com, it should internally load http://www.foo.com/bar, without visually changing the url. I amb not sure if this is possible using .htaccess or anything like this. Could anybody show me some light? Thanks in advance


Old website hurting new website's SEO?

I did work for a client many years ago now which was to create a database driven version of their original website. Now I'm no SEO expert, I merely provided the features to let them update all the necessary parts of the page to help change rankings. However the client did not want to de-commission their old site, they instead wanted them to run alongside each other on a slightly different domain but selling mostly the same products (although one is much more up to date than the other). The old website is http://www.thefineartcompany.co.uk and the new one is http://www.fineartcompany.co.uk. After trying many things with various SEO companies my client still cannot get the new site to rank highly and is even having a hard time getting the homepage recognized by Google properly. I have a feeling it is because the two URLs are very similar and they are selling the same content under the same name so Google does not think nicely of the new site. So my question is:   1. Does Google do this?   2. and if so is there anyway of proving this to the client? The reason I ask is because I'm sure my client would be worried about de-commisioning a higher ranking website over a lower ranking site. Thanks


Google Chrome @font-face problem

I have problem with pages that have @font-face with Chrome, for example if I go to page http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/SAC/, then my computer freezes and I cannot do anything for a while. And this happends just with pages that have @font-face CSS property. So if I want to use @font-face on my own pages, is it possible to avoid this Chrome issue somehow?


ASP to HTML - 301 redirects (SEO rankings before and after)

I need to change the extension of the default pages and many other pages like `.asp` to `.html`, should I use a 301 redirect? The website is in the top 10 results for many keywords, I don't want to lose any ranking or PageRank. Will the redirection and renaming of the extensions hurt the site's rankings. If so, by how much percent?


Noone else can access my website

i recently changed my website to use Word Press and it was working fine before, i was getting traffic and stuff like that, but since i recently switched, it seems my site is not accessible by others. I can access it locally (Hosted at home) but i tried getting a rating on nibbler, and that failed, then tried downforeveryone and that failed aswell. I don't understand what has happened, i simply switched to Word Press while i design a new website, and it just won't work anymore. I am running my server off a Raspberry Pi if that helps. Website: http://miworldmc.tk


Is it possible to track redirects to external sites from our subdomains?

I have a handful of subdomains set up as redirects because we are using them for QR codes. I want to be able to track the QR code redirects (which are already set up and printed so no changing them at this point) and see the effectiveness of each. Here's two examples: http://qr.glorkianwarrior.com and http://ad.glorkianwarrior.com are set up to forward to our iTunes page (later on this year it may forward to Google Play or a specific landing page), is there any way on my server to track the redirect from the subdomain to iTunes and see where traffic is coming from first? I have the redirects set up through cPanel presently using subdomains. Edit: From the research I've seen I can't track a 301 directly. If I redirect to an internal page and then do a timed redirect to the iTunes link, how long will it take for the tracking script to track a hit?


why isn't mozilla rendering my custom fonts

I working on a website - goodmorninghomes.com The site looks perfect in all browsers including internet explorer but not in mozilla and the problem is the different fonts. I have included some custom fonts through @font-face CSS property and they are working properly in all browsers but not in firefox. The firefox console doesnt even show any problem. I just cant understand why this is happening.


SEO - Redirect on first page (site.com -> site.com/en)

I have website with multiple languages and at first entrance it checks for cookie and if no cookie is present then it _defaults_ to English language and redirects to `site.com/en`. So basically every time someone enters `site.com` he will be redirected to `site.com/{language}`. Is this bad for SEO?


Why would \x escaped URLs appear in my WAMP server logs?

I have set up a local WAMP on my server which is accessible over the internet. What is this strange traffic? ![screenshot of \\x requests](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dOtyg.png) Normal request traffic would look like this: `/directiory/index.php`, but those requests are escape characters? Who would access my server like this?


Google: always I am the first result on second page

I am searching on Google my published articles but I don't understand why I am always the first result on the second page? (My site is also, on Google news and it appears as news on first page, but the article is first, on the second page).


Is there a way to get Google keywords?

Is there any way at all to get Google keywords entered? For example, if I forced Google to index my site with only HTTPS, would I then get the keywords entered by the visitor when they arrive at my site?


Is it worth looking into a webserver other than apache?

I've traditionally deployed my sites under apache, simply by default. I've heard things about NGinX though and I'm wondering under which conditions it would be superior. In addition to apache and Nginx, what the other options are for webservers and what are their benefits?


Build My Own Advertising Network

I have a few ideas that I think would be pretty game changing for online advertising and I would like to build my own network but I don't know where to start. I know it will take a lot of time for major publishers to get on board but I am more curious about the technical side. What language/database model and framework are modern ad networks built on? Basically I want to build an advertising network that registers views per page and allows publishers to manage the look of their own ads and let's the users interact with the ads. Is there any good information on doing something like this or any framework you can suggest to build on? I know this would get complicated pretty fast so if you have suggestions for ad networks that let you customize them heavily I would be glad to hear your suggestions.


Why do different tools report different rankings for the same page?

I am in a new job following an internship and I have been given the position of SEO Analyst. I have zero experience with SEO before this, I have some development experience which hopefully will stand to me but right now things feel very dicey. I am reading everything I can get my hands on but I was kinda stumped today and I was hoping someone here could perhaps clear or confirm my insanity. I was asked to do a quick check on the keyword ranking for a customer, sounds simple enough but it has taken me the best part of 4 hours (half of that researching what keyword ranking tools are available/any good). I checked the keyword rankings using Rank Checker then SEO Power Suite and then manually searching and counting. The problem is I got three different results from each tool so now I'm confused. I know local searches have an effect and I can accept thats why Rank Checker was so so far off as it was searching on `google.com` rather than my national TLD. Taking this into account SEO PowerSuite and a manual check should have been the same (as I manually set SEO PowerSuite to search on my TLD and my browser redirects to the TLD for Google). I am utterly baffled as to how the hell an allegedly abstract neutral metric can change from tool to tool? If Google ranks a domain result on the SERP at three it should stay at three no matter what tool I use to search for it - no? Or am I just insane to expect consistency when it comes to all things Google and SEO?


Is there a way to see granular per-visit data in Google Analytics?

I've started using Google Analytics very recently and I'm a bit lost with the sea of options (have been using Sitemeter before for some time). I've clicked through the service a lot but couldn't find what I'm accustomed to. I can see multitude of **aggregated** statistics in GA like:   * charts of browser share   * lists of country share   * lists of most visited URLs within the page and so on, but I would actually like to analyze **each of the visits themselves**. Something like: >   1. User X, France, Chrome, 7 pageviews between 18:01 and 18:15, entered on > a.htm and exited on b.htm >   2. User Y, UK, Firefox, 1 pageview at 18:20, entered on c.htm > Is there an easy way to see the reports in this way (perhaps by clicking a link to a separate page to see that particular session's stats)? How to navigate there if so?


Impartial comparisons on cloud / shared-hosting speeds with different providers

Are there any impartial comparisons on speeds of cloud hosting or shared hosting from different providers? I've googled and found a few snippets of info, but not sure that they're impartial studies...


Schema.org or data-vocab.org which one is better to use? Im aware of the fact that data-vocab is considered to be outdated version of itemscope and the schema is the newly introduced itemscope . but since schema.org/person is not being read by google webmaster tools.hence should i shift to data vocab?


How do I redirect an English language URL to an Arabic language URL?

I have a link that's currently formatted like this:               http://site.com/news/view/1.html      I want to it redirect it to:               http://site.com/خبر/عنوان-الخبر      where `خبر` is equal to `news` and `عنوان-الخبر` is the title of the news page. I want do it using .htaccess, and provide a permanent 301 redirect for the old URLs. Do I need to edit the PHP source at all to accomplish this?


Dns hosting question

I'm new to dns hosting and I have recently setup google apps for the 'mail.' cname record. How can I use it to display files on the www URL? ie: 'www.' cname. Or is it not possible to upload files using dns hosting only? I also have hosting elsewhere and wanted to know if I could forward the www cname to a subdirectory on that server, but not displaying the subdirectory URL publicly, rather the address bar constantly remains as the dns hosted (original) domain? Thank you!


Google doesn't index a subdomain. What can be the problem and what can be done?

I have a domain, let's call it example.com, which has a subdomain, games.example.com. I maintain a games forum using phpbbseo which is located at games.example.com/forum. The problem is that the forum is not being crawled. I used Google's webmaster tools and tested that the page is seen by google. P.S. There is a link from games.example.com to games.example.com/forum. What can I do? How can I make google crawl my forum?


How can I make my web application faster in Australia when it is hosted in USA

I have www.localo.org hosted on a BlueHost server in USA but I am in Australia and it is INCREDIBLY SLOW! I uploaded it to a Crazy Domains server in Australia and it ran flawlessly. I don't want to have a separate server in every country, so what do I need to do to make it based in USA but run smoothly in distant countries?


Would a self-signed certificate impact my site for search engines? By that I mean, do robots refuse to index sites with self-signed certificates?


Is there a way to block the use of Google's SideWiki?

Google created a tool that can be really great for some people, but it can also be a huge problem for others. I'm talking about the (in)famous SideWiki. I'm trying to find a way to block the use of SideWiki on a Web page. I know it can't be used on https, I know there's a javascript available on the web to block the google toolbar. But I'm looking for a clean solution that will not block any users from accessing the Web site, but will only disable the SideWiki. I didn't find anything in Google's documentation so I'm turning to you guys. Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks!


Implementing an aggregator and integrating it with WordPress

_Since this is quite a conceptual question which might involve a bit of discussion, I've made it a community wiki_ I'm working on a site that will work as a fairly simple aggregator of content from various sources including several Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook accounts. Updates will occur on a periodic basis, at which point feed data will be fetched and updated in a local store. A single page on the site will display the latest set of content; other static pages will be updated occasionally. I'm building the site on top of WordPress to facilitate easy management for a non-technical editor. My initial prototype stored details of each feed item's content (e.g. title, link, description, image) in a custom built database. However, since beginning the WordPress side of things, I'm wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to use the existing WordPress database for this purpose - i.e. store each feed item as a WordPress post (in wp_posts) and additional data in wp_postmeta. The category/tag model could be used to differentiate Twitter items from Flickr ones, etc. This would give the advantage of using just a single database, and also making all WordPress functions available for the management of individual post items. Does anyone have an opinion on this, particularly any 'gotchas' or possible pitfalls that may arise from such an approach?


Flash referrer passing/blocking

I have noticed that in firefox when playing a mp4/flv file via a swf player, A referrer is not sent from the swf player. However if we switch over to chrome, a referrer is sent. With this being said, is there a way in flash (via markup or internal programming) to decide if we want to pass or not pass the referrer?


Can I hide <h1> tag? Will it hurt SEO?

My pages look better without a heading title. So I don't really want to use a heading, but I don't want to leave `<h1>` out. Is hiding the element an option? Will it hurt SEO?


Domain Name mapping question

I'm developing a desktop application which communicates with a custom webservice which is currently being tested using the default domain name provided by our hosting plan , eg `http://mysite-001-siteXYZ.somehostingcompany.net/` Once everything is working and ready to launch we will map the domain name of the bought domain address, eg `http://RealNameofWebsite.com/` This is a newbie question really, will both url's work once the domain name is mapped? Also, am I correct in assuming using `http://RealNameofWebsite.com/` is preferable in the application as it will follow whichever hosting company is mapped?


Directory structure and script arguments

I'll often see a URL that looks something like this:               site.com/articles/may/05/02/2011/article-name.php      Surely all of those subdirectories don't actually exist? It seems like it would be a huge redundancy, even if it was only an identical index file in every directory. To change anything you'd have to change every single one. I guess my question is, is there some more elegant way that sites usually accomplish this?


Good free CSS Sprite for icons

I am working on a small project where I need some of the basic icons: edit, favorite, delete. You know them. Now i can download them all seperate, and put them together in a sprite, but I was wondering if there are ready to download sprites which I can use. Now I am working on an accounting app, so it would be nice if the icons were not too childish. A little but of fancy business type icons. Thanks


Google +1 something via a URL

Is there a way to +1 something via a URL, just like you would with Twitter or Facebook? * * * e.g. With Twitter you have:               http://twitter.com/home?status={url}      With Facebook you have:               http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={url}&t={title}      With Digg you have:               http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={url}&title={title}


changing <b> tag style to font-weight normal

I am highlighting key words on my web pages using the `<b>` tag. I have set all `<b>` tags to `font-weight: normal` in my global stylesheet and was wondering if this would be considered a 'black hat' technique by search engines? My colleague seems to think so but i'm not too sure as it's just styling. Does anyone know or have an opinion?


Forbid content in google results summary

I put a professional directory project online since few weeks, Google has started to index some pages but i just noticed a flaw in the design of the pages. Each page have an adress, some content and a dynamic phone number and because the dynamic phone number (the number change every hour) is on the top of the page, Google display an incorrect phone number in the summary of the page in it's results. So my question is: it is posible to forbid google to display this information or should i have to put some extra content before the number to overide it?


Track social activity for any subdomain

We are working on a web application thats actually a network of subdomains. Each user own a subdomain for its own profile. We are looking for a way to track social activity, shares and likes for all network under one profile. We tried using addthis but they don't support a feature like this.


MSSQL manager like phpMyAdmin

I have a .net hosting account but they have provided a free asp.net enterprise manager, a software to manage MSSQL server. Is there any other Phpmyadmin like software. My server supports Php also.


Hosting server application for global SME

We are planning to set up a complete ERP and CRM system for a medium-sized global company, that might turn into a essential tool for all locations once deployed. For now these locations include USA, Germany, China and Indonesia, but the list is growing quickly. My question is, where it is best to physically locate the server to ensure the access times are optimal from all (future) locations? On my mind, I am dealing with multiple connected servers (a cloud?), where each of our users is served by the physically closest server. Being in a very competitive field we would also like to rule out, that any data is stored in mainland China... Thanks for any advice and pointers!


Specifying crawlers to not crawl Links which are dependent on external API's

I have links on my site which lead to internal pages that depend on first bringing data from an external API. This only takes time the first time they are pushed. Links to pages which exists in the DB, load a lot faster. I'm specify for search engines to only crawl the internal pages. This is what I thought of:   1. Creating a site map with the internal links   2. Adding this to every page on my site `<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW" />` Will this succeed? Does the site map over-ride the nofollow? Would you suggest a different direction? Thanks


RewriteRule working local but not on remote server

I have a .htaccess file with one simple RewriteRule:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ ?site=$1      I want to have an url like http://www.example.com/imprint and forward it to http://www.example.com/?site=imprint I checked this rule with an RewriteRule tester which gave me the results I want to achieve. On my local development system it works well too. But on a remote server the URLs just give me a 404 error. Other more simple rewrite rules are working with no problems, so everything must be set up correctly (I think..). The problem is that I don't have access to any error logs or the server configs. So the only thing I can do is to guess... Can anyone tell me if theres something wrong with this rule? Or anything else I can do or test to solve this? Or has someone an idea what could be wrong on the server?


How do I find the most popular search terms by browser?

How do I find the most popular search terms categorized by browser? I tried http://www.google.com/trends/explore, but it doesn't let you filter by browser.


Determining conversion rate if users land on specific pages

I'm trying to figure out the value of specific pages by finding out if they are more or less likely to convert if they hit certain pages. For example: I want to know if they are more likely to convert if they hit one of our case studies or if they go to our about page? Is there a way to do this in Google Analytics? Or do I need secondary software?


Real-time analytics always shows 100% new

Real-time Google Analytics used to show new vs. returning visitors by default but then they switched to Desktop vs. Mobile. I've now setup a custom dashboard based on #3 found here. However, this shows that 100% of my visitors are new. I never see a returning visitor in real-time. (If I go to Audience > Overview I can see that I do indeed have returning visitors but the stats are not in real-time). How do I correctly get the number of new vs. returning visitors in real-time?


Test different timezones

What is a simple way to temporarily change the timezone in Chrome so as to test how a site renders for different locations? On OSX Mountain Lion, I've tried as bash script with:               export TZ='Indian/Mauritius'          date     open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app ~/status.html      where status.html * contains               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">               <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">     <title>Time zone test</title>

                      The **date** command correctly returns Mauritius time, but the javascript renders the time as being my machine's time * apologies for posting the _whole_ file, but there might be relevant tags I haven't considered


Redesigned website, transferred content, and now invisible to Google

I recently completely redesigned my website, `http://concourstee.fr`. We used to have a fairly good ranking in Google, but when redesigning the website I thought I'd try to make things better. (WordPress Yoast plugin for SEO, better use of keywords, etc.) So I moved the old website to `http://concourstee.fr/old/` and uploaded the new version of the website. (Both versions are running WordPress) Since then, my website has just completely disappeared from Google, I have absolutely no idea why... I realized that Google only found the old website, under `concourstee.fr/old/` when doing a search for `site:concourstee.fr`, so I moved it downloaded a backup of the old website and deleted it. Google can still only find `concourstee.fr/old/`, about a week afterwards, and it still won't display the new website, even when searching for things as basic as "Concours Total EDHEC Entreprendre", which is the actual name of the site, and appears several times on the main page. I then realized I had an error in my code :               <meta name="robots" content="none" />     <meta name="googlebot" content="none" />      Which I fixed two days ago, changing `none` to `index,follow`, but I am still not appearing in Google... So what am I to do? We have a big event coming up and we really need our Google visibility back!


Is it a bad idea to allow mulitple ways to get a product on a site?

I am building a site where we will sell products etc. Currently the url to get to a product is like so "Store/Store_product_page/The product_ID" or "Store/Store_product_page/The product_title" I have been doing some SEO on the site and I am not sure if it matters if there is multiple ways to get to a product page. Should I have just one way or the other but not both ways to get to the same product page? Also does it matter much if I just made it so only this way worked "Store/Store_product_page/The product_ID"?


Where to host a .cur image?

`.cur` is an image extension for mouse cursors. I have purchased a custom domain via Blogger. Unlike WordPress, Blogger does not have any directory of webfiles or something where things can be uploaded. I need to change the default cursor of my mouse in my website. Unfortunately, Google's Picasa or Imageshack/Phobucket do not support `.cur` files. I found some other image sites while googling but all are old image hosting services which no longer exist. I tried Dropbox, Google code but they provide a link to download the `.cur` image and not actually give a URL which I can link in my CSS. Is there any way to host `.cur` images?


Is it possible that two or more URL's may have same Alexa traffic rank? I am developing a tools that depends on the Alexa rank, But there are some Urls with same alexa rank.


How is the new Hulu not penalized for SEO?

I heard if you serve different content with Javascript disabled, search Bots can penalize you. I have been looking at the source of the new Hulu website and wanted to ask a few questions. I was told to ask them here as opposed to StackOverflow. Your help will be much appreciated. I am building a Backbone application, and the site is very Javascript heavy as you can imagine. I did not code the site with progressive enhancement in mind. I thought if Hulu can successfully do this, I am sure it is feasible. With every page, Hulu has a content area (div id = "SEO") with links to its various videos. This SEO content area is removed with javascript. Obviously this will only be removed if Javascript is not disabled. If it is dsiabled, a no script tag is used covering the SEO content area asking the user to enable Javascript. So in essence, the Bot will still crawl the SEO content area. 99% of the content, from what I can see, is being served via JSON. Now the Bot obviously cannot read this content. However, all SEO Meta tags are served from the server with the content inside the SEO content area. Now my question is: is this enough? Can I have a content area with just "enough seo" (H1 paragraph etc) so the Bots can get an understanding of what the page contains, then have my application takeover? Will I get penalized for serving different content? I can have the page rendered on the server, but it does require much more work and I will then need to maintain both client and server side templates.


SEO and domain name - which shape?

I just want to register the domain name for my spanish class and wonder, what domain name is beter for this purpose:   * learningspanish.com or   * ilearnspanish.com Which one is better? The domain name must be English, but I don't know, what is better for Google and SEO - if **learn** or **learning**... I would be grateful for your feedback and sorry if the explanation above is not understandable (I would try to explain it better). Thank you


Google Analytics with transactions - quanity mismatch?

We've been using Google Analytics reporting for some time now and we tend to focus on **GA > Conversions > Ecommerce > Transactions** (on left hand menu) Columns:   * "Transaction" listing all orders with a transaction id e.g. SESS123_name    * "Revenue" listing €amount    * "Tax" listing €amount   * "Shipping" listing €amount and finally "Quantity" we show transaction numbers. Yesterday (and now today), we have noticed that the Quantity column numbers are doubling to what we see when we view a transaction in detail **e.g** Quantity = 4 then you click on the Transaction ID and it shows = 2


WordPress theme like this Drupal theme?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a WordPress theme that was similar to this websites theme (in Drupal): http://www.barefootrunners.org Thanks!


Why doesn't Firefox have a volume slider for the audio element?

Seems like most browsers have a slider to control the volume of audio files played via the `<audio>` tag, yet Firefox on Windows (and Linux) seems to only have an 'all on' or 'all off' volume control. Is it just me? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SZ64n.jpg) You can test on your own here (be careful audio are autostart)


Apache2's recursive directory permission requirement

The experience I've had thus far is from Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 64 bit OS so if there are other OS differences I'd like to know if this is an OS specific problem or not. The issue I've experienced is mostly confusion. Once the cause of the problem is identified and corrected there are no further related problems experienced. The symptom is Error 403 forbidden. Typically the cause is attempting to use a directory other than /var/www/ for content. The cause is simply permissions, but its puzzling why the required permissions must persist from at least one level deeper than root onward till the current working directory where the content is stored. For example:               Alias /example/ "/home/user/permissions/can/be/confusing/with/apache/"     <Directory /home/user/permissions/can/be/confusing/with/apache/>          Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews          AllowOverride None          Order allow,deny          Allow from all     </Directory>      With www-data being the user that spawned apache and "user" being a member of the www-data group. Thus, if ownership of /home/user/* is user:user then all that is necessary to display content with apache is permssions of read and execute. So d---r-x--- should suffice, but for practical purposes I'm using drwxr-x--- for most. However, if all directories /home/user/* are permissions of drwxr-x-- and /home/user/ itself has permissions of drwx------ then content will always fail with error 403. This is strange because it doesn't follow what I would consider traditional logic of permissions which should only be applicable to the current working directory or a particular file in that directory and not any directory further back in the chain. Is this by design or is it a bug?


How to convert Corel Draw design into HTML design?

I have a Corel Draw .cdr file which has a full design of a web page. Is there any way to convert that design into HTML template?


Hosting related inquery Asp.Net 4.0 application

We are building a public site Using asp.net 4.0 and SqlServer 2008 R2. We are assuming with a year our user count will be around 200,000. We need better a understanding; for hosting how much bandwidth per month we should consider. Also what about ram/cpu.


Google shows duplicate meta description in its index

Here's a search on Google for my site. Texts are different for each page of my site but snippets (meta description) are still the same for a Google search. Can you give me an advice to change it?


Looking for a sitemap generator

I am looking for a good way to generate a sitemap for my current site. I inherited a huge site at work and we are going to start the process of IA analysis and redesign. It would be awesome if there was some way to crawl the site and automatically generate a sitemap with all of our pages. Does anyone know of any good resources? Thanks,


online site map generator that has an access via URL

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Looking for a sitemap generator I am looking for a service that I can access daily based to generate a sitemap.xml file for SEO. Something like http://www.seo-sitemap-service.com?freq=daily&generate-for- url=http://www.mysite.com


Free unlimited-page sitemap generator?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Looking for a sitemap generator I have been using www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but their limit is 500 pages. My site has grown beyond that and I am wondering whether there is another tool I can use that I can use to create sitemaps.


How do I make a free sitemap.xml for a site that is few thousand pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Free unlimited-page sitemap generator? Is there a free tool out there that would let me make a free sitemap for about 3k page site? Thanks!


What does "all" mean in meta robots tag?

Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:               <meta name="robots" content="all" />      What does it do?


How to have One DNS and two different webhost?

I have one domain name i.e. example.com registered via godaddy.   * Now, I want to host my personal blog on blogger/blogspot with this url (i.e. on subdomain) "http://subdomain.example.com"   * And, I want to host my full website on different webhost (It is a   free host which supports all the PHP features) but it does not allow me to modify CNAME and A records of domain.   * Godaddy allows me to modify DNS Settings of my domain name   including CNAME and A Records but only if it's name servers are used. Now, Solve my Problem. I will be very much grateful to you.


404 error on a file/directory that exists?

We are using the vBulletin system. I have set it up so that it redirects 404 error's to a php page, so it follows the theme of the forum. However, if I go to a directory that exists (the admin directory to be precise), I get the 404 error. The folder in question is htaccess password protected, as well as leech protected. And this is happening to all .htaccess protected directory's My .htaccess is below:               RewriteEngine on          # 404 errors     ErrorDocument 404 /errors.php?do=404     ErrorDocument 403 /errors.php?do=403     ErrorDocument 500 /errors.php?do=500          # If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.     # RewriteBase /forum/          # If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.     # Options -MultiViews          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d          RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]          # Forum     RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d          RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]          # MVC     RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]          # Check MVC result     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]      Please could anyone help? Thank you.


If CSS is getting better why do big-brands websites still use tables for layout?

Everybody is referring to how content should be separated from layout and I am one strong advocate of that architecture, I find it easy too to use CSS to layout, much much easier than tables, But why oh why, do big names still use tables for layout? (Google Shopping is the biggest offender), eBay, Amazon, BaseCamp... great websites wouldn't you agree? I just need to understand their motives, so that I know for sure: am I missing something? is it really easier or faster or cheaper to use tables? Google shopping code snippet: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gWnab.png)


What can be messed up by letting the data flow into a Universal Analytics Account without fully customizing Universal Analytics first?

I haven't finished taking the "Digital Analytics Fundamentals" course yet; I'm concerned that if I don't understand everything before I implement it on my companies site that I'll permanently screw something up; I've used Google Analytics in the past, and I've noticed that you can only set a certain number of goals and I'm not even sure if you can change them after that. My boss is pushing for me to finish some tickets related to the marketing of our sites, but I'm concerned that if I do this too soon, I'm going to permanently screw something up with the Analytics account. In particular, today I'm going to add our website to the local business directory websites; some of these are free and some of these are not free. The following are local business directory websites I had in mind:   * Google Local Business Directory   * City Search   * Superpages.com   * Best of the Web Local Search   * patch.com   * merchantcirlcle   * yelp   * Bing Places for Business   * Yahoo Local Listing: Business Directory Listings If I understand correctly, a local business website is a referral source, which makes it sort of a Marketing Channel? And with Marketing Channels you have to monitor them to make sure that your getting your ROI on them, so you aren't paying for marketing (a listing) that isn't bringing you any business. I've seen several sites that advise you NOT to setup Google Analytics until you have your goals setup and implemented on your site. What parts are absolutely essential to setup first? (off the top of my head I can think of excluding people from within your own organization from the Analytics, and setting up goals)


Website traffic suddenly down, banned by google after adding around 700 products

I have a ecommerce website, phone accesories retail. In the first three months the google traffic risend natural and good up to 200 visitors per day (google search). At the begging of june, in a single day, i have added around 700 products. In the next days the google organic traffic dropped down dramatically. As seen in the webmaster tools screenshot: ![webmaster tools](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xgfiC.jpg) The description of new products was copy paste from supplier website with very little editing. After the dropdown i tried to clean the website of duplicate products. I have for the same product, different colors with diferent urls and same content. I've added canonical to point to one product for each set of colors. Adding those products slowed my website very much so i have changed my server to a VPS, and optimised the website speed. I thought to eliminate all reasons for witch website is down. The number of indexed pages in serp rised, but my organic traffic dropped. A few days before the drop i have added Structured Data markup for the page product. I removed the code around 24 june. ![structured data](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Lzef5.jpg) At this moment i have two solutions:   1. To put a noindex meta for the new products added.    2. To delete all products and not sell them any more. The margin is low for this products any way. What could be a reason for the drop and what should i do so my website regain it's google trust and reappear in SERPs? The website is: http://mobyl.ro


Number of hits report in Google Analytics

Can I create a custom report in google analytics to show me the total number of hits on a specific website? By "hit" I mean any item on the page that needs to load in order to view the page correctly. A better definition of what I mean can be found here: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hit.html


Check for duplicate 'id' values in a HTML page

I am developing a web application and I would like to check for duplicate `id` values in a HTML page. I am running the application on my local machine. There is a way to do that? P.S.: I am using Firefox and Firebug.


How to use Cloudflare and Namecheap email forwarding at the same time?

I want to use Cloudflare, and it requires that I use their nameservers. The problem is that I'm using some features from Namecheap like email forwarding, which will be disabled (if I didn't get it wrong) if I don't use Namecheap's nameservers. Any ideas?


Send and Receive SMS from my Website

The way I plan to use it is:   1. Have people send SMS to a number to vote.   2. On the backend (assuming that the data comes back to my Web server), I will display the voting results on my Web site.   3. After say 10 minutes, I would like to press a button on my Web site so ONE of the people who sent an SMS earlier receive an SMS saying that person is a winner. I'm an ASP .Net developer, so I just need an API to code against. One such company I saw that does this (but is limited to US) is:   * http://www.twilio.com/sms/ Do you know any international providers that are similar to Twilio SMS? I'm based in **Sydney, Australia**. I've looked through the discussion here but could not find any International provider that does what Twilio SMS does:   * How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? Thank you.


Using audio from youtube videos without the player visible

I want to embed certain videos from youtube on my site but I only need the audio from them so I want to set the iframe to `display:none` and use the api to control the play and pause with custom buttons. Is this breaking any rules?


Remove page from Search Result Bunch

When I do a branded search for a website the structure shows like ( see image ). I would love to remove Privacy Policy page or Manipulate the structure I see now ( showing pages I want to ). How I can do it? ![Example of what I were saying](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4oAeU.png) I already added robots - nosnippet meta tag to remove all rich snippets from a page, but it didn't work. Are there any other methods except removing page from indexation?


Primary domain in vps has been deactivated

This is my scenario: I have a vps with two domains (example1.com, example2.com). When I started with this vps I set `example1.com` as primary domain and the nameserver were configured with the pattern `ns1.example.com, ns2.example1.com`. The domains were brought in `name.com`. Across the time, I usually only work whit the domain `example2.com`, for that reason I stopped to pay `example1.com` anual registration and just keep the example2.com. But, today my vps is unreacheable because the main domain was deactivated last ago 23th. I never imagined that it could affect my server. So, I am so worried because I don't know if rebuild the vps is the solution here because I could lost my data. Can you take me to the right direction in order to recover my vps?


How to start and encourage an online community?

We're looking to add a forum/online community area to our website. Previous attempts of encouraging comments and interaction have failed and the community tends to die a death eventually. So, I've sat back and had a think of how to encourage people to comment and interact within our forum/community (heavily influenced by the stack style!): **1. Ease of signing up:** People are lazy in adding new accounts etc so just like stackoverflow, I would use the "sign in with facebook, linkedin, twitter" etc etc. **2. Encouraging people to comment/interact:** A points/score system that would reward users for commenting/interacting with the community (a more basic version of stack). An addition would be if a user reaches certain milestones they would receive a % discount on services. **3. New content from us:** As well as users commenting, I think a strong presence from us in posting new content/threads/comments would be needed. Has anyone got any suggestions to add to the list above to encourage interaction within the community?


Using disqus for a website (question on SERP and backlink)

I am building a website and am trying to decide between writing my own commenting system and using Disqus. One of the main deciding factors is that (obviously), I want comments left on my page to be show on SERPS. However, I remember reading somewhere that Disqus loads comments into a page using AJAX - and therefore the comments are "invisible" as far as Googlebot and other SE crawlers are concerned. Could someone confirm or refute this? The other question I have is about whether (as a commenter), When I place a comment on another website using Disqus (including any links I may add to my comment), do the links in my comment count as a back link (in other words are they "dofollow" or "nofollow" links)?


mod_caching work but file not matching because it adding the 443 port in cached file

The config file: CacheRoot /var/cache/mod_cache CacheEnable disk / CacheDirLevels 5 CacheDirLength 2 CacheMinFileSize 0 CacheIgnoreHeaders Set- Cookie The url EX: (https://exemple.domain.com/content.png ) In the cache file under /var/cache/mod_cache I see: EX: url......domain.com:443/content.png instead of url......domain.com/content.png When I reload, the url , It reload the file .png. BUT IF I reload, the url with the 443 ...domain.com:443/content.png the caching is working fine. Any idea why mod_cache add the port 443 the the path in the cached file ? Or how to fixe this mismatch? Thanks


How to know that my site is getting index/rank by search engine

As per subject, anyone can tell me how to check that my site is getting index/rank by search engine(e.g. google, yahoo)?


Search query from Google Webmaster Tools isn't found in my SERP

I write a blog at `blogger.com`. I am using Google Webmaster Tools on my blog. In my Webmaster tool dashboard, I can see that a particular search query has an average position of 5. See the attached screenshot below for reference: ![Webmaster Tools-> Search Traffic-> Search Queries](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PtKrD.jpg) However, when I search the exact search query in Google, I don't see my blog in the results (at least not in the first 4 pages). Can anyone explain this to me? Or am I misinterpreting the Webmaster Tools data?


Getting the redirected page to show up in SERP instead of the target

I have a site that is listed on a sitebuilder site with their own domain which in this example lets call this `siteA.com/myaccountnumber/index.html`. I've purchased a domain `siteB.com` and I've setup a redirect from `B` to `A`... But I would like Google to index `siteB.com` rather than the one that is being redirected too using a standard 301.